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Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$80M
Granted FY2024still arriving
138
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$140MPhilanthropy$77MPublic Benefit$43MArts & Culture$29MHealth$24MYouth Development$15MInternational$15MCivil Rights$9.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 138 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k60 grants · $6.6M
  • $250k+58 grants · $73M
$200,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONORS TRUST$5,000,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$5,000,000
DONORS TRUST$5,000,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$5,000,000
DONORS TRUST$5,000,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$3,500,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$3,500,000
DONORS TRUST$3,000,000
INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S FORUM$2,500,000
MAYO CLINIC$2,000,000
THE JACKSON LABORATORY$2,000,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$2,000,000
DONORS TRUST$2,000,000
THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES$2,000,000
PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC$1,250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%US ARMY 5TH ARMY ASSOCIATION: $75k → 16%OPERATION RECOVERY: $50k → 16%NATIONAL FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $75k → 8%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $100k → 11%NATIONAL FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE: $75k → 8%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $100k → 11%NATIONAL FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE: $60k → 8%JAMES W FOLEY LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $50k → 11%NATIONAL FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE: $50k → 8%NATIONAL FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE: $25k → 8%TIDES CENTER: $350k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%BOOST OTHERS INC: $50k → 6%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND YMCA: $50k → 11%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND YMCA: $50k → 11%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND YMCA: $25k → 11%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $5k → 11%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $50k → 14%ISLAND CONNECTIONS: $5k → 11%REACH EDUCATION INC: $25k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $25k → 14%REACH EDUCATION INC: $20k → 14%CENTRONIA: $100k → 14%FLOC FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $15k → 14%FLOC FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $15k → 14%FLOC FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $5k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 14%CAPITAL CLUBHOUSE: $150k → 14%CAPITAL CLUBHOUSE: $75k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$283M · 191 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

191 repeat relationships: 94 still active in FY2024, 97 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

191
111

Total granted

$283M
$28M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+28%

Still filing today

88%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MS
    MASTERS SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2024 · $28M · revenue +43% · 34% of their budget
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $15M · revenue +12%
  • WHEATON COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $12M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • DM
    DANIEL MORGAN GRADUATE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $5.4M · revenue -101% · 35% of their budget
  • DM
    DANIEL MORGAN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NATIONAL SECURITY
    one grant, 2019 · $4.6M
  • HF
    HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $2.5M
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
5
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
10
Institute for Experiential Learning Inc

The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…

Education
11
Allbritton Journalism Institute

Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.

Education
12
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Genbiz Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

265 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 265 of the 332 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

41
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
257/265
Grantees still filing
181/265
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $33,500,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYMASTERS SCHOOL: $28,325,000 · OtherMASTERS SCHOOLDANIEL MORGAN GRADUATE SCHOOL: $5,400,000 · OtherNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $5,150,000 · Other+98 more: $79,186,095 · Other+98 moreDonors Trust Inc: $66,700,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust IncTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION IN…Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation For Excellen…+7 more: $5,485,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreWHEATON COLLEGE: $12,115,000 · EducationWHEATON COLLEGEHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $12,000,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEMYSA SCHOOL INC: $4,600,000 · EducationMYSA SCHOOL INCINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $3,130,000 · EducationBEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $3,003,000 · EducationTHE GLOUCESTER INSTITUTE INC: $2,600,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP: $2,300,000 · Education+26 more: $19,238,195 · Education+26 moreMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $9,850,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RES…AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN …VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,810,000 · Arts & CultureVICTIMS O…PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC: $2,500,000 · Arts & CulturePENTAGON …CULTURE WISE STUDIES INC: $2,300,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURE W…THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM: $1,986,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTE…FREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC: $1,950,000 · Arts & CultureFREE TO C…MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $1,900,000 · Arts & CultureMOVING PI…AMERICAN PRIVATE RADIO: $1,500,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $2,695,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $15,001,000 · Public BenefitCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $3,805,000 · Public BenefitINFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $1,000,000 · Public Benefit+6 more: $2,150,000 · Public BenefitTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $4,905,000 · HealthHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $4,420,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $3,440,000 · HealthCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC: $3,310,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $2,000,000 · HealthMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $1,600,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,025,000 · Health+10 more: $3,805,000 · HealthMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $5,650,000 · InternationalASIA AMERICA INITIATIVE: $1,625,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SWISS FOUNDATION: $1,580,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $975,000 · InternationalFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $935,000 · InternationalEARTH University Foundation Inc: $625,000 · InternationalCERTELL INC: $610,000 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $600,000 · InternationalINVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM FOUNDATION: $525,000 · International+4 more: $1,400,000 · International
Other$151,561,095Philanthropy$82,185,000Education$58,986,195Arts & Culture$32,491,000Public Benefit$24,956,000Health$24,505,000International$14,525,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDonors Trust Inc: $66,700,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetMASTERS SCHOOL: $28,325,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $15,001,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $12,115,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $12,000,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $9,850,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $5,650,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetDANIEL MORGAN GRADUATE SCHOOL: $5,400,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $5,150,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $5,000,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education: $5,000,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $4,905,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMYSA SCHOOL INC: $4,600,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $4,420,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $4,000,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $3,805,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetRISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES: $3,600,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $3,440,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $3,410,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC: $3,310,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $3,130,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetBEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $3,003,000 over 6y, 99% of budgetINFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetVICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,810,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $2,600,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetTHE GLOUCESTER INSTITUTE INC: $2,600,000 over 5y, 80% of budgetCULTURE WISE STUDIES INC: $2,300,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP: $2,300,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY SALUTES USA INC: $2,200,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetTeneo Network Inc: $2,175,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM: $1,986,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC: $1,950,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $1,900,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetCODE 3 ASSOCIATION: $1,890,000 over 3y, 93% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $1,820,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetLaw Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $1,700,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetJOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $1,650,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetASIA AMERICA INITIATIVE: $1,625,000 over 6y, 52% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $1,600,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN SWISS FOUNDATION: $1,580,000 over 6y, 64% of budgetAMERICAN PRIVATE RADIO: $1,500,000 over 4y, 59% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBULLIS SCHOOL: $1,475,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $1,400,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $1,350,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $1,300,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Donors Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds DANIEL MORGAN GRADUATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI ↗
  • Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds MYSA SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
  • Who funds CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds THE GLOUCESTER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CULTURE WISE STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP ↗
  • Who funds OUR COMMUNITY SALUTES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Teneo Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ↗
  • Who funds FREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donors Trust IncThe Lynde and Harry B…Sarah Scaife Foundati…Bradley Impact Fund I…The Searle Freedom Tr…Adolph Coors Foundati…Colket Family Foundat…The Morris and Gwendo…Charles Koch Foundati…Holman Foundation IncJohn William Pope Fou…Greater Washington Co…
Donors Trust IncVA96.9× affinity61 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Searle Freedom Trust · Adolph Coors Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · Holman Foundation Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Sister States of Maryland Inc: 92% of income from government
  • National Park Trust Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • National History Day Inc: 13% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries: 2% of income from government
  • Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 332 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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