· Private foundation
E L Spencer Jr Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAMC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHRIST CITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| MERCY MEDICAL MINISTRY & CLINIC | $18,000 |
| LAKEVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH | $18,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY INC | $14,000 |
| AUBURN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EXODUS RANCH | $2,500 |
| ALABAMA SHERIFF'S GIRL'S RANCH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,200 |
| THE WAY 2 SERVE | $2,000 |
| CARE HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +51%
- UWUNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +2%
- FBFOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- EAEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +328%
- LBLAKEVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH YOUTH CAMPone grant, 2024 · $4k
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
The woman's missionary union foundation was organized for the purpose of motivating and facilitating the making of gifts, donations, and benefactions for the advancement, promotion and maintenance of woman's missionary union and the…
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
The mission of united way of west alabama is to promote the general welfare of the citizens of west alabama by: raising funds, on an annual basis, to assist the effective delivery of health and human care programs and services, allocating…
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
To support the university of north alabama in its educational endeavors.
As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CARE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AUBURN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Exodus Ranch ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST ALABAMA SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds EAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAY 2 SERVE INC F/K/A THE WAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Staff Mission Fac Inc ↗
- Who funds Mision Vida Nueva ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization E L Spencer Jr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E L Spencer Jr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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