Texas · Private foundation
Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation
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.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $64,450
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $106M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $393k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $5.0M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $4.8M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $5.2M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $4.7M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $4.8M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $1.7M | 95% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $180k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of the Incarnate Word | $6,697,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Texas Agricultural Land Trust | $1,911,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Trinity University | $1,735,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Choose to Succeed Inc | $1,050,000 | 5 | n/a |
| IDEA Public Schools | $732,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hill Country Youth Ranch | $550,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc | $500,000 | 6 | 15% |
| Texas Biomedical Research Institute | $410,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Cibolo Wilderness | $362,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Riverwalk Education Foundation Inc | $340,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · The Ewing Halsell Foundation · Mays Family Foundation · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Fb Doane Foundation · The Jeanie Wyatt Family Foundation · The Nancy Wood Moorman Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600 · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992
How this is measured
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About Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation
- How much does Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation give?
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $4,960,849 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (61%), Environment (18%), Animals (7%).
- Who are Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: University of the Incarnate Word ($6.7M), Texas Agricultural Land Trust ($1.9M), Trinity University ($1.7M).
- Does Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, The Ewing Halsell Foundation, Mays Family Foundation.
- Where is Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation based?
- Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation is based in TX.
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