Illinois · Private foundation
Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation
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.
- $927k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $95,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $797k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $799k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $790k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $625k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $487k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $399k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Community Foundation | $160,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Congregation Bnai Brith | $128,600 | 6 | n/a |
| Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra | $105,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Direct Relief | $103,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sharsheret Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Minding Your Mind | $87,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Family Service of Lake County | $86,200 | 3 | 2% |
| Candles | $85,995 | 4 | 9% |
| PADS Lake County Inc | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($897k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Towbes Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc · James S Bower Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · California Community Foundation · Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
How this is measured
Compare Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation
- How much does Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation give?
- Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $926,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Human Services (19%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Chicago Community Foundation ($160k), Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ($145k), Congregation Bnai Brith ($129k).
- Does Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Florence and Laurence Spungen Family 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 Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Circle of Service Foundation.
- Where is Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation based?
- Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation is based in IL.
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