Ohio · Private foundation
Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn
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.
- $131k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 12 | $131k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $130k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $125k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $150k | 90% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $140k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $135k | 73% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $124k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $128k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Boy Scouts of America Mecklenburg County Council | $66,666 | 2 | 1% |
| North Carolina Conservation Network | $57,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Carter Center Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Year Up Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern Coalition for Social Justice | $32,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Rye Nature Center | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $28,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte | $27,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($310k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Presbyterian Hospital · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · A Caring Community Inc · Albemarle Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
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About Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn
- How much does Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn give?
- Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn reported 12 grants totaling $131,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (22%), Education (22%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southern Environmental Law Center ($105k), Boy Scouts of America Mecklenburg County Council ($67k), North Carolina Conservation Network ($57k).
- Does Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn 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 Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Presbyterian Hospital, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn based?
- Martha & Spencer Love Fdtn is based in OH.
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