How much did MARY C & PERRY F SPENCER FDN grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of MARY C & PERRY F SPENCER FDN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $43k
$10k–50k10 grants · $172k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

NEW MERCIES MINISTRIES$35,000
HARLAN CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER$35,000
TIMEVISTA THEATER INC$22,250
WOODBURN CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME$15,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC$15,000
ALLEN COUNTY FT WAYNE HISTORICAL SO$10,000
POWER HOUSE YOUTH CENTER$10,000
ASSOCIATED CHURCHES OF FT WAYNE IND$10,000
MY NEXT STEP$10,000
HUMANE FORT WAYNE$10,000
YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC$8,000
DRIVE ALIVE INC$8,000
FIRE & LIGHT PRODUCTIONS$5,000
AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY$5,000
SUMMIT CITY THEATRE WORKS$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 31 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+224%

Still filing today

55%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

HC
HARLAN CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $284k · revenue +41%
SM
SOULMEDIC MEDIA GROUP
6× · 2017–2022 · $93k · revenue +330%
NM
NEW MERCIES MINISTRIES
3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +199%

Funded once

SR
SCHERER RESOURCES INC
one grant, 2018 · $30k
HC
HEADWATERS CHURCH NEW MERCIES MINISTRIES
one grant, 2021 · $15k
BH
BOTH HANDS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +225%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Turning Point Inc

Professional counseling/therapy services to individuals, couples, and families in Northest Indiana. Goal health and healing through a biopsychosocial-spiritual theoretical approach.

Health

Fresh Start Outreach Ministry Inc

It is the mission of Fresh Start Ministry to be the hands and feet of God by serving others in need in Monroe County. Our volunteers will show God's love by providing free haircuts, clothing, meals, and other resources that are needed.

Human Services

Living Well in Wabash County

Living well in wabash county serves one in four wabash county residents of all ages while fostering senior independence with the mission to assist the citizens of wabash county in meeting their social, physical, economic, and mobility…

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Tear Down the Walls Ministries Inc

Meeting the physical and spiritual needs of the homeless as well as mentoring youth in the greater Indianapolis area. We are practicing Christian community development in under resourced neighborhoods through housing referrals, urban…

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Hoosier Outreach Inc

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Allen County Fairgrounds Inc

Conduct annual agriculture fair and other fairs, expos, exhibits, etc. related to agriculture, horticulture, anumal husbandry, and home economics, etc.

Recreation & Sports

434 Ministries Inc

We offer resources to prevent and end homelessness in and around Harrison County, Indiana.

Housing & Shelter

Meals On Wheels Association of Howard County Indiana Inc

Meals on Wheels of Howard County focuses on providing affordable or free meals to the shut-ins or medically recuperating residents of Howard County, Indiana. Meals on Wheels provides hot and cold meals that are healthy and affordable.…

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Family Life Center of Greene County Indiana Inc

Charitable distribution of clothing, food and household items.

Human Services

725 Ministries

The mission of 725 ministries is to help establish personal connections between caring christians and young adults. community members have recognized the need for loving and stable relationships in the lives of the next generation.

Religion

Made Strong Ministries Inc

Made Strong is a nonprofit organization that serves people of all ages, genders, and orientations who work, or have worked, in any area of the adult entertainment industry. We offer resources and support for our client's health, safety,…

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Allen County Christmas Bureau Inc

Assistance for needy families

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Services of Allen County Inc and the most unlike its peers is East Allen County Schools Educational Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/32

the rest of the field

156/1,977

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

21/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$956,402Youth Development$372,700Religion$228,000Human Services$180,600Health$87,200Community Improvement$23,070Arts & Culture$23,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of GreaterIN39.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Flora Dale Krouse Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation MARY C & PERRY F SPENCER FDN funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HARLAN CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 352125040 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HARLAN CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn?

Find your warmest path to Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARY C & PERRY F SPENCER FDN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn?

More from the funding graph

MARY C & PERRY F SPENCER FDN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn?

More from the funding graph