Indiana · Private foundation
Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $247k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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 | 18 | $247k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $215k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $234k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $263k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $230k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $239k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $236k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $230k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlan Christian Youth Center Inc | $324,200 | 9 | 23% |
| Woodburn Christian Childrens Home Inc | $155,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Drive Alive Inc | $135,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Soulmedic Media Group Inc | $128,000 | 8 | 2% |
| New Mercies Ministries Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Inc | $97,500 | 7 | 2% |
| The Power House Alliance Inc | $85,000 | 9 | 9% |
| Youth for Christ of Northern Indiana Inc | $73,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Christian Community Health Care Inc | $65,600 | 6 | 14% |
| Hearcare Connection Inc | $56,500 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($441k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn 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: Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · M E Raker Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · McMillen Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Surack Family Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation · Parkview Health System Inc
How this is measured
About Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn
- How much does Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn give?
- Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn reported 18 grants totaling $246,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (26%), Religion (24%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Harlan Christian Youth Center Inc ($324k), Woodburn Christian Childrens Home Inc ($155k), Drive Alive Inc ($136k).
- Does Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc, English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn, Edward M Wilson Foundation.
- Where is Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn based?
- Mary C & Perry F Spencer Fdn is based in IN.
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