· Private foundation
S Gary Spicer Sr 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB | $6,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCH | $5,600 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ATHENA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT OF FLORIDA THE | $2,500 |
| THE KIRK H AND JOANN P GIBSON FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH | $2,000 |
| ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ADRIAN COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $1,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| ALPHA TAU OMEGA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE WAR MEMORIAL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DADETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +33%
- GPGROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC2× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +67%
- ACADRIAN COLLEGE5× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR DICKSON COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DICKSONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $7k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
How this is measured
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 163 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ADRIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
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: Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Joanne Nicolay Foundation · Thomas and Carol Cracchiolo Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Mary I McLeod Foundation · Raymond M & Jane E Cracchiolo Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · McGregor Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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