Virginia · Private foundation
Spahr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,266
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,266
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $439k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Spahr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $21k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $20k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $22k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $14k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $12k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $13k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Education$57kInternational$16kPhilanthropy$11kHealth$10kArts & Culture$5kRecreation & Sports$3k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kidsave International Inc | $13,456 | 3 | 0% |
| Emmanuel College | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The University of Cincinnati Foundation | $10,619 | 2 | 0% |
| Buck Institute for Research on Aging | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New York Opera Society Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Tennis for Life | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ukraine Volya Foundation | $2,927 | 1 | 4% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
About Spahr Foundation
- How much does Spahr Foundation give?
- Spahr Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $21,266 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Spahr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), International (16%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Spahr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Kidsave International Inc ($13k), Emmanuel College ($13k), The University of Cincinnati Foundation ($11k).
- Does Spahr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Spahr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Spahr Foundation based?
- Spahr Foundation is based in VA.
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