Tennessee · Private foundation
Speer 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.
- $8.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $141M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Speer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 | 59 | $8.6M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $6.8M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $7.6M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $8.0M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $7.2M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $7.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater St Petersburg Inc | $6,600,000 | 5 | 9% |
| The Presidential Prayer Team | $2,892,000 | 6 | 56% |
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $2,600,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Christ Presbyterian Church Inc | $1,913,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Tennessee Wildlife Federation Inc | $1,532,500 | 6 | 8% |
| Nashville Zoo Inc | $1,350,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Practical Christianity Foundation | $1,180,000 | 6 | 98% |
| Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| US Institute Against Human Trafficking Inc | $875,000 | 4 | 83% |
| Saint Thomas Health Foundations | $800,000 | 4 | 5% |
Show all 114 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Speer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Carolyn Smith Foundation
How this is measured
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About Speer Foundation
- How much does Speer Foundation give?
- Speer Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $8,678,672 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Speer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Religion (21%), Health (12%).
- Who are Speer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Young Mens Christian Association of Greater St Petersburg Inc ($6.6M), The Presidential Prayer Team ($2.9M), Nashville Rescue Mission ($2.6M).
- Does Speer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Speer Foundation 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 Speer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hca Healthcare Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is Speer Foundation based?
- Speer Foundation is based in TN.
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