How much does Spencer Charitable Fund give?

Spencer Charitable Fund reported 7 grants totaling $223,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does Spencer Charitable Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (51%), Education (40%), Philanthropy (6%).

Who are Spencer Charitable Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Greenwich Hospital ($455k), The Trustees of the Smith College ($120k), Cornell University ($120k).

Does Spencer Charitable Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Spencer Charitable Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Spencer Charitable Fund based?

Spencer Charitable Fund is based in NY.

Spencer Charitable Fund

Spencer Charitable Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Spencer Charitable Fund

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$223k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$534kEducation$420kPhilanthropy$60kArts & Culture$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kFood & Nutrition$5kHuman Services$500Other$0

02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k4 grants · $13k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k2 grants · $200k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$513k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
White Plains Hospital Fdtn	$150,000
Greenwich Hospital	$50,000
Univ of Rhode Island Foundation	$10,000
Mount Sinai School of Medicine	$5,000
Smith College	$5,000
The Andrew McDonough B Foundation	$2,000
Visiting Nurse Service	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+83%

Still filing today

80%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

GH
GREENWICH HOSPITAL
9× · 2017–2026 · $455k · revenue +52%
TT
THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
9× · 2017–2026 · $120k · revenue +52%
Cornell University
7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +59%

Funded once

VH
VNS Health Care
one grant, 2023 · $10k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
AO
ARTS ON THE LAKE INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +108%

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.

04Its field

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.

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai; the most unlike its peers is Arts On the Lake Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

12/14

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$457,000Education$396,000Other$332,000Community Improvement$60,000International$10,000Arts & Culture$7,500Human Services$2,500

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spencer Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spencer Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The camps

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By state

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