Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Spencer Education Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $141k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,364
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,364
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 100
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Spencer Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 75 | $141k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 73 | $129k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $140k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $145k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 79 | $136k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 100 | $131k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $121k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $123k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $114,306 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $79,320 | 3 | n/a |
| Franklin College of Indiana | $15,189 | 3 | 0% |
| Butler University | $13,839 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Indianapolis | $9,956 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Evansville | $9,530 | 3 | 0% |
| Manchester University Inc | $8,494 | 3 | 0% |
| DePauw University | $5,407 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Saint Francis of Fort Wayne Indiana Inc | $4,752 | 3 | 0% |
| Oral Roberts University | $4,118 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $114,306 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $79,320 | 3 | n/a |
| Franklin College of Indiana | $15,189 | 3 | 0% |
| Butler University | $13,839 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Indianapolis | $9,956 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Evansville | $9,530 | 3 | 0% |
| Manchester University Inc | $8,494 | 3 | 0% |
| DePauw University | $5,407 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Saint Francis of Fort Wayne Indiana Inc | $4,752 | 3 | 0% |
| Oral Roberts University | $4,118 | 3 | 0% |
| Olivet Nazarene University | $4,118 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Northwestern Ohio | $3,978 | 3 | 0% |
| Ancilla Domini College | $3,718 | 2 | 0% |
| University of South Alabama | $3,552 | 3 | n/a |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | $3,407 | 2 | 0% |
| Indiana Wesleyan University | $2,926 | 2 | 0% |
| Huntington University | $2,407 | 2 | 0% |
| Eckerd College | $1,326 | 1 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $1,326 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornerstone University | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Hanover College | $1,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Crown College | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Anderson University Inc | $855 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 341 recipients with no EIN on record ($926k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Spencer Education Foundation 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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Folds of Honor Foundation · Wimmer Scholarship Fund · Guyneth B Webster Scholarship Fund 1045000718 · Jp Crain Family Scholarship Pfdn Paulding County Area Foundation · Steuben County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Verizon Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Columbus Foundation
How this is measured
About Spencer Education Foundation
- How much does Spencer Education Foundation give?
- Spencer Education Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $140,521 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 100 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Spencer Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (97%), Health (3%), Religion (0%).
- Who are Spencer Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indiana University School of Medicine ($114k), Trustees of Purdue University ($79k), Franklin College of Indiana ($15k).
- Does Spencer Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Spencer Education Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Spencer Education Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Council of Independent Colleges, Folds of Honor Foundation.
- Where is Spencer Education Foundation based?
- Spencer Education Foundation is based in PA.
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