· Private foundation
Spencer Education Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| EVAN LONG CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| JACOB SHIVELY CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| LUKE MARTIN CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| JACE CASSITY CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| JOSEPH HUMRICHOUS CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| KAIYA MONEY CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| GWENETH MORGAN CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| RYAN TRACY CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| BROOKLY RIPPERDAN CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| SAMUEL CLINE CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| SOFIA CARTER CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| NATHANIEL POWELL CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| GRACE HENDERSON CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| ALLISON POWELL CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
| KADY GRAVES CO PNC BANK NA | $2,364 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
117 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 117 since wound down; 75 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFranklin College of Indiana3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +36%
- BUButler University3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +39%
- UOUniversity of Indianapolis3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
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…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
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.
Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 365 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Spencer Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spencer Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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