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Spencer Educational Foundation Inc

To facilitate the funding of tomorrow's risk management and insurance leaders through scholarships, grants, internship opportunities, on and off campus experiential learning, and support of risk management curricula.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
122
Itemized grants FY2025
70
Organizations funded FY2024
46%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$2.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$82,500
Organizations funded a year
6 to 70
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
35
Total assets, FY2025
$9.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Spencer Educational Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $442k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementMembership BenefitOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving117$2.0M53%
FY202470$955k46%
FY202357$771k58%
FY202243$605k47%
FY202148$668k69%
FY202036$681k83%
FY201917$511k76%
FY20186$235k67%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.9MScience & Tech$705kEmployment$489kCommunity Improvement$122kYouth Development$88kHealth$80kPhilanthropy$38kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
IL
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MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
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CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
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NM
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AR
TN
NC
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DC
OK
LA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc$567,54751%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$409,14380%
Saint Joseph's University$357,50050%
Gamma Iota Sigma$200,00064%
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation$100,00040%
University of North Texas$99,3695n/a
Vcuvcu Health Campus$88,4753n/a
Florida State University$84,7001n/a
Illinois State University Foundation$81,30040%
Fisk University$78,35440%
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All grantees of Spencer Educational Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc$567,54751%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$409,14380%
Saint Joseph's University$357,50050%
Gamma Iota Sigma$200,00064%
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation$100,00040%
University of North Texas$99,3695n/a
Vcuvcu Health Campus$88,4753n/a
Florida State University$84,7001n/a
Illinois State University Foundation$81,30040%
Fisk University$78,35440%
Stony Brook Foundation Inc$74,50030%
Naaia Foundation$73,593420%
Appalachian State University$66,2073n/a
The Brooklyn College Foundation Inc$66,00020%
DePauw University$65,99220%
University of Houston- Downtown$65,9863n/a
Brenau University Inc$65,50020%
Dominican University New York$64,00010%
Appalachian State University Foundation Inc$62,75030%
University of St Thomas$60,91930%
Mercy University$60,00030%
Bowie State University Foundation Inc$60,00021%
The University of Akron$54,3702n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado$54,1003n/a
University of Colorado Foundation$51,81030%
Faulkner University$50,00010%
Society of Certified Insurance Service Representatives Inc$50,00021%
New York University$50,00020%
University of Hartford$50,00020%
Northern Arizona University Foundation$48,76220%
Morgan State University$48,5002n/a
Chapman University$47,50010%
University of Nevada Reno Foundation$46,20030%
Southeastern Louisiana University$45,5322n/a
Risk & Insurance Education Alliance (The Alliance)$45,0001n/a
University of Chicago$40,00010%
The Actuarial Foundation$40,00021%
HBCU Foundation Inc$37,5003n/a
Dallas Fort Worth (Dfw) International Airport Board$37,5005n/a
State University of New York College at Purchase$37,5002n/a
Port of Portland$37,5005n/a
Aes US Services$37,5005n/a
Oregon Health & Science University$36,0005n/a
Bowling Green State University$35,8292n/a
Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc$35,49850%
American Risk & Insurance Assoc Inc$35,00024%
Tufts University$33,6461n/a
Le Moyne College$33,08030%
University of Georgia$33,0004n/a
New York Institute of Technology$32,50020%
Cbiz Inc$30,3204n/a
Henry Schein$30,0004n/a
University Risk Management and Insurance Association$30,00031%
Con Am Management Corp$30,0004n/a
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business Foundation$30,00011%
Fayetteville State University$30,00014%
Sp Plus Corporation$30,0004n/a
Match Group Inc$29,5004n/a
Portland State University Foundation$28,75010%
Bradley University$28,55010%
Sierra Nevada Corporation$28,5074n/a
University of Denver$28,25020%
National African-American Insurance Association$27,00021%
University of Cincinnati$25,5003n/a
Eastern Kentucky University$25,0001n/a
Eureka College$25,00010%
Old Dominion University Research Foundation$25,00010%
New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc$25,00010%
The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Brainhealth$25,0001n/a
Insurance Knowledge Evolution$25,0001n/a
University of Texas at El Paso$25,0001n/a
Canisius University$25,00010%
University of Missouri - Columbia$25,0001n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri$25,0001n/a
University of Central Arkansas$24,0001n/a
Old Dominion University Educational Foundation$24,00020%
The University of Akron Foundation$22,71010%
Martin County Board of County Commissioners$22,5003n/a
Flow Control Group$22,5003n/a
Kite Realty Group$22,5003n/a
Adecco Employment Services$22,5003n/a
Lvmh Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc$22,5003n/a
Harbor Group Management Co LLC$22,5003n/a
Columbia Sportswear Company$22,5003n/a
Richmond National Group$22,5003n/a
Tarleton State University Foundation$22,33710%
Project Invest$21,5001n/a
Shenandoah University$21,50010%
Growmark Inc$21,1753n/a
Missouri State University$21,1311n/a
New Mexico State University$21,0943n/a
Block Communications Inc$20,7853n/a
Campus Auxiliary Services Inc at State University College Geneseo New York$20,68310%
University of South Florida Foundation Inc$20,18920%
Drake University$20,11010%
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Savannah State University$20,0001n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison$20,0001n/a
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York$19,67510%
Insuring Mi Future$19,500139%
Fayetteville State University National Alumni Association$19,000116%
The Academy of Producer Ins Studies Inc$18,75013%
State of West Virginia West Virginia University$18,1961n/a
University of Wisconsin Foundation$17,50010%
The University of Texas at Dallas$16,5001n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$16,4801n/a
Sage Software Inc$15,0002n/a
KHS&S Contractors$15,0002n/a
Clark Equipment$15,0002n/a
Hearst$15,0002n/a
Varsity Brands Holding Inc Dba Varsity Spirit LLC (Ncanda)$15,0002n/a
William Marsh Rice University$15,00020%
Parsons Corporation$15,0002n/a
Indiana State University$15,0001n/a
VyStar Credit Union$15,00020%
YMCA of Snohomish County$15,0002n/a
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Term$15,0002n/a
University of Mississippi$15,0001n/a
Dfa Dairy Brands$15,0002n/a
East Carolina University$15,0001n/a
University of Central Ar Foundation Inc$15,00020%
John F Kennedy Medical Center Foundation Inc$15,0002n/a
Diocese of St Augustine$15,0002n/a
Aetna Inc$15,0002n/a
DC Public Schools$15,0001n/a
Stony Brook University$15,00010%
Culver Franchising System LLC$15,0002n/a
Safelite Group Inc$14,8902n/a
St Mary's University$14,40010%
Oregon State University Foundation$13,76520%
The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc$13,50010%
Central Washington University Foundation$13,00010%
East Carolina University$12,0001n/a
East Carolina University Foundation Inc$12,00010%
La Salle University$11,48720%
Middle Tennessee State University$11,3501n/a
Lincoln University$11,00010%
University of Houston$11,0001n/a
The Howard University$10,00010%
Organization of Latino Actuaries$10,0001n/a
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation$10,00010%
Professional Liability Underwriting Society$10,00010%
Florida State University Research Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Suffolk University$10,00010%
Ball State University$10,0001n/a
Urmia$10,0001n/a
Jackson State University$10,0002n/a
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire$10,0001n/a
University of Wisconsin-Madison for Benefit of Actuarial Club$10,0001n/a
University of St Thomas$10,00010%
St John's University New York$10,00010%
Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania$10,0001n/a
Georgia State University Foundation Inc$10,00010%
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley$10,0001n/a
University of Houston$9,9751n/a
Plus Foundation$9,50014%
Milwaukee School of Engineering$8,86410%
National Association of Black Compliance and Risk Management Pro$8,00015%
Fs Insurance Agency$7,5001n/a
Evonik Corporation$7,5001n/a
Syneos Health LLC$7,5001n/a
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency$7,5001n/a
Posillico Civil Inc$7,5001n/a
Electrolux North America Inc$7,5001n/a
Chobani LLC$7,5001n/a
Bonaventure Holdings LLC$7,5001n/a
McKesson Corporation$7,5001n/a
Oklahoma City Community College$7,5001n/a
Csa America Standards Inc$7,50010%
Matson$7,5001n/a
Cotton Holdings$7,5001n/a
Palo Alto Networks Inc$7,5001n/a
Nustar Energy$7,5001n/a
Top Golf USA Inc$7,5001n/a
Diocese of St Augustine$7,5001n/a
Overhead Door Corporation$7,5001n/a
Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (Lvmh)$7,5001n/a
Mic Global$7,5001n/a
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Arlington$7,5001n/a
Dollar Tree$7,5001n/a
Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc (Aeg)$7,5001n/a
Bernards Bros Inc$7,5001n/a
Retail Properties of Americarpai Holding$7,5001n/a
Panda Restaurant Group$7,5001n/a
Portland General Electric Company$7,5001n/a
Adecco Group US Charities Inc$7,50011%
Key Corp$7,5001n/a
Acuity Brands Inc dba Lithonia Lighting$7,5001n/a
University of Oklahoma$7,5001n/a
Sierra Space Corporation$7,5001n/a
Syneos Health Inc$7,5001n/a
REV Group$7,5001n/a
Burnham Holdings Inc$7,5001n/a
Nichols College$7,50010%
Equity Residential$7,5001n/a
City of Stockton$7,5001n/a
Troy University$7,5001n/a
Vanderbilt University$7,50010%
Als Group LLC$7,5001n/a
Aetna Inc (Cvs Health)$7,5001n/a
Mastercard$7,5001n/a
Ag Processing Inc$7,5001n/a
Ohio Insurance Institute on Behalf of Insuring Ohio Futures$7,5001n/a
Western National Group$7,5001n/a
Metropolis Capital Holdings LLC$7,5001n/a
Equinix$7,5001n/a
Prologis Inc$7,5001n/a
Pccp LLC$7,3531n/a
Arizona State University$7,2731n/a
Suny Oswego$7,24011%
Cotton Holdings Inc$5,6701n/a
Sally Beauty$5,5001n/a
Mississippi State University$5,4001n/a
Board of the University of Alabama$5,0001n/a
University at Albany Bioscience Development Corporation$5,00010%
Indiana State University Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Bryant University$5,00010%
The University of Texas at El Paso - Woody L Hunt College of Business$5,0001n/a
Butler University$5,00010%
Michigan State University$5,0001n/a
Washington State University$5,0001n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$5,0001n/a
Rider University$5,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Spencer Educational Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRisk and Insurance Management Society Inc: $567,547 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $409,143 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Joseph's University: $357,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGamma Iota Sigma: $200,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetCal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIllinois State University Foundation: $81,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFisk University: $78,354 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStony Brook Foundation Inc: $74,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNaaia Foundation: $73,593 over 4y, 20% of budgetThe Brooklyn College Foundation Inc: $66,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDePauw University: $65,992 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrenau University Inc: $65,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDominican University New York: $64,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian State University Foundation Inc: $62,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $60,919 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy University: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBowie State University Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $51,810 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFaulkner University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSociety of Certified Insurance Service Representatives Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Hartford: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Arizona University Foundation: $48,762 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChapman University: $47,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $46,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Actuarial Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Inc: $35,498 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Risk & Insurance Assoc Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetLe Moyne College: $33,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Institute of Technology: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Risk Management and Insurance Association: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetVirginia Commonwealth University School of Business Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFayetteville State University: $30,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPortland State University Foundation: $28,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBradley University: $28,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $28,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational African-American Insurance Association: $27,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEureka College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOld Dominion University Research Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanisius University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Dominion University Educational Foundation: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Akron Foundation: $22,710 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTarleton State University Foundation: $22,337 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShenandoah University: $21,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCampus Auxiliary Services Inc at State University College Geneseo New York: $20,683 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $20,189 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 87.

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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.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN28.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · National Geographic Society · National Housing Endowment · Lyford Cay Foundation Inc · American Heart Association Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · The Howard University

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Spencer Educational Foundation Inc

How much does Spencer Educational Foundation Inc give?
Spencer Educational Foundation Inc reported 122 itemized grants totaling $1,965,788, out of $2,942,586 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 70 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Spencer Educational Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Science & Tech (15%), Employment (11%).
Who are Spencer Educational Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc ($568k), Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ($409k), Saint Joseph's University ($358k).
Does Spencer Educational Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Spencer Educational Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, American Chemical Society, Folds of Honor Foundation.
Where is Spencer Educational Foundation Inc based?
Spencer Educational Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 231 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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