· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 71 grants below total $955,371 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,867,354 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $911,983 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $283k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $523k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| FAULKNER UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-FULLERTON | $40,000 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $34,725 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $33,646 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON - DOWNTOWN | $32,400 |
| BROOKLYN COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY | $29,052 |
| THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR INSURANCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BROCKPORT | $22,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER | $20,000 |
| SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RISK & INSURANCE ASSOCIATION (ARIA) RISK & INSURANCE TEACHING SO | $20,000 |
| INSURING MI FUTURE | $19,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
64 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $442k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RARISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $568k · revenue +27%
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education7× · 2017–2024 · $359k · revenue +5%
- SJSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $275k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- BUBRENAU UNIVERSITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +45%
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $48k · revenue +32%
- BUBRADLEY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue +2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Salle University and the most unlike its peers is Adecco Group Us Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 169 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GAMMA IOTA SIGMA ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds FAULKNER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED INSURANCE SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Spencer Educational Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- VyStar Credit Union — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.