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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
27
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$2.9MScience & Tech$705kEmployment$489kCommunity Improvement$122kYouth Development$88kHealth$80kPhilanthropy$38kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

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
$7,500
Median grant
27
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%Northern Arizona University: $25k → 16%Gamma Iota Sigma: $50k → 6%Temple University: $110k → 22%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY-FULLERTON: $40k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $47k → 14%Mercy College: $40k → 9%Canisius College: $25k → 13%New York University: $25k → 17%BROOKLYN COLLEGE: $36k → 20%THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR INSURANCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $25k → 10%University of Texas at Dallas: $25k → 14%New Mexico State University: $25k → 23%FAULKNER UNIVERSITY: $50k → 18%University of Missouri: $25k → 15%University of Hartford: $25k → 11%FISK UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%BRENAU UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $34k → 27%University of Akron: $25k → 13%Eureka College: $25k → 7%BRADLEY UNIVERSITY: $29k → 14%OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $35k → 22%SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY: $29k → 20%BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%GAMMA IOTA SIGMA: $50k → 6%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 22%BROOKLYN COLLEGE: $30k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON - DOWNTOWN: $32k → 16%GAMMA IOTA SIGMA: $50k → 6%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT: $75k → 22%Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc: $145k → 17%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $33k → 22%RISK & INSURANCE MGMT SOCIETY: $58k → 17%Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc: $45k → 17%Chapman University: $48k → 10%Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc: $45k → 17%Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc: $45k → 17%Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc: $45k → 17%ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $75k → 22%RIMS STUDENT INVOLVEMENT: $40k → 17%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $75k → 22%RIMS AND SPENCER CHALLENGE: $35k → 17%SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $75k → 22%Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc: $35k → 17%ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc: $30k → 17%NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $28k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
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AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 64 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
72

Total granted

$3.2M
$925k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+29%

Still filing today

39%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementMembership BenefitOther

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

  • RA
    RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $568k · revenue +27%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    7× · 2017–2024 · $359k · revenue +5%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $275k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • BU
    BRENAU UNIVERSITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +45%
  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $48k · revenue +32%
  • BU
    BRADLEY UNIVERSITY
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Furman University

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.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
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
4
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

7
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
8
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
9
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Manhattanville University

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

Education
12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%67%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%69%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/163
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,402

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
52/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY INC — $567,547 · OtherRISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY INCGAMMA IOTA SIGMA — $200,000 · OtherGAMMA IOTA SIGMA+113 more — $1,778,986 · Other+113 moreTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $359,143 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System…SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $275,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITYSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $74,500 · EducationILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $71,300 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $66,000 · Education+42 more — $1,034,409 · Education+42 moreCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $70,000 · PhilanthropyADECCO GROUP US CHARITIES INC — $7,500 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK COMPLIANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT PRO — $8,000 · Community ImprovementBon Secours Mercy Health Inc — $27,998 · HealthJOHN F KENNEDY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · HealthAMERICAN RISK & INSURANCE ASSOC INC — $20,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$2,546,533Education$1,880,352Philanthropy$77,500Community Improvement$38,000Health$35,498Membership Benefit$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 — $359,143 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $275,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGAMMA IOTA SIGMA — $200,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $74,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $71,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $66,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRENAU UNIVERSITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAULKNER UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF CERTIFIED INSURANCE SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $48,762 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $47,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $46,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY — $43,204 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $33,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $32,394 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation — $31,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBRADLEY UNIVERSITY — $28,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $28,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Inc — $27,998 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAAIA FOUNDATION — $27,250 over 3y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN INSURANCE ASSOCIATION — $27,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEUREKA COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON FOUNDATION — $22,710 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $21,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University — $21,066 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $20,189 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RISK & INSURANCE ASSOC INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetINSURING MI FUTURE — $19,500 over 1y, 39% of budgetLe Moyne College — $19,331 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $19,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF PRODUCER INS STUDIES INC — $18,750 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOregon State University Foundation — $13,765 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROFESSIONAL LIABILITY UNDERWRITING SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • University of Hartford1% of income from government
  • VyStar Credit Union0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 169 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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