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Spencer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLAMETTE CAREER ACADEMY | $65,017 |
| LITTLE BIRD CHILDCARE MCMINNVILLE | $38,324 |
| LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN | $27,885 |
| MIRACLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,790 |
| ADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM | $10,504 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| NORTHWEST CATHOLIC COUNSELING CENTER | $5,000 |
| SIMPLICITY SERVES | $5,000 |
| APIA SOMOA MISSION | $3,396 |
| GREAT SHAPE INC | $2,947 |
| ELKS YOUTH EYE SERVICE | $2,500 |
| HOLY FAMILY CHURCH | $2,500 |
| MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES | $2,417 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Spencer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 17 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $195k
- MCMIRACLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $132k · revenue -41%
- LBLITTLE BIRD CHILDCARE LAFAYETTE2× · 2022–2023 · $86k
Funded once
- PUPACIFIC UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $47k · revenue +1%
- YCYAMHILL COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $33k
- VGVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTHone grant, 2024 · $21k
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.
Global Dental Relief GDR brings free dental treatment and preventive care to 23,000 children annually from remote villages charity schools and orphanages. In addition GDR provides oral health education a new toothbrush and preventive oral…
Our mission is to provide culturally sensitive community oral health care, preventive education, professional training, and to advocate for access for all. our vision is that all people will have access to high quality, affordable dental…
To provide low cost and charity dental care
Dental3 is dedicated to collaboratively improving oral health access and equity, with a focus on underserved communities, through the coordination and provision of community based oral health services for Medicaid eligible individuals and…
South bay children's health center serves the dental and mental health needs of low-income or at-risk children, teens and young adults; empowering them to live healthy, productive and happy lives.
Cura smiles, inc. exists to expand sustainable dental services to the under-served, both locally and globally. theses efforts are accomplished through a system of training and equipping local dentists and students to provide the important…
To provide the highest quality healthcare for everyone in our communities.
To create lasting oral health for the low-income children, adults, and seniors of santa cruz county and neighboring communities so that everyone has the dignity that comes from a healthy smile.
The mission of smile network international is straightforward: to provide free reconstructive surgeries for individuals born with cleft lips and palates in developing countries.
Provide dental care to lowincome families,and provide dental education and training in third world countries.
The mission of jessie trice community health system, inc. (the orgainzation) is to improve health equality for our diverse south florida community by providing and increasing access to quality comprehensive primary care services. please…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Max & Therese Cadet Dental Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Island Dental Care International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 41 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 MIRACLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHWEST CATHOLIC COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MAX & THERESE CADET DENTAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Simplicity Serves ↗
- Who funds GREAT SHAPE INC ↗
- Who funds Victory Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds ELKS YOUTH EYE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PARROTT CREEK CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEW CHURCH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHBISHOP FRANCIS N BLANCHET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oregon Inc ↗
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: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Parrott Creek Child and Family Services — 20% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- The Northwest Catholic Counseling Center — 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.
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