· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SIMPLICITY SERVES | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST CATHOLIC COUNSELING CENTER | $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 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Spencer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +3% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMIRACLE CORNERS OF THE WORLD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $132k · revenue +3%
- CCCOMPASSION CONNECT INC3× · 2021–2023 · $29k · revenue +47%
THE NORTHWEST CATHOLIC COUNSELING CENTER4× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- PUPACIFIC UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $47k · revenue +1%
- YCYAMHILL COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $33k
- VGVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTHone grant, 2024 · $21k
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 41 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
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Spencer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spencer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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