Texas · Private foundation
Spense Reese Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $805
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2026
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $805
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $805
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 100% of the organizations Spense Reese Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 1 | $805 | 100% |
| FY2025 | 5 | $30k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $42k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $76k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $84k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $32k | 69% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $12k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$300k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| La Sierra University | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), not named here.
About Spense Reese Foundation
- How much does Spense Reese Foundation give?
- Spense Reese Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $805 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2025.
- What does Spense Reese Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Spense Reese Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated ($6k), La Sierra University ($6k).
- Does Spense Reese Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Spense Reese Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Spense Reese Foundation based?
- Spense Reese Foundation is based in TX.
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