Massachusetts · Private foundation
Sprague Foundation Inc
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.
- $204k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 30
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Sprague Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $204k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $214k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $174k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $179k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $127k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $98k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends Central School Corporation | $71,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Compass Arts Creativity Project Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hope Partnership for Education | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The People's Light & Theatre Company | $32,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Hedgerow Theatre Inc | $28,000 | 4 | 12% |
| The Kairos Foundation | $26,000 | 6 | 7% |
| The Franklin Institute | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Eddies House | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends Central School Corporation | $71,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Compass Arts Creativity Project Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hope Partnership for Education | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The People's Light & Theatre Company | $32,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Hedgerow Theatre Inc | $28,000 | 4 | 12% |
| The Kairos Foundation | $26,000 | 6 | 7% |
| The Franklin Institute | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Eddies House | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Puentes de Salud | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Beacon Arts Community Association | $5,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bard College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dollar For | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Squashsmarts Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Moving Arts Exchange Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lower Merion Conservancy | $2,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Philadelphia Education Fund | $1,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Springside Chestnut Hill Academy | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Gladwyne Fire Company | $1,200 | 5 | 0% |
| WellspringKaritas Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gladwyne Free Library | $1,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of the Rail Park | $1,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bridlewild Trails Association Inc | $400 | 5 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $200 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($595k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sprague Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Neubauer Family Foundation · Angelakis Family Foundation · Anderson Family Foundation · Angelakis Charitable Foundation · The Specter Foundation · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sprague Foundation Inc
- How much does Sprague Foundation Inc give?
- Sprague Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $203,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Sprague Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Arts & Culture (25%), Health (13%).
- Who are Sprague Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Friends Central School Corporation ($71k), Compass Arts Creativity Project Inc ($55k), Khan Academy Inc ($50k).
- Does Sprague Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sprague Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sprague Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
- Where is Sprague Foundation Inc based?
- Sprague Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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