· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Compass Arts Creativity Project | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Hope Partnership for Education | $10,000 |
| More to Life | $10,000 |
| Peoples Light and Theater Co | $10,000 |
| Hedgerow Theatre | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Dollar For | $5,000 |
| Bard College Simons Rock FJS Schola | $5,000 |
| Crescent Foundations | $5,000 |
| Shoreline Trolley Museum | $2,000 |
| Kairos Foundation | $1,000 |
| SquashSmarts | $1,000 |
| Riverbend Environmental Center | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACOMPASS ARTS CREATIVITY PROJECT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +70%
- KAKHAN ACADEMY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +154%
- HPHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- PYPHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS3× · 2023–2025 · $20k
- CUcolumbia Univ LamontDoherty Observaone grant, 2020 · $13k
- MBMarine Biological Lab3× · 2023–2025 · $10k
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.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
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How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 58 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ARTS CREATIVITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HEDGEROW THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds The Kairos Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EDDIES HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PUENTES DE SALUD ↗
- Who funds BEACON ARTS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DOLLAR FOR ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sprague Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sprague Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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