California · Private foundation
Spruce Street Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 26
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Spruce Street Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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 | 20 | $815k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $433k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $682k | 85% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $962k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peninsula Arts Guild | $550,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Partners for Justice Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Chapman University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pioneer Works Art Foundation | $65,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Laurel Foundation | $65,000 | 3 | 35% |
| Bay Area Women Leader Network | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
| School of Leadership-Afghanistan Inc | $55,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Atlanta Baseball Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 13% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Spruce Street Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Spruce Street Foundation Inc
- How much does Spruce Street Foundation Inc give?
- Spruce Street Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $1,265,433 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 26 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Spruce Street Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (20%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Spruce Street Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Peninsula Arts Guild ($550k), Partners for Justice Inc ($150k), Chapman University ($100k).
- Does Spruce Street Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Spruce Street 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 Spruce Street Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Spruce Street Foundation Inc based?
- Spruce Street Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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