California · Private foundation
The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable 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.
- $112k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,893
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $216k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $102k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $143k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $59k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $69k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $65k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $86k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Film Society | $276,807 | 6 | 1% |
| Every Mother Counts | $82,102 | 5 | 0% |
| Walk of Champions | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Reserve Academy | $29,821 | 5 | 0% |
| Blackburn Foundation | $10,300 | 1 | n/a |
| The Branson School | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Opera Association | $5,650 | 2 | 0% |
| The Quad Preparatory School | $5,083 | 2 | 0% |
| The Taft School Corporation | $3,390 | 3 | 0% |
| Manifestworks | $2,750 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation 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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
Compare The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation give?
- The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $112,337 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Education (19%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: San Francisco Film Society ($277k), Every Mother Counts ($82k), Walk of Champions ($40k).
- Does The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation 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 The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation based?
- The Alexandra and Spencer Wells Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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