California · Private foundation
The Grace Helen Spearman 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.
- $956k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 89
- Grants FY2025
- 86
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $64,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 80 to 126
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k 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 | 87 | $941k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 86 | $855k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $721k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $920k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 125 | $834k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 98 | $792k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 126 | $835k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 106 | $775k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAP Health Inc | $347,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Mizell Center | $192,600 | 8 | 2% |
| United Way of the Desert | $135,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Senior Advocates of the Desert | $106,500 | 8 | 23% |
| The Desert Symphony Inc | $100,100 | 4 | 4% |
| Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center | $100,100 | 4 | 4% |
| AIDS Assistance Program | $100,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Living Desert The | $97,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Palm Springs Cultural Center | $97,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Do the Right Thing Greater Palm Springs | $75,000 | 2 | 15% |
Show all 237 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 152 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Regional Access Project Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Western Wind Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation with peer funders
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About The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation
- How much does The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation give?
- The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation reported 89 grants totaling $955,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 80 and 126 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Human Services (27%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: DAP Health Inc ($348k), Mizell Center ($193k), United Way of the Desert ($135k).
- Does The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Grace Helen Spearman 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 Grace Helen Spearman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inland Empire Community Foundation, Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc, Regional Access Project Foundation.
- Where is The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation based?
- The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation is based in CA.
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