California · Private foundation
The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation
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.
- $936k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $34,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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 | 12 | $936k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $851k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $851k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $905k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $464k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $386k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $42k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $47k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Aquinas College | $1,472,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Bulldog Foundation | $300,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Ag One | $100,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Protect the Arch | $100,000 | 1 | 80% |
| Valley Caregiver Resource Center | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Obria Medical Clinics of Southern California Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation give?
- The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $935,842 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (83%), Recreation & Sports (9%), Crime & Legal (2%).
- Who are The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Thomas Aquinas College ($1.5M), The Bulldog Foundation ($300k), Ag One ($100k).
- Does The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Spencer Family 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 Spencer Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation based?
- The Spencer Family Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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