New York · Private foundation
The Spray 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.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $685,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- 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, 52% of the organizations The Spray Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $938k 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 | 30 | $3.2M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $33M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $1.9M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $1.8M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $2.3M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $23M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $2.0M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $1.3M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Melmark Charitable Foundation | $34,592,269 | 8 | n/a |
| Laurel House Inc | $1,640,000 | 8 | 12% |
| American Farmland Trust | $1,200,001 | 8 | 1% |
| Town Branch Park Inc | $1,175,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Earthjustice | $819,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc | $750,000 | 2 | 9% |
| West Side Center for Community Life | $355,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Transylvania University | $332,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wood River Land Trust Co | $300,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Dekalb Medical Center | $285,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($24M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Spray Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Spray Foundation Inc
- How much does The Spray Foundation Inc give?
- The Spray Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $3,310,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Spray Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (55%), Human Services (31%), Environment (4%).
- Who are The Spray Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Melmark Charitable Foundation ($35M), Laurel House Inc ($1.6M), American Farmland Trust ($1.2M).
- Does The Spray Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Spray 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 The Spray Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Elhapa Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
- Where is The Spray Foundation Inc based?
- The Spray Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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