· Private foundation
W Vaughan Spencer 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF DAVIDSON COUNTY | $4,000 |
| HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER | $4,000 |
| ADDISON JO BLAIR FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| CHERYL CATES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF RADCLIFF | $1,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ANGLICAN MISSIONARIES AND SENDERS (SAMS) | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +13%
- KWKEY WEST WOMANS CLUB4× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +23%
- VJVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC4× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +143%
Funded once
WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -8%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +39%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
We provide comprehensive hospice care services, supportive care for pain & symptom management for those with serious illness, and grief support. through our mission, willamette vital health supports adults and children living with a…
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…
To enable individuals to remain in their homes by supporting compassionate, effective, life-enhancing health and supportive services. at this time, hfk care corporation is inactive.
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
Our mission is to provide a mutually supportive environment for residents and staff, and to contribute to the greater ithaca community.
The mission of webster memorial hospital is to provide excellent, high quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.
Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.
Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST WOMANS CLUB ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF DAVIDSON COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Samuels House ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Helen Keller Services ↗
- Who funds ADDISON JO BLAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W Vaughan Spencer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Vaughan Spencer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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