New York · Nonprofit
THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC
THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Susan Zirkl Z L Memorial Charitable Foundation Trust ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 36% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 44 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Rhea Blackwood Charitable Foundationshared funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Rhea Blackwood Charitable Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unsung Siblings Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Everybody Wins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- La Esperanza de Nuestra Comunidadportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michael Klein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank & Victoria Rich Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC?
- THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Susan Zirkl Z L Memorial Charitable Foundation Trust ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC?
- Susan Zirkl Z L Memorial Charitable Foundation Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SPENCER FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing