Private foundation · EIN 36-6078558 · Chicago, IL · Return for the year ending 2024-03-31
Where The Spencer Foundation's grants went
It reported $20M in grants paid across 254 lines. WHOFUNDS matched 59.6% of those dollars to 106 recipient organizations.
- Matched to an EIN $11.9M 141 lines
- No confident match $6.66M 90
- Individuals, not shown $40.4K 1
- Outside the US $1.38M 22
What its filing says about applications
It did not check the 990-PF box for “only contributes to preselected organizations.”
- Form of application
- Application and information and materials requirements posted on website
- Deadlines
- Deadlines posted on Foundation's website www.spencer.org
- Restrictions
- Information posted on Foundation's website www.spencer.org
- Website on filing
- www.spencer.org
Contact names and phone numbers are on the filing itself. WHOFUNDS doesn't republish them.
Grants paid 249 published lines
| Recipient | Paid | Purpose as filed | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| The National Academy of Education Washington, DC · EIN 77-0415802 | $1,266,418 | National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs (Cohorts 24-25, 25-26, 26-27) | Same address 1.00 |
| The National Academy of Education Washington, DC · EIN 77-0415802 | $876,521 | National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Programs (Cohorts 24-25, 25-26, 26-27) | Same address 1.00 |
| William T Grant Foundation New York, NY · EIN 13-1624021 | $649,678 | Support for the 2023 Institutional Challenge Grant Program at the William T. Grant Foundation | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY · EIN 13-5598093 | $592,869 | Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship Program, 2020-2024 | Known alias 1.00 |
| University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA · no confident EIN match | $312,918 | Merit Financial Aid for Low-Income Students and Social Mobility | Unmatched Help match |
| New York University New York, NY · EIN 13-5562308 | $305,190 | Organizing Family and Community: Collective Parent Action and Intergenerational Learning | Known alias 1.00 |
| The Ohio State University Columbus, OH · no confident EIN match | $295,250 | Longitudinal Peer Social Networks and Early Language Development: Transforming Understanding of Critical Features of Young Childrens Classroom Experiences | Unmatched Help match |
| Metropolitan State University of Denver Denver, CO · no confident EIN match | $266,004 | Centering Trauma-Informed Practices (TIP) to Sustain TIP Knowledge and Reduce Secondary Traumatic Stress in Novice Teachers: An Interdisciplinary Research-Practice Partnership. | Unmatched Help match |
| Trustees of Boston University Boston, MA · EIN 04-2103547 | $246,806 | Re-imagining Alternative Education: Designing for Geographies of Care and Responsibility | Known alias 1.00 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University Tempe, AZ · EIN 86-6051042 | $242,956 | EYEPlay ADAPT:Expanding A University - Theater - School District Partnership to Support Early Literacy for Preschoolers with Diverse Abilit… | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| University of Missouri - St Louis Saint Louis, MO · no confident EIN match | $217,568 | Countering the Unintended Consequences of School Reforms: Communally-bonded Schools Reconnecting Black Students, Strengthening Communities, and Improving Educational Outcomes | Unmatched Help match |
| University of California Berkley Berkeley, CA · no confident EIN match | $205,794 | Race-conscious education policies and adaptive anti-discrimination in a divided, multiracial democracy | Unmatched Help match |
| American Indian College Fund Denver, CO · EIN 52-1573446 | $198,634 | American Indian and Alaska Native College Students: Building Collaborative Data Capacity and Investigating College Access, Persistence, and… | Exact name 1.00 |
| The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX · no confident EIN match | $197,818 | Do Campus Contexts Make Black Women Faculty Sick? A National Study of Black Women Academics Health Outcomes at Historically Black and Predominantly White Postsecondary Institutions | Unmatched Help match |
| University of Colorado Denver Denver, CO · no confident EIN match | $197,278 | Developing Research Capacity to Support the Assessment of Student Learning and Program Outcomes in Action Civics Programming | Unmatched Help match |
| University of California Berkley Berkeley, CA · no confident EIN match | $189,255 | Student Supports: The Role of Social Safety Net Programs in Community College Student Success | Unmatched Help match |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College Cambridge, MA · EIN 04-2103580 | $182,616 | The Black Teacher Archive: Charting New Paths in Digital Humanities and the History of African American Education | Known alias 1.00 |
| American Indian Science and Engineering Society Albuquerque, NM · EIN 73-1023474 | $180,692 | Leveraging the AISES Archival Database: Mixed Methods Study on Native STEM Success | Same address 1.00 |
| Drexel University Philadelphia, PA · EIN 23-1352630 | $172,750 | STEAMing through Dance: A Multimodal Exploration of Black Girls Intersectional Identities and STEAM Literacies within a Transdisciplinary S… | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL · no confident EIN match | $166,746 | Teaching about Race, Racism and Racial History: Investigating Experiences of Educators in Chicago | Unmatched Help match |
| Philadelphia Student Union Philadelphia, PA · EIN 23-2815998 | $165,268 | The Philadelphia Student Debt Coalition: Creating a Research-Organizing Model for Student Loan Policymaking | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC · EIN 56-6001393 | $164,166 | Back to Normal? The long run effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on student, educator, and school outcomes | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC · no confident EIN match | $163,097 | Examining Rural Dual Language Programs, Multilingual Learners, and Rural Community Cultural Wealth | Unmatched Help match |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund New Orleans, LA · EIN 72-0423889 | $163,039 | We are worthy of being heard and included: Engagement of youth voice in the evaluation of trauma-informed schools | Known alias 1.00 |
| University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL · no confident EIN match | $160,198 | Generating Queers: The Transformative Work of LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogues | Unmatched Help match |
| University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA · no confident EIN match | $158,118 | Young African American Children Animating Societal Change: A Mixed-Methods Inquiry | Unmatched Help match |
| The Corporation of Mercer University Macon, GA · EIN 58-0566167 | $153,992 | Use Your Voice: Linguistic Justice to Literacy Practice in the State of Georgia | Same address 0.99 |
| The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA · no confident EIN match | $152,936 | Childrens Everyday Practices in Inclusive Transglossic Spaces: A Study of Collectivist Approaches to Deaf-Nondeaf Inclusive Bilingual Education in France | Unmatched Help match |
| Learning Policy Institute East Palo Alto, CA · EIN 47-2772048 | $150,000 | Advancing SoLD-Aligned, Equity-Focused Educator Preparation and Policy | Exact name 1.00 |
| Putnam County Charter School System Eatonton, GA · no confident EIN match | $149,100 | Untelling the Past to Reimagine the Future: Transforming K-12 Education and Supporting the Transition to Higher Education in the Rural U.S. South | Unmatched Help match |
| University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA · no confident EIN match | $147,862 | The Afterlife of Slavery on Campus: Black Student Experiences with University Histories of Slavery and their Views on Higher Education Reparations | Unmatched Help match |
| Northwestern University Evanston, IL · EIN 36-2167817 | $145,059 | Tracing the Long Arc of Human Learning and Social Change: Parenting, Worldmaking and the Iranian Left | Same address 1.00 |
| University of California- Davis Davis, CA · EIN 46-4117124 | $134,645 | Centering racialized pre-service teachers: A proleptic re-design of teacher education for leveraging linguistic diversity | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Redwood City, CA · EIN 94-1156365 | $132,974 | Monitoring, Analyzing, and Improving Educational Equity in New York State | Known alias 1.00 |
| The Brookings Institution Washington, DC · EIN 53-0196577 | $132,718 | U.S. School Boards in a Time of Conflict and Consequence | Same address 1.00 |
| Temple University Philadelphia, PA · no confident EIN match | $127,262 | Emerging critical infrastructures during COVID-19: The role of PA school districts in supporting vulnerable communities during crisis | Unmatched Help match |
| Brown University Providence, RI · EIN 05-0258809 | $126,543 | Unequal Childhoods? The Complex Logics of Childrearing in Latinx Families | Known alias 1.00 |
| The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX · no confident EIN match | $126,427 | Structure-Agency in Special Education: A multilevel qualitative study of the implementation of inclusion | Unmatched Help match |
| New York University New York, NY · EIN 13-5562308 | $125,060 | Inequalities in Academic Advising and its Impacts in Higher Education | Known alias 1.00 |
| University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-1642394 | $120,740 | Keeping It Real: Learning From and Effectively Supporting Scholar-Activists | Known alias 1.00 |
| Brown University Providence, RI · EIN 05-0258809 | $118,934 | How Changing Neighborhood and School Contexts Shape Mental Health and Educational Attainment from Childhood to Early Adulthood | Known alias 1.00 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Redwood City, CA · EIN 94-1156365 | $118,778 | Evaluation of a preschool socio-emotional curriculum: Testing effectiveness and drivers of change in a large, urban school district | Known alias 1.00 |
| University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI · EIN 38-2038109 | $118,172 | Developing The Skills Needed for Living in a Diverse and Democratic Society: The Role of Liberal Arts Education | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Athens, GA · EIN 58-1353149 | $117,131 | Optimal Design of Experimental Studies Investigating Moderation and Main Effects | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| Wake Forest University Winstonsalem, NC · EIN 56-0532138 | $114,205 | Something Inside So Strong: Advancing Black and Hispanic Students' Reading Self-Efficacy, Leadership Development, and Community Engagement… | Exact name 1.00 |
| Michigan State University East Lansing, MI · no confident EIN match | $111,390 | Redesigning Virtual Schools as Networks of Care and Solidarity | Unmatched Help match |
| University of Massachusetts Boston Boston, MA · no confident EIN match | $108,150 | Intersectional Organizing: Strategies for Cross-issue Solidarity in Educational and Social Justice Movements | Unmatched Help match |
| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI · no confident EIN match | $107,914 | Cultivating Black autistic youth agency in the context of police encounters in schools and communities | Unmatched Help match |
| Adelphi University Garden City, NY · EIN 11-1630741 | $107,870 | Mapping school buildings using sensory ethnographic methods: A district-wide study of school architecture and spatial justice | Same street 1.00 |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL · no confident EIN match | $106,819 | Political Conocimiento in Teaching Mathematics: Preparing Teachers to Advocate for Students | Unmatched Help match |
4 more lines ($414K) aren't listed because the payee name as filed could identify a private person.
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Where this comes from
Grant lines are from Part XV of this foundation's Form 990-PF (XML). The filing names each payee but gives no tax ID, so WHOFUNDS matched payees to the IRS Business Master File. Lines it couldn't match confidently are listed as filed. Method and limits.