The Wls Spencer Foundation

What they fund

countyavidcontemporaryexhibitionartsassociatedchinese

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

• Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art9 grants · $912,580
• University of Oregon Foundation5 grants · $887,369
• Freshgrass Public Foundation7 grants · $587,500
• Surfrider Foundation3 grants · $450,000
• Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust3 grants · $320,000
• Teach for America3 grants · $300,000
• Klcc Public Radio Foundation7 grants · $280,000
• The Surfrider Foundation1 grant · $250,000
• Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation3 grants · $120,005
• 826 Valencia3 grants · $120,000

Giving over time

Grant history

The 100 largest of 109 grants.

• $260,000

  University of Oregon Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2022

  For jsma wadsworth contemporary chinese photography collection

• $250,000

  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art · North Adams, MA · 2025

  Digital strategy implementation

• $250,000

  The Surfrider Foundation · San Clemente, CA · 2025

  To support the plastic pollution initiative

• $250,000

  Surfrider Foundation · San Clemente, CA · 2024

  For plastic pollution initiative

• $200,000

  Freshgrass Public Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For artist awards and general support

• $192,632

  University of Oregon Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For jsma wadsworth contemporary chinese photography collection

• $175,000

  Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust · Purchase, NY · 2025

  Ms gift pm north county hii

• $175,000

  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art · North Adams, MA · 2023

  For development of a new department of public programs

• $174,737

  University of Oregon Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2024

  For contemporary chinese photography collection

• $170,526

  University of Oregon Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2025

  To support the contemporary chinese photography collection

• $125,000

  Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust · Purchase, NY · 2025

  Ms gift pm north county hii

• $125,000

  Freshgrass Public Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $125,000

  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art · North Adams, MA · 2024

  For development of a new department of public programs

• $125,000

  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art · North Adams, MA · 2022

  For mass moca digital master plan

• $102,500

  Freshgrass Public Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For in support of the artist award fund

• $100,000

  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art · North Adams, MA · 2025

  Development of a new department of public programs

• $100,000

  Teach for America · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  For program expansion and resources for educators

• $100,000

  The Asia Society · New York, NY · 2024

  For curator of learning and outreach

• $100,000

  Surfrider Foundation · San Clemente, CA · 2023

  For plastic pollution initiative

• $100,000

  Teach for America · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  For beyond recovery: supporting teachers to help bay area students thrive after crisis

• $100,000

  Freshgrass Public Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $100,000

  Surfrider Foundation · San Clemente, CA · 2022

  For plastic pollution initiative

• $100,000

  Teach for America · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

  For beyond recovery: supporting teachers to help bay area students thrive after crisis

• $89,474

  University of Oregon Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2022

  For jsma wadsworth contemporary chinese photography collection

• $75,000

  Klcc Public Radio Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2025

  Journalism fellowship and arts reporting

• $75,000

  Klcc Public Radio Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For full-time professional klcc reporter

• $60,000

  Charitable Partnership Fund · Portland, OR · 2025

  Undergrowth educational print fund apprenticeship and artist in residence programs

• $50,180

  Lane County School District 4j · Eugene, OR · 2025

  To support avid elementary school and summer institute programs

• $50,000

  Lane Arts Council · Eugene, OR · 2025

  Arts education and cultural programming in lane county

• $50,000

  Museum Associates · Los Angeles, CA · 2025

  To support the "zheng chongbin: golden state" exhibition and associated programming

• $50,000

  Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation · New York, NY · 2025

  To support the "do ho suh" exhibition and associated programming

• $50,000

  The John G Shedd Institute for the Arts · Eugene, OR · 2025

  Capital campaign

• $50,000

  Klcc Public Radio Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2024

  For full-time professional klcc reporter

• $50,000

  Ten Strands · San Rafael, CA · 2024

  For data initiative for environmental and climate action

• $50,000

  826 Valencia · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For 826 valencia in-schools program

• $50,000

  Bay Area Scores · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For scores go!

• $50,000

  Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For japanese prints in transition

• $50,000

  Klcc Public Radio Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For multimedia expansion project

• $50,000

  Peer Health Exchange · Oakland, CA · 2023

  For empowering young people through health education

• $50,000

  Ten Strands · San Rafael, CA · 2023

  For data initiative for environmental and climate action in californias tk12 schools

• $50,000

  The John G Shedd Institute for the Arts · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For general support

• $50,000

  826 Valencia · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For 826 valencia in-schools program

• $50,000

  Bay Area Scores · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For scores go!

• $50,000

  Peer Health Exchange · Oakland, CA · 2022

  For empowering young people through health education

• $49,464

  Lane County School District 4j · Eugene, OR · 2024

  For avid elementary school programs

• $47,580

  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art · North Adams, MA · 2022

  For yemandja

• $40,539

  California College of the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For building the behaviors of belonging at cca

• $40,005

  Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation · New York, NY · 2022

  For guggenheim deai training with seed & spark, film forward

• $40,000

  Smart Reading · Portland, OR · 2025

  Smart reading programs in lane county

• $40,000

  Smart Reading · Portland, OR · 2023

  For smart reading programs in lane county

• $40,000

  The Robert W Woodruff Arts Center · Atlanta, GA · 2023

  For woodruff arts center & high museum of art dei experiential learning with film forward.

• $40,000

  Smart Reading · Portland, OR · 2022

  For smart reading programs in lane county

• $35,000

  San Francisco Friends School · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For horizons at sffs program expansion 2021-24

• $35,000

  San Francisco Friends School · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For program expansion 2021-24

• $31,186

  Seattle Art Museum · Seattle, WA · 2025

  To support the "ai, rebel: the art and activism of ai weiwei" exhibition and associated programming

• $30,000

  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art · North Adams, MA · 2024

  For general support

• $30,000

  Maude I Kerns Art Center · Eugene, OR · 2024

  For acquisition of the whiteaker printmakers studio

• $30,000

  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art · North Adams, MA · 2023

  For general support

• $30,000

  Maude I Kerns Art Center · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For capacity building - printmaking studio acquisition

• $30,000

  Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

  For the avant-garde: experimental art in south korea, 1960s-70s

• $30,000

  Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art · North Adams, MA · 2022

  For general support

• $25,000

  Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For takashi murakami - education and programs

• $25,000

  Lane Arts Council · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For design arts apprenticeship program

• $25,000

  Community Supported Shelters · Eugene, OR · 2022

  For service team trauma-informed-care training & support

• $25,000

  Hudson River Museum of Westchester · Yonkers, NY · 2022

  For "kengo kito: unity on the hudson" exhibition

• $25,000

  Lane Arts Council · Eugene, OR · 2022

  For design arts apprenticeship program

• $25,000

  Newport Harbor Educational Foundation · Newport Beach, CA · 2022

  For the nhhs avid program

• $25,000

  Tallgrass Film Association · Wichita, KS · 2022

  For tallgrass dei initiative with film forward

• $20,000

  Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation & Development · Corvallis, OR · 2025

  Many bridges exhibition and associated programming

• $20,000

  Eugene Southtowne Rotary Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2025

  To support first-generation college scholarships for avid graduates

• $20,000

  Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust · Purchase, NY · 2025

  Ms gift pm north county hii

• $20,000

  The Breakthrough Collaborative · Oakland, CA · 2025

  To support the national teaching fellow initiative

• $20,000

  826 Valencia · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $20,000

  Bay Area Scores · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $20,000

  Eugene Southtowne Rotary Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2024

  For first-generation college scholarships for avid graduates

• $20,000

  Freshgrass Public Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For folk alley

• $20,000

  The Breakthrough Collaborative · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For national teaching fellow initiative

• $20,000

  Freshgrass Public Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For folk alley

• $20,000

  Freshgrass Public Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For folk alley

• $15,000

  Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For programming associated with the exhibition guo pei: couture fantasy

• $15,000

  Eugene Contemporary Art · Eugene, OR · 2022

  For eugene contemporary art

• $15,000

  Honolulu Biennial Foundation (Hawaii Contemporary) · Honolulu, HI · 2022

  For hawaii triennial 2022

• $15,000

  St Vincent De Paul Society of Lane County · Eugene, OR · 2022

  For youth and family services - youth house

• $10,000

  Food for Lane County · Eugene, OR · 2025

  General support

• $10,000

  Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon · Eugene, OR · 2025

  For general support

• $10,000

  Burchfield Penney Art Center · Buffalo, NY · 2024

  For a grammar of animacy: charles e. Burchfield and mike glier

• $10,000

  Klcc Public Radio Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2024

  For general support

• $10,000

  Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon · Eugene, OR · 2024

  For general support

• $10,000

  Eugene Southtowne Rotary Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For first generation college scholarships for avid graduates

• $10,000

  Klcc Public Radio Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For general support

• $10,000

  Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For general support

• $10,000

  White Bird Clinic · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For general support

• $10,000

  Ditch Projects · Springfield, OR · 2022

  For ditch project operational support

• $10,000

  Klcc Public Radio Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2022

  For general support

• $10,000

  Medecins Sans Frontiers USA · New York, NY · 2022

  For general support

• $10,000

  Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon · Eugene, OR · 2022

  For general support

• $10,000

  Team Rubicon · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

  For international operations

• $10,000

  White Bird Clinic · Eugene, OR · 2022

  For general support

• $9,979

  Maude I Kerns Art Center · Eugene, OR · 2022

  For curriculum & resource development support for teaching artists

• $5,000

  Food for Lane County · Eugene, OR · 2024

  For general support

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