The Wls Spencer Foundation

What they fund

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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.

6 grants matching “avid” · $174,644

• $50,180

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

  To support avid elementary school and summer institute programs

• $20,000

  Eugene Southtowne Rotary Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2025

  To support first-generation college scholarships for avid graduates

• $49,464

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

  For avid elementary school programs

• $20,000

  Eugene Southtowne Rotary Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2024

  For first-generation college scholarships for avid graduates

• $10,000

  Eugene Southtowne Rotary Foundation · Eugene, OR · 2023

  For first generation college scholarships for avid graduates

• $25,000

  Newport Harbor Educational Foundation · Newport Beach, CA · 2022

  For the nhhs avid program

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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