The Spray Foundation

Recent grants

The 98 grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $685,000

  Melmark Charitable Foundation · Berwyn, PA · 2025

  Scholarship program

• $310,000

  Laurel House · Stamford, CT · 2025

  Resources to recover program

• $230,000

  Atlanta Speech School · Atlanta, GA · 2025

  Support programs & policies focusing on literacy & language development

• $200,000

  American Farmland Trust · Washington, DC · 2025

  Support programs and policies that help save farmland, farmers & the environment

• $150,000

  Wood River Land Trust · Hailey, ID · 2025

  To support the land trust in preserving and protecting the big wood river, its tributaries, and the treasured landscapes of central idaho

• $150,000

  Transylvania University · Lexington, KY · 2025

  Scholarship program

• $150,000

  Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana · New York, NY · 2025

  Flamenco dance company

• $150,000

  Earthjustice · New York, NY · 2025

  Environmental law programs

• $125,000

  Spoons Across America · New York, NY · 2025

  Educating children, teachers, and families about the benefits of healthy eating

• $100,000

  West Side Campaign Against Hunger · New York, NY · 2025

  Alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food

• $100,000

  Spur Community Foundation · Ketchum, ID · 2025

  Support arts, activities, facilities, and programs offered to the community

• $75,000

  Path To College Fellowship · West Palm Beach, FL · 2025

  Provide guidance, career exposure, and encouragement to students with high academic aspirations from

• $50,000

  The Formation Project · N Charleston, SC · 2025

  Provide life-changing services to survivors of human trafficking & exploitation

• $50,000

  Thousand Currents · San Francisco, CA · 2025

  To support grassroots social movements in the global south working on issues like climate justice, food sovereignty, and economic justice

• $50,000

  UK Kentucky Children'S Hospital · Lexington, KY · 2025

  Support the kentucky children's hospital activities & art in the new patient health unit.

• $50,000

  Aclu · New York, NY · 2025

  Provide clinical scholarships to patients who would otherwise not have access to

• $50,000

  Brennan Center for Justice · New York, NY · 2025

  Defend democracy, reform justice & protect the constitution

• $50,000

  Center for Biological Diversity · Tucson, AZ · 2025

  Work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media & grassroots activism.

• $50,000

  Climate Justice Alliance · Berkeley, CA · 2025

  Help build local alternatives that center traditional ecological and cultural knowledge and create a pathway for a regenerative future.

• $50,000

  Eblen Charities · Asheville, NC · 2025

  Community based charity focusing on damilies & individuals in time of crisis

• $50,000

  Equal Justice Initiatives · Montgomery, AL · 2025

  Provide legal representation to prisoners who may have been wrongly convicted of crimes, poor prisoners without effective representation, and others who may have been denied a fair trial

• $50,000

  Highlander Research & Education Center · New Market, TN · 2025

  Helps to give power back to individuals and communities, promoting justice and equity for all

• $50,000

  Kentucky Resources Council · Frankfort, KY · 2025

  Mission is to protect the commonwealth's natural resources and ensure environmental justice for kentucky's most vulnerable people and communities.

• $50,000

  Mountain Association · Berea, KY · 2025

  The mission is to invest in people and places in eastern kentucky.

• $50,000

  Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2025

  The mission is to safeguard the earth, its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

• $50,000

  North Star Fund · New York, NY · 2025

  Supports grassroots organizing led by communities of color building power by organizing people across race & class

• $50,000

  Soul Fire Farm Institute · Petersburgh, NY · 2025

  Strive to regenerate biodiversity and soil, protect the climate, and honor natural cycles of growth and rest

• $35,000

  Save the Chimps · Fort Pierce, FL · 2025

  Provide quality care to our beloved chimpanzee residents, including fresh and nutritious meals, exceptional veterinary care, innovative enrichment, and the social companionship necessary for the chimps to live happy and…

• $25,000

  The Frick Collection · New York, NY · 2025

  Support programs & activities in museum perserving the collection of henry clay frick

• $25,000

  The Community Library · Hailey, ID · 2025

  Support the library & programs to provide free resources & services

• $25,000

  Giffords Law Center · Washington, DC · 2025

  Promotes gun safety legislation

• $25,000

  The Windward School · White Plains, NY · 2025

  Support programs that provide a specialized, research-based education for children in grades 1-8 with dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities

• $30.4M

  Melmark Charitable Foundation · Berwyn, PA · 2024

  Endowment

• $630,000

  Melmark Charitable Foundation · Berwyn, PA · 2024

  Scholarship program

• $275,000

  Atlanta Botanical Garden · Atlanta, GA · 2024

  Support programs & policies where the horticulturally-minded, nature-inspired and fun-seeking families come together to feel human again.

• $260,000

  Laurel House · Stamford, CT · 2024

  Resources to recover program

• $200,000

  American Farmland Trust · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support programs and policies that help save farmland, farmers & the environment

• $150,000

  Wood River Land Trust · Hailey, ID · 2024

  To support the land trust in preserving and protecting the big wood river, its tributaries, and the treasured landscapes of central idaho

• $150,000

  Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana · New York, NY · 2024

  Flamenco dance company

• $137,500

  Earthjustice · New York, NY · 2024

  Environmental law programs

• $100,000

  Spoons Across America · New York, NY · 2024

  Educating children, teachers, and families about the benefits of healthy eating

• $75,000

  Transylvania University · Lexington, KY · 2024

  Scholarship program

• $75,000

  West Side Campaign Against Hunger · New York, NY · 2024

  Alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food

• $50,000

  Giffords Law Center · Washington, DC · 2024

  Promotes gun safety legislation

• $50,000

  Brennan Center for Justice · New York, NY · 2024

  Defend democracy, reform justice & protect the constitution

• $50,000

  Aclu · New York, NY · 2024

  Provide clinical scholarships to patients who would otherwise not have access to

• $50,000

  UK Kentucky Children'S Hospital · Lexington, KY · 2024

  Support the kentucky children's hospital activities & art in the new patient health unit.

• $50,000

  Eblen Charities · Asheville, NC · 2024

  Community based charity focusing on damilies & individuals in time of crisis

• $50,000

  Natural Resources Defense Council · New York, NY · 2024

  The mission is to safeguard the earth, its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

• $50,000

  Path To College Fellowship · West Palm Beach, FL · 2024

  Provide guidance, career exposure, and encouragement to students with high academic aspirations from

• $50,000

  Kentucky Resources Council · Frankfort, KY · 2024

  Mission is to protect the commonwealth's natural resources and ensure environmental justice for kentucky's most vulnerable people and communities.

• $50,000

  Unc-Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

  Nationally recognized teaching, groundbreaking research and dedication to public service.

• $50,000

  The Formation Project · N Charleston, SC · 2024

  Provide life-changing services to survivors of human trafficking & exploitation

• $37,500

  Equal Justice Initiatives · Montgomery, AL · 2024

  Provide legal representation to prisoners who may have been wrongly convicted of crimes, poor prisoners without effective representation, and others who may have been denied a fair trial

• $37,500

  Climate Justice Alliance · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Help build local alternatives that center traditional ecological and cultural knowledge and create a pathway for a regenerative future.

• $37,500

  Highlander Research & Education Center · New Market, TN · 2024

  Helps to give power back to individuals and communities, promoting justice and equity for all

• $37,500

  Thousand Currents · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To support grassroots social movements in the global south working on issues like climate justice, food sovereignty, and economic justice

• $37,500

  Center for Biological Diversity · Tucson, AZ · 2024

  Work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media & grassroots activism.

• $37,500

  North Star Fund · New York, NY · 2024

  Supports grassroots organizing led by communities of color building power by organizing people across race & class

• $37,500

  Soul Fire Farm Institute · Petersburgh, NY · 2024

  Strive to regenerate biodiversity and soil, protect the climate, and honor natural cycles of growth and rest

• $25,000

  Mountain Association · Berea, KY · 2024

  The mission is to invest in people and places in eastern kentucky.

• $505,000

  Melmark Charitable Foundation · Berwyn, PA · 2023

  Scholarship program

• $260,000

  Laurel House · Stamford, CT · 2023

  Resources to recover program

• $250,000

  UK Kentucky Children'S Hospital · Lexington, KY · 2023

  Support the kentucky children's hospital activities & art in the new patient health unit.

• $100,000

  Chris 180 · Atlanta, GA · 2023

  Provides a wide range of therapies & counseling specialties

• $100,000

  American Farmland Trust · Washington, DC · 2023

  Support programs and policies that help save farmland, farmers & the environment

• $100,000

  Earthjustice · New York, NY · 2023

  Environmental law programs

• $100,000

  Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023

  Research for center for maternal substance abuse

• $75,000

  Spoons Across America · New York, NY · 2023

  Educating children, teachers, and families about the benefits of healthy eating

• $75,000

  Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana · New York, NY · 2023

  Flamenco dance company

• $65,000

  Meals On Wheels Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2023

  Provides meals at home for those that can not purchase or prepare their own

• $50,000

  Aclu · Beaverton, OR · 2023

  Provide clinical scholarships to patients who would otherwise not have access to

• $50,000

  West Side Campaign Against Hunger · New York, NY · 2023

  Alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food

• $50,000

  Brennan Center for Justice · New York, NY · 2023

  Defend democracy, reform justice & protect the constitution

• $50,000

  Giffords Law Center · Washington, DC · 2023

  Promotes gun safety legislation

• $35,000

  Agape Youth & Family Center · Atlanta, GA · 2023

  Serve 200 school-age children in innovative, academic support programs, & 40 seniors

• $30,000

  Bluegrass Land Conservancy · Lexington, KY · 2023

  Preserving kentucky's bluegrass region forever.

• $20,000

  Good Shepherd Episcopal Church · Lexington, KY · 2023

  Provides an opportunity to engage in fellowship, explore your faith, & connect with g-d and others

• $480,000

  Melmark Charitable Foundation · Berwyn, PA · 2022

  Scholarship program

• $305,000

  Town Branch Park Llc · Lexington, KY · 2022

  General maintenance of park space

• $260,000

  Laurel House · Stamford, CT · 2022

  Resources to recover program

• $100,000

  American Farmland Trust · Washington, DC · 2022

  Support programs and policies that help save farmland, farmers & the environment

• $100,000

  Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022

  Research for center for maternal substance abuse

• $100,000

  Earthjustice · New York, NY · 2022

  Environmental law programs

• $55,000

  Good Samaritan Health Center · Atlanta, GA · 2022

  Provide low-income people access to medical care

• $50,000

  Seed Commons · New York, NY · 2022

  Seed commons is a national network of locally rooted, non-extractive loan funds that brings the power of big finance under community control

• $50,000

  Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home · Atlanta, GA · 2022

  General funds

• $50,000

  Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana · New York, NY · 2022

  Flamenco dance company

• $50,000

  Aclu · Beaverton, OR · 2022

  Provide clinical scholarships to patients who would otherwise not have access to

• $50,000

  Meals On Wheels Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2022

  Provides meals at home for those that can not purchase or prepare their own

• $50,000

  Spoons Across America · New York, NY · 2022

  Educating children, teachers, and families about the benefits of healthy eating

• $25,000

  The Giving Kitchen · Atlanta, GA · 2022

  Provide emergency assistance for food service workers through financial support & a network

• $25,000

  West Side Campaign Against Hunger · New York, NY · 2022

  Alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food

• $25,000

  Brennan Center for Justice · New York, NY · 2022

  Defend democracy, reform justice & protect the constitution

• $25,000

  Giffords Law Center · Washington, DC · 2022

  Promotes gun safety legislation

• $15,000

  Foster Care Support Foundation · Roswell, GA · 2022

  Provides guidance & resources for displaced pre-teens

• $10,000

  Children'S Restoration Network · Roswell, GA · 2022

  Serving homeless children

• $10,000

  Hampshire College Advancement · Amherst, MA · 2022

  James baldwin scholars program