Funding search · EIN 760569950 · Houston, TX

Ja Sprague Family Foundation

Name: Ja Sprague Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

70
grants reported: $521,000
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

alumni connect diabetes rowing after dead moore peter

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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

Bowdoin College3 grants · $59,000
Houston Methodist Hospital2 grants · $50,000
Portland Community Squash3 grants · $45,000
Mission Squash3 grants · $30,000
Pro-Vision2 grants · $30,000
St John the Divine Episcopal Church3 grants · $30,000
Slingshot Memphis3 grants · $20,000
Connect2 grants · $20,000
Boston Rowing Federation1 grant · $20,000
Kinkaid School3 grants · $19,000

Giving over time

$197,500

2022

$156,500

2023

$167,000

2024

Grant history

All 70 reported grants, largest first.

$33,000
Bowdoin College · Brunswick, ME · 2023
Alumni Fund; Rowing Program; Dead Writers Podcast
$25,000
Houston Methodist Hospital · Houston, TX · 2023
Diabetes Program
$25,000
Houston Methodist Hospital · Houston, TX · 2022
Diabetes Program
$23,000
Bowdoin College · Brunswick, ME · 2022
Rowing Program
$20,000
Boston Rowing Federation · Wrentham, MA · 2024
General Purpose
$20,000
Portland Community Squash · Portland, ME · 2024
General Purpose
$20,000
Pro-Vision · Houston, TX · 2024
General Purpose
$15,000
Portland Community Squash · Portland, ME · 2023
General Purpose
$15,000
Mission Squash · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$13,000
Kinkaid School · Houston, TX · 2024
Alumni Fund and Tom Moore Fund
$10,000
Connect · Aspen, CO · 2024
Connect! Programs
$10,000
Hurricane Island Foundation · Rockland, ME · 2024
Peter Willaur Fund
$10,000
Mission Squash · Houston, TX · 2024
General Purpose
$10,000
St John the Divine Episcopal Church · Houston, TX · 2024
General Purpose
$10,000
Three Trees Foundation · Houston, TX · 2024
General Purpose
$10,000
Pro-Vision · Houston, TX · 2023
General Purpose
$10,000
St John the Divine Episcopal Church · Houston, TX · 2023
General Purpose
$10,000
The Aspen Chapel · Aspen, CO · 2023
Connect! After school programs
$10,000
Connect · Aspen, CO · 2022
General Purpose
$10,000
Portland Community Squash · Portland, ME · 2022
General Purpose
$10,000
Slingshot Memphis · Memphis, TN · 2022
General Purpose
$10,000
St John the Divine Episcopal Church · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$10,000
Tabor Academy · Marion, MA · 2022
Contribution to the Alumni Fund
$7,500
Just City · Memphis, TN · 2024
General Purpose
$7,000
St James Church · Scarborough, ME · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Ecclesia Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
General Purpose
$5,000
Houston Area Women'S Center · Houston, TX · 2024
General Purpose
$5,000
Slingshot Memphis · Memphis, TN · 2024
General Purpose
$5,000
Ecclesia Houston · Houston, TX · 2023
General Purpose
$5,000
Houston Area Women'S Center · Houston, TX · 2023
General Purpose
$5,000
Just City · Memphis, TN · 2023
General Purpose
$5,000
Mission Squash · Houston, TX · 2023
General Purpose
$5,000
Slingshot Memphis · Memphis, TN · 2023
General Purpose
$5,000
Three Trees Foundation · Houston, TX · 2023
General Purpose
$5,000
Depelchin Children'S Center · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Ecclesia Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Helen James Foundation · Memphis, TN · 2022
General Support
$5,000
Houston Area Women'S Center · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Houston Food Bank · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Just City · Memphis, TN · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Memorial Park Conservancy · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Mid-South Food Bank · Mephis, TN · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Museum of Fine Arts Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Provision · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Southern Methodist University · Dallas, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
Star of Hope Mission · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
The First Tee of Greater Houston · Houston, TX · 2022
General Purpose
$5,000
University of Texas Law Foundation · Austin, TX · 2022
Alumni Fund
$4,000
Tabor Academy · Marion, MA · 2024
Contribution to the Alumni Fund
$3,000
Bowdoin College · Brunswick, ME · 2024
Alumni Fund
$3,000
Memorial Park Conservancy · Houston, TX · 2024
General Purpose
$3,000
Nonesuch Oar and Paddle Club · Scarborough, ME · 2024
General Purpose
$3,000
Helen James Foundation · Memphis, TN · 2023
General Support
$3,000
Kinkaid School · Houston, TX · 2023
Alumni Fund
$3,000
Memorial Park Conservancy · Houston, TX · 2023
General Purpose
$3,000
Nonesuch Oar and Paddle Club · Scarborough, ME · 2023
General Purpose
$3,000
Kinkaid School · Houston, TX · 2022
Alumni Fund
$3,000
Nonesuch Oar and Paddle Club · Scarborough, ME · 2022
General Purpose
$2,000
Houston Food Bank · Houston, TX · 2024
General Purpose
$2,000
Mid-South Food Bank · Memphis, TN · 2024
General Purpose
$2,000
St James Church · Scarborough, ME · 2024
General Purpose
$2,000
Houston Food Bank · Houston, TX · 2023
General Purpose
$2,000
Mid-South Food Bank · Mephis, TN · 2023
General Purpose
$2,000
St James Church · Scarborough, ME · 2023
General Purpose
$2,000
Tabor Academy · Marion, MA · 2023
Contribution to the Alumni Fund
$2,000
University of Texas Law Foundation · Austin, TX · 2023
Alumni Fund
$1,500
Prouts Neck Historical Society · Scarborough, ME · 2024
General Purpose
$1,500
Prouts Neck Historical Society · Scarborough, ME · 2023
General Purpose
$1,500
Prouts Neck Historical Society · Scarborough, ME · 2022
General Purpose
$1,000
University of Texas Law Foundation · Austin, TX · 2024
Alumni Fund

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