Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
The Foundation promotes national security, entrepreneurship, self-reliance, and free enterprise, and enhances quality of life by supporting the arts, education, global understanding, health advancements, and preservation of the environment.
Average award: $50,000–$150,000
Total awarded: $45,816,420
Deadline: Rolling
Award Project Period: Annual
Bethesda, MD 20814-6368
Diana Davis Spencer Foundation espouses the values upon which the nation was founded: freedom and individual responsibility. The mission of the foundation is to promote national security, entrepreneurship, self-reliance, free enterprise, and to enhance quality of life by supporting the arts, education, global understanding, health advancements, and preservation of the environment. The Foundation will support education initiatives from pre-school up through adulthood. It supports programs—such as Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), City Year, Turnaround for Children, and Teach for America—that offer resources to low-performing schools in high poverty areas.
Tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations.
- $1,500,000 to Mysa School (Bethesda, MD) to support this independent, micro-school model of education for students in grades K–12.
- $100,000 to Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (Washington, D.C.) for DC public charter school advocacy and support.
- $50,000 to Maplebrook School (Amenia, NY) for an alumni retreat and the building of a swimming pool at this boarding school.
- $28,000 to Daniel Morgan Academy (Washington, D.C.) for general support and capital expenditures for the graduate educational institute.
The Foundation considers grant applications on an invitation-only basis. Organizations that wish to be invited to apply may complete the online form that requires contact information and a brief description of
the proposed project.