· Private foundation
Adam R Scripps Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k87 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k116 grants · $11M
- $250k+46 grants · $22M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Regents of the University of California San Diego | $2,000,000 |
| Society for Science & the Public | $2,000,000 |
| Scripps Research Institute | $1,865,000 |
| Foundation Communities | $1,000,000 |
| Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc | $1,000,000 |
| Scripps Health Foundation | $778,000 |
| Sundari Foundation Inc | $717,000 |
| College Possible | $701,200 |
| SA Christian Hope Resource Center | $600,000 |
| Admiral Nimitz Foundation | $500,000 |
| EAA Aviation Foundation Inc | $500,000 |
| FBG Friends of the Fields | $500,000 |
| FBG Friends of the Fields | $500,000 |
| Scripps Health Foundation | $500,000 |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes | $500,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 101 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SFSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC2× · 2023–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +43%
- SHSCRIPPS HEALTH2× · 2023–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +18%
- AHAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- FTFEEDING TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $900k · revenue +41%
Central Texas Food Bank Incone grant, 2023 · $550k · revenue -12%- TGThe Grace Center In Fredericksburgone grant, 2023 · $413k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas and the most unlike its peers is The Scripps Howard Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
228 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 228 of the 269 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FBG FRIENDS OF THE FIELDS ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Scripps Howard Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN TOO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CIBOLO WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRACYSPAWSRESCUE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds Scripps Howard Fund ↗
- Who funds STREET SOCCER USA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Miramar Charitable Foundation · The Robert P and Mariana R Scripps Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Fredericksburg Social Turn Verein · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Create Healthy Management · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Adam R Scripps Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Family Peace Center of Washington County — 49% of income from government
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Intervention Services — 15% of income from government
- The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
- Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.