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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.

$35M
Granted FY2024still arriving
281
Grants FY2024still arriving
27
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$16MHuman Services$7.8MEducation$5.3MArts & Culture$4.7MHousing & Shelter$4.7MScience & Tech$4.6MFood & Nutrition$3.1MAnimals$2.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 281 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k87 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k116 grants · $11M
  • $250k+46 grants · $22M
$50,000
Median grant
27
States reached
$755M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc$1,000,000
Foundation Communities$1,000,000
Scripps Health Foundation$778,000
Sundari Foundation Inc$717,000
College Possible$701,200
SA Christian Hope Resource Center$600,000
Mobile Loaves & Fishes$500,000
EAA Aviation Foundation Inc$500,000
Admiral Nimitz Foundation$500,000
Hill Country Community Needs Council$500,000
Miami University$500,000
FBG Friends of the Fields$500,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Undue Medical Debt: $100k → 13%Joyful Heart Foundation: $317k → 20%Hill Country Youth Commercial Heifer Show and Sale: $25k → 13%Hill Country Youth Ranch: $193k → 13%Headwaters for Heroes: $200k → 17%Domestic Violence Intervention Services Inc: $100k → 15%Pivot Inc: $100k → 16%Linus Project: $10k → 8%Friends of Disabled Adults and Children: $250k → 14%Ashlie's Embrace: $150k → 13%Ohio Domestic Violence Network: $100k → 15%One Simple Wish: $50k → 11%Hill Country Youth Ranch: $150k → 13%Friends of Disabled Adults and Children: $125k → 14%The Place: $50k → 9%Ashlie's Embrace: $60k → 13%One Simple Wish: $10k → 11%Puppies Behind Bars: $100k → 17%Hill Country Youth Ranch: $150k → 13%Headwaters for Heroes: $15k → 17%Friends of Disabled Adults and Children: $75k → 14%The Place: $10k → 9%Ashlies Embrace: $20k → 13%Foster Village: $60k → 10%Hill Country Youth Ranch: $80k → 13%Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $100k → 16%Foster Village: $60k → 10%Hill Country Youth Ranch: $50k → 13%Dallas Hearing Foundation: $50k → 14%Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $10k → 16%Hill Country Youth Ranch: $50k → 13%Hill Country Youth Ranch: $20k → 13%Changinggears Inc: $250k → 16%Street Soccer USA Inc: $304k → 17%Gillespie County Committee On Aging: $252k → 10%Street Soccer USA Inc: $50k → 17%Changingears Inc: $10k → 16%Wesley Community Services: $100k → 16%Boysville Inc: $20k → 16%Gillespie County Committee On Aging: $100k → 10%Guide Dogs of Texas Inc: $10k → 16%TESSA: $10k → 9%ChildSafe: $150k → 16%ChildSafe: $150k → 16%Mom Center: $100k → 10%ChildSafe: $25k → 16%Mom Center: $50k → 10%Mom Center: $13k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47M · 102 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
62

Total granted

$47M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+11%

Still filing today

93%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +43%
  • SH
    SCRIPPS HEALTH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +24%
  • AH
    AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • FT
    FEEDING TEXAS
    one grant, 2023 · $900k · revenue +15%
  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $550k · revenue -12%
  • TG
    The Grace Center In Fredericksburg
    one grant, 2023 · $413k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas Tribune Inc

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…

Education
2
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
3
Cook Children's Medical Center

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.

Health
4
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
5
Cook Children's Health Plan

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.

Health
6
Spca of Texas

The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.

Animals
7
Health Care Without Harm

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…

Environment
8
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

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.

Health
9
Cook Children's Physician Network

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.

Health
10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

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.

Education
12
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas; 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.
04the grantee network

228 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
227/228
Grantees still filing
119/228
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $4,050,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGOAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,400,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,010,000 · OtherHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL: $1,000,000 · OtherFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $1,250,000 · OtherMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $1,045,000 · OtherFBG FRIENDS OF THE FIELDS: $1,000,000 · Other+110 more: $18,985,755 · Other+110 moreTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $4,131,666 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARC…SCRIPPS HEALTH: $2,706,148 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $700,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL…THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC: $615,000 · HealthTHE MIRACLE FOUNDAT…NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $525,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $350,000 · Health+12 more: $1,410,000 · Health+12 moreSA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesSA CHRIST…HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $692,500 · Human ServicesHILL COUN…FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN TOO INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…STREET SOCCER USA INC: $353,567 · Human ServicesSTREET SO…GILLESPIE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING iNC: $351,854 · Human ServicesGILLESPIE…CHILDSAFE: $325,000 · Human ServicesCHILDSAFEJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $316,500 · Human ServicesJOYFUL HE…CHANGINGGEARS INC: $260,000 · Human ServicesASHLIES EMBRACE: $230,000 · Human ServicesHEADWATERS FOR HEROES: $215,000 · Human Services+14 more: $1,226,750 · Human Services+14 moreEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $758,332 · Arts & CultureADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $720,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BEDFORD LIGHT: $375,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $375,000 · Arts & CultureHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $345,000 · Arts & CultureSEA TURTLE INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $693,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $4,605,000 · Science & TechCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $1,105,800 · EducationTHE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL: $670,424 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $325,000 · EducationTHE HERITAGE FAMILY SCHOOL: $282,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $210,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $176,668 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN: $165,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $140,000 · EducationFREDERICKSBURG EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC: $135,000 · Education+8 more: $482,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $900,000 · PhilanthropyThe Scripps Howard Foundation: $720,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $550,000 · PhilanthropyNMDP FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyScripps Howard Fund: $360,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $220,000 · Philanthropy
Other$29,740,755Health$10,437,814Human Services$5,421,171Arts & Culture$4,716,332Science & Tech$4,605,000Education$3,867,392Philanthropy$3,150,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $4,605,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $4,131,666 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $2,706,148 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,400,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $1,250,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $1,105,800 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $1,045,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $1,010,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFBG FRIENDS OF THE FIELDS: $1,000,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetSA CHRISTIAN HOPE RESOURCE CNTR INC DBA SA HOPE CENTER: $1,000,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL: $1,000,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $900,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $900,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $800,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC: $767,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $758,332 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $730,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Scripps Howard Foundation: $720,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $720,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $700,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $692,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL: $670,424 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC: $615,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $570,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $550,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $550,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $550,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $525,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN TOO INC: $450,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF CIBOLO WILDERNESS: $400,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTRACYSPAWSRESCUE: $380,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetNEW BEDFORD LIGHT: $375,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAUSTIN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $375,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetScripps Howard Fund: $360,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $353,567 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetGILLESPIE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING iNC: $351,854 over 2y, 25% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $350,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC: $345,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDSAFE: $325,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $320,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $316,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $306,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FAMILY SCHOOL: $282,500 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $270,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Miramar Charitable Fo…The Robert P and Mari…The Community Foundat…San Antonio Area Foun…Dian Graves Owen Foun…Hal & Charlie Peterso…Faye L & William L Co…Fredericksburg Social…Harvey E Najim Charit…Create Healthy Manage…Carl C Anderson Sr an…Austin Community Foun…
Miramar Charitable FoundationKY87.1× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Adam R Scripps Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adam R Scripps Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
58report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 269 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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