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Blue Scooter Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$107k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$138kEnvironment$120kHealth$86kInternational$61kEmployment$57kHousing & Shelter$10kCivil Rights$6kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL$37,500
FINDING HOPE FOR FRRS1$10,000
SLIDE RANCH$9,380
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$8,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE$8,000
MILL VALLEY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$6,000
1 FOR 3 ORG$5,000
PROTECT OUR WINTERS$5,000
NAMASTE DIRECT$3,300
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$3,000
MIT ALUM ASSOC$3,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC$2,500
COOLEFFECT$2,308
EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FA$1,100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%1 FOR 3 ORG: $5k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $38k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $16k → 17%350ORG: $3k → 20%RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $25k → 5%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $16k → 17%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $9k → 22%HOPE FOR FRRS1: $12k → 11%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $8k → 12%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $5k → 8%1 FOR 3 ORG: $3k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $35k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $12k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $13k → 17%WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $17k → 14%FINDING HOPE FOR FRRS1: $10k → 11%PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $5k → 8%MIT ALUM ASSOC: $5k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $18k → 8%NAMASTE DIRECT: $3k → 10%DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $11k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $11k → 17%WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $13k → 14%MIT ALUM ASSOC: $5k → 8%MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $16k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $9k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $9k → 17%THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $13k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $8k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 17%WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $11k → 14%MILL VALLEY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $8k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 17%THE OCEAN FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%MILL VALLEY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%KIDDO: $5k → 8%MILL VALLEY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%MILL VALLEY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%SLIDE RANCH: $9k → 8%SLIDE RANCH: $5k → 8%SLIDE RANCH: $5k → 8%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
AR
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$512k · 17 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$512k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+58%

Still filing today

65%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthInternationalEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • MM
    MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $119k · revenue +18%
  • WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $41k · revenue +34%
  • The Ocean Foundation
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • RV
    RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +58%
  • HF
    HOPE FOR FRRS1
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • K
    KIDDO
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Rare

Rare inspires change so people and nature thrive.

Environment
2
Breakthrough Energy Foundation

Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.

Public Benefit
3
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
7
Global Carbon Market Utility Governing Council Inc

Global carbon market utility governing council inc (gcmu governing council inc) is dedicated to dramatically reducing the amount of carbon dioxide and related greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere, thereby helping to preserve and…

Environment
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
10
Gordon Research Conferences Inc

The gordon research conferences, inc. provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, physical and engineering sciences and their interfaces. *see schedule o*

Science & Tech
11
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
12
Future 500

See attached statementprimary missionfuture 500 builds trust between corporations, advocates, investors, and philanthropists to advance business as a force for good. we are experts in stakeholder engagement with over 25 years of experience…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Worldwide; the most unlike its peers is Finding Hope for FRRS1L. 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

16 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. 16 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $66,182 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALAM CANCER SOC CANCER: $41,100 · OtherAM CANCER SOC CANCERMILL VALLEY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $22,113 · OtherMILL VALLEY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $16,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAMIT ALUM ASSOC: $16,000 · OtherMIT ALUM ASSOCHOPE FOR FRRS1: $12,000 · OtherHOPE FOR FRRS1HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $9,000 · Other+10 more: $20,058 · Other+10 moreMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $118,900 · EducationMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOLTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $16,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF …DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $64,766 · InternationalDRESS FOR SUCCESS WOR…WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $41,100 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTI…1for3org Inc: $8,000 · International1for3org IncThe Ocean Foundation: $35,000 · EnvironmentThe Ocean Foundati…SLIDE RANCH: $22,577 · EnvironmentSLIDE RANCHCool Effect Inc: $14,908 · EnvironmentCool Effect IncPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $13,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTER…350ORG: $10,100 · Environment350ORGRARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $25,200 · HealthFinding Hope for FRRS1L: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,600 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Other$202,953Education$135,400International$113,866Environment$95,585Health$42,800Civil Rights$2,500

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 budgetMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $118,900 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $64,766 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $41,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $25,200 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSLIDE RANCH: $22,577 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMILL VALLEY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $22,113 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCool Effect Inc: $14,908 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget350ORG: $10,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFinding Hope for FRRS1L: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget1for3org Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAMASTE FOUNDATION: $3,300 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SLIDE RANCH ↗
  • Who funds MILL VALLEY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cool Effect Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗
  • Who funds Finding Hope for FRRS1L ↗
  • Who funds 1for3org Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMASTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗

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.

Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Blue Scooter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Scooter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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