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Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation at a glance

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Dan & Jeanne Scott Family 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$680kEducation$584kYouth Development$412kFood & Nutrition$340kRecreation & Sports$324kHealth$254kHousing & Shelter$243kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k65 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $244k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $717k
  • $250k+1 grant · $260k
$1,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Vincent Foundation$260,000
Individual grant recipient$180,000
Tongue River Community Center$166,000
Tongue River Valley Scholarship Fund$101,000
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter$100,000
Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch$60,000
Tongue River Fire Protection District$60,000
Sheridan Memorial Hospital Foundation$50,450
Thrive$41,500
Tongue River Child's Place$29,000
Family Service Inc$28,000
Antelope Butte Foundation$26,500
Frost Fund Inc$25,750
Billings Public Education Foundation$25,000
Billings Family YMCA$22,000
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 (FY19–25, $625k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wise Place: $1k → 10%Russell Wilson Foundation: $750 → 9%Wyoming Cares: $1k → 11%Family Promise of Gallatin Valley: $50k → 10%Wise Place: $1k → 10%Help Center Inc: $50k → 10%Wise Place: $500 → 10%Wyoming Cares: $300 → 11%Wise Place: $500 → 10%Tongue River Child's Place: $29k → 10%Wyoming Cares: $300 → 11%Tongue River Child's Place: $15k → 10%Tongue River Child's Place: $11k → 10%Tongue River Child's Place: $11k → 10%Tongue River Child's Place: $10k → 10%Kherut: $750 → 10%Tongue River Child's Place: $10k → 10%Billings Family YMCA: $22k → 9%Tongue River Child's Place: $10k → 10%Child Development Center: $50k → 10%Community Leadership Development Inc: $10k → 9%Community Leadership Development Inc: $10k → 9%Patriots and Paws: $11k → 10%Patriots and Paws: $750 → 10%Billings Family YMCA: $5k → 9%Family Promise of Gallatin Valley: $250 → 10%Global Hope 365: $500 → 10%KherUT: $1k → 10%Billings Family YMCA: $1k → 9%Billings Family YMCA: $1k → 9%Billings Family YMCA: $1k → 9%Billings Family YMCA: $1k → 9%Tumbleweed: $400 → 9%Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch Foundation: $40k → 9%Senior Citizens Council: $123k → 10%Senior Citizens Council: $43k → 10%Senior Citizens Council: $33k → 10%Tumbleweed: $36k → 9%Tumbleweed: $6k → 9%Tumbleweed: $4k → 9%Senior Citizens Council: $10k → 10%Senior Citizens Council: $4k → 10%Senior Citizens Council: $3k → 10%Senior Citizens Council: $3k → 10%Sheridan Foster Parent Exchange: $1k → 10%Sheridan Foster Parent Exchange: $500 → 10%Sheridan Foster Parent Exchange: $500 → 10%Sheridan Foster Parent Exchange: $250 → 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

ME
WA
MT
MN
WI
WY
SD
IN
CA
CO
AZ
NM
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 96 repeat orgs$996k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
49

Total granted

$5.0M
$709k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+3%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k 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
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsReligionCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • TR
    TONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $378k · revenue +21%
  • TI
    THRIVE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $353k · revenue +2%
  • YV
    YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER
    5× · 2020–2025 · $261k · revenue +303%

Funded once

  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -1%
  • TM
    THE MONTANA STOCKGROWERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • RF
    RIMROCK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -14%
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
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
2
Wyoming Sheep Foundation
Food & Nutrition
3
Cowboy State Daily

Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.

Arts & Culture
4
Scenic Montana Trails
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5
Wyoming County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Provide shelter, food, medical care and adoption services to abused, neglected, homeless and abandoned animals.

Animals
6
Montana Wilderness School

The mission of the montana wilderness school is to provide empowering expeditionary wilderness courses to youth that foster personal growth and cultivate a conservation ethic through connecting with remote landscapes and wild places.

Environment
7
Better Wyoming

Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.

Public Benefit
8
Wyldflower Learning Community Inc

To provide students a learning environment where they can develop independence, cultivate passions, and grow the skill sets needed to be successful and fulfilled in life

—
9
Singing Waters Montana

To greatfully steward the land and singing waters with respect and care. To build a beloved community that values justice, equality, and love.

Recreation & Sports
10
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
11
Wyoming State Fair Foundation

To ensure that the Wyoming State Fair serves as a vibrant celebration of our states agriculture, youth, education, heritage, and industry, while evolving to meet the needs of future generations. WSFF is the fundraising arm of the WSF,…

Recreation & Sports
12
ZooMontana Inc

Our mission is to provide visitors with an engaging, recreational, and educational experience, while ensuring exceptional care for our animal and plant collections and supporting responsible propagation programs for species in need.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies; the most unlike its peers is Evelyn Cameron Heritage Inc Evelyn Cameron 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

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 167 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/103
Grantees still filing
61/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Homer & Mildred Scott Foundation: $500,000 · OtherHomer & Mildred Scott FoundationTHRIVE INC: $352,600 · OtherTHRIVE INCSt Vincent Foundation: $298,250 · OtherSt Vincent FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $180,500 · OtherTongue River Community Center: $166,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $160,500 · OtherSheridan Memorial Hospital Foundation: $157,000 · Other+108 more: $2,034,952 · Other+108 moreSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $218,400 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZE…TONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE: $96,250 · Human ServicesTONGUE RIVER …FAMILY SERVICE: $88,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVIC…FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $50,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMIS…HELP CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHELP CENTER I…CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILD DEVELOP…TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC: $47,100 · Human ServicesTUMBLEWEED RU…YELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT: $40,000 · Human ServicesYELLOWSTONE B…BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC: $31,000 · Human Services+10 more: $45,400 · Human Services+10 moreROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $157,000 · EducationTONGUE RIVER VALLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $103,500 · EducationNorthern Wyoming Community College Foundation: $70,000 · EducationSHERIDAN HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $25,650 · EducationSTORY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $25,000 · Education+8 more: $27,813 · EducationTONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $377,750 · Community ImprovementYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $261,000 · AnimalsDOG & CAT SHELTER INC: $38,000 · AnimalsFrost Fund Inc: $25,750 · Animals+9 more: $20,850 · AnimalsANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC: $179,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $86,500 · Recreation & SportsSHERIDAN ON SKATES: $28,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsTHE FOOD GROUP INC: $102,750 · Food & NutritionWYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST: $12,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,849,802Human Services$716,650Education$408,963Community Improvement$377,750Animals$345,600Recreation & Sports$294,000Food & Nutrition$116,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $377,750 over 6y, 18% of budgetTHRIVE INC: $352,600 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $261,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $218,400 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC: $179,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE: $157,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTONGUE RIVER VALLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $103,500 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE FOOD GROUP INC: $102,750 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $102,250 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetMONTANA RESCUE MISSION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE: $96,250 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE EASTERN BIGHORNS INC: $90,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE: $88,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $86,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNorthern Wyoming Community College Foundation: $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetYELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $50,250 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MONTANA STOCKGROWERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetRIMROCK FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWYOMING STOCK GROWERS ENDOWMENT TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHELP CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSHERIDAN KIDS LIFE: $50,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetTUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM INC: $47,100 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCOMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES: $42,700 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetYELLOWSTONE BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH FOUNDAT: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOG & CAT SHELTER INC: $38,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetBILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSHERIDAN ON SKATES: $28,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetFrost Fund Inc: $25,750 over 1y, 20% of budgetSHERIDAN HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $25,650 over 2y, 12% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $25,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSTORY COMMUNITY LIBRARY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBILLINGS EXCHANGE CLUBS CHILD ABUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWYOMING AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $24,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJOEY'S FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP BETHEL INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF MONTANA SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROSE PARK PTA: $15,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetWYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPATRIOTS AND PAWS: $11,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEVELYN CAMERON HERITAGE INC EVELYN CAMERON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetROOTED IN WYOMING: $10,000 over 2y, 3.4% 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 TONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TONGUE RIVER VALLEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds TONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE EASTERN BIGHORNS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Northern Wyoming Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BILLINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTANA STOCKGROWERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds RIMROCK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING STOCK GROWERS ENDOWMENT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HELP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHERIDAN KIDS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds TUMBLEWEED RUNAWAY PROGRAM 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.

First Interstate Banc…Homer A Scott & Mildr…Montana Community Fou…Wyoming Community Fou…Homer A Jr & Janet Sc…Joe and Arlene Watt F…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Bf & Rose H Perkins F…The Seidler FoundationGianforte Family Char…Chandler H Kibbee and…Charles M Bair Family…
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT73.5× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Wyoming Community Foundation · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundation · The Seidler Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Chandler H Kibbee and Mercedes K Kibbee Foundation for Children · Charles M Bair Family Trust

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 Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 167 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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