Florida · Private foundation
Dona & Sam Scott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $610k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $280,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Dona & Sam Scott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $610k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $390k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $385k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $344k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $399k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $329k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $586k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $330k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| After School Matters Inc | $800,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc | $315,850 | 3 | 1% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ringling College of Art and Design Inc | $208,125 | 8 | 0% |
| Black Ensemble Theater Corporation | $180,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Chicago Council on Global Affairs | $135,000 | 3 | 1% |
| All Faiths Food Bank Inc | $131,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc | $61,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Cara Program | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dona & Sam Scott Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Dona & Sam Scott Foundation
- How much does Dona & Sam Scott Foundation give?
- Dona & Sam Scott Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $609,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dona & Sam Scott Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Youth Development (22%), Education (9%).
- Who are Dona & Sam Scott Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: After School Matters Inc ($800k), Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc ($316k), The Barack Obama Foundation ($300k).
- Does Dona & Sam Scott Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dona & Sam Scott Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dona & Sam Scott Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, AbbVie Foundation, The Allstate Foundation.
- Where is Dona & Sam Scott Foundation based?
- Dona & Sam Scott Foundation is based in FL.
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