· Private foundation
Dona & Sam Scott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $280,000 |
| WESTCOAST BLACK THEATER TROUPE | $160,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN | $42,500 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $21,000 |
| SPARCC SAFE PLACE AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $16,000 |
| AMERICAN BUSINESS IMMIGRATION COALITION (ABIC) | $15,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| PROJECT PRIDE | $10,000 |
| BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER | $10,000 |
| MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $10,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA ART MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $3,000 |
| NAACP | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–19, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- ASAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $800k · revenue +90%
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $316k · revenue +93%- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC8× · 2018–2025 · $208k · revenue +43%
Funded once
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +48%- XTXS Tennis and Education Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +404%
- CUCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +56%
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 organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Ensemble Theater Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Covenant House. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 37 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
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 AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK ENSEMBLE THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds XS Tennis and Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds GAMMA XI BOULE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PRIDE SRQ INC ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SPORTS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOC FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE & HIS ↗
- Who funds MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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: 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
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 Dona & Sam Scott 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 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.