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John H and Regina K Scully Foundation at a glance

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John H and Regina K Scully 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.

$38M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$302MArts & Culture$1.8MScience & Tech$1.7MHuman Services$525kYouth Development$340kPhilanthropy$300kEnvironment$160kInternational$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+7 grants · $37M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$724M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Artemis Rising Foundation$25,000,000
Making Waves Academy$7,100,000
Making Waves Foundation$3,488,263
Making Waves Foundation$335,004
Creative Visions Foundation$250,000
Society of the Four Arts$250,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation$250,000
WomenOne$150,000
WomenOne$150,000
Pamoja Initiative$100,000
Liberty Science Center$100,000
iMentor$100,000
Chandler Lodge Foundation$100,000
Academy Musuem Foundation$100,000
AHA Attitude Harmony Achievement$100,000
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 (FY22–24, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Fashion Trust US: $15k → 16%Good Plus Foundation: $100k → 17%The Retreat: $50k → 7%Good Plus Foundation: $25k → 17%WomenOne: $150k → 17%WomenOne: $150k → 17%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

NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$402M · 15 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -2% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$402M
$462k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
-19%

Still filing today

87%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MW
    MAKING WAVES ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $52M · revenue +76% · 46% of their budget
  • LS
    LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER
    2× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +46%
  • KB
    KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS
    4× · 2019–2022 · $800k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • GD
    Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -40%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • RI
    Retreat Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +23%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
5
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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6
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
7
Berggruen Institute
Education
8
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
The Conversationalist
—
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
12
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Making Waves Academy; the most unlike its peers is Coastwatch Wildlife Society. 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

41 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. 41 of the 50 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
14/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $245,680,738 · EducationMAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATIONMAKING WAVES ACADEMY: $52,000,000 · EducationMAKING WAVES ACADEMY+6 more: $4,037,000 · EducationArtemis Rising Foundation formerly Phoebe Snow Foundation: $99,510,827 · OtherArtemis Rising Foundation fo…+22 more: $1,967,000 · OtherLIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER: $1,600,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $250,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $129,750 · Arts & CultureWOMENONE LTD: $300,000 · Human ServicesGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesRetreat Inc: $50,000 · Human Services+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $250,000 · PhilanthropyGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $30,000 · PhilanthropyAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $125,000 · HealthSTARCROSS KIN WORLDWIDE: $40,200 · HealthPROJECT ALS INC: $25,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthIMENTOR INC: $200,000 · Youth Development
Education$301,717,738Other$101,477,827Arts & Culture$2,329,750Human Services$490,000Philanthropy$280,000Health$215,200Youth Development$200,000

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 budgetMAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $245,680,738 over 8y, 95% of budgetArtemis Rising Foundation formerly Phoebe Snow Foundation: $99,510,827 over 3y, 83% of budgetMAKING WAVES ACADEMY: $52,000,000 over 8y, 46% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,640,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER: $1,600,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $800,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $350,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWOMENONE LTD: $300,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOCEANA INC: $155,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAMPTON LIFEGUARD ASSOCIATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetGOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $125,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCHANDLER LODGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $87,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMBER WAVES FARM INC: $65,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGeena Davis Institute on Gender in Media: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRetreat Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEN GARDE ARTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $29,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSUNNY CENTER FOUNDATION USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTWATCH WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetFASHION TRUST US: $15,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJumpstart Labs Inc DBA Jewish JUMPSTART JSLABS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEAP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE MIND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundThe Chicago Community…Marin Community Found…The Ford FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Marin Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 John H and Regina K Scully Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John H and Regina K Scully Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Liberty Science Center: 14% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to John H and Regina K Scully Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John H and Regina K Scully 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 50 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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