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John L Scott Foundation

To raise funds and sponsor events to benefit children's health needs

$364k
Granted FY2022
12
Itemized grants FY2022
12
Organizations funded FY2022
8%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$351k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$62,800
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Total assets, FY2022
$93k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 8% of the organizations John L Scott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202212$351k8%
FY20216$282k0%
FY20209$209k0%
FY201911$317k9%
FY201810$324k0%
FY201710$222kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$1.7M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John L Scott Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $611,378 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $198,282 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNorthwest Wine Benefit Foundation DBA Auction of Washington Wines: $192,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington: $174,275 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMary Bridge Children's Foundation: $110,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetProvidence Inland Northwest Foundation: $87,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDoernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation: $82,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHarrison Medical Center Foundation: $77,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCamp Korey: $75,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetAsante: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Memorial Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Glassybaby White Light FundWA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Glassybaby White Light Fund · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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.

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How do I get to John L Scott Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John L Scott 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.

About John L Scott Foundation

How much does John L Scott Foundation give?
John L Scott Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $351,021, out of $364,021 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does John L Scott Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are John L Scott Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Seattle Children's Foundation ($611k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska ($198k), Northwest Wine Benefit Foundation DBA Auction of Washington Wines ($193k).
Does John L Scott Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as John L Scott Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Glassybaby White Light Fund, Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is John L Scott Foundation based?
John L Scott Foundation is based in WA.

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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $286k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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