· Private foundation
Joseph M Scaminace 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLA ANGELA ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL | $23,268 |
| HOPEWELL | $19,645 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $9,146 |
| NOIA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER BY THE RIVER EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| GEAUGA BLUECOATS INC | $1,375 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS | $513 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION | $203 |
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 (FY17–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- UOUniversity of Dayton2× · 2020–2021 · $103k · revenue +27%
- HHOPEWELL8× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +85%
- NFNOIA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +10%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +34%- YCYOUR CAUSEone grant, 2019 · $15k
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To provide for women the best undergraduate residential liberal arts education along with select graduate programs, in the catholic and benedictine traditions. the college fosters integrated learning, exceptional leadership for change and…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parker-Hannifin Foundation. 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 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 46 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 CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NOIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Village at Marymount ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSION4MAUREEN ↗
- Who funds PARKER-HANNIFIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEAUGA BLUECOATSINC ↗
- Who funds URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOMANKIND INC ↗
- Who funds JULIE BILLIART NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds VETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEASCEND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC ↗
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: Samuel H & Maria Miller Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Sam J Frankino Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Joseph M Scaminace 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% 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.