· Private foundation
Joyce and Vd Scott 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 $10k32 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORFOLK ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| LEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC | $20,000 |
| WKU WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FDN | $13,000 |
| ONTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HENDERSON | $10,000 |
| GRANBY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ALCOTT SCHOOL PTG | $10,000 |
| BARRET CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| CONCORD MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HENDERSON GOODFELLOWS INC | $7,500 |
| GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH | $6,750 |
| HENDERSON CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC | $6,568 |
| ST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| HOLY NAME OF JESUS - ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AUDUBON INC | $5,000 |
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, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
60 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 8 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- LCLEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +39%
- CHCLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC6× · 2018–2023 · $66k · revenue +109%
- AKAUDUBON KIDS ZONE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue ×26
Funded once
- NCNORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +18%
- IUIGNITE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TBTHELMA B JOHNSON EARLY LEARNING CTRone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 mission of kentucky christian university is to educate students for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions throughout the world.
Hesston college is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to serve mennonite church usa in its educational interests and to maintain and operate a college for educational, benevolent, charitable, and religious purposes.
The mission of lindsey wilson university is to serve the educational needs of students by providing a living-learning environment within an atmosphere of active caring and christian concern where every student, every day, learns and grows…
To partner with families and provide students with a firm foundation, comprising and growing relationship with jesus christ and relentless pursuit of excellence in academics, athletics, and the arts through which studentes are equipped to…
Education of students from preschool to 12th grade
Educate preschool through twelfth grade children in a Christian environment while developing them spiritually,academically, emotionally, and physically with Jesus Christ as their standard and the Bible as their foundation.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
The mission of harrells christian academy is to prepare each student for higher education within an environment that instills judeo-christian values, fosters self-discipline, enhances creativity, and promises a love and respect for…
To provide a christian grade school education for those desiring it in hudsonville, mi and surrounding areas.
Hampton christian academy provides a private christian education for grades 4k through 12th grade.
Kentucky country day school challenges its students to achieve their highest level of academic excellence and to grow into honorable men and women of confidence and integrity. we inspire personal growth through a diverse community and…
We prepare students in our christian academic community to excel as thoughtful, resourceful, and responsible citizens with a passion for serving god, the church, and the world. we accomplish this through excellent teaching, high…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunrise Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Hope Animal Rescue Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 89 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 COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON KY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON KIDS ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AUDUBON INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Heals Inc ↗
- Who funds Samford University ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 AIDS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAMS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sarah Smith Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON AREA ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FATHER BRADLEY SHELTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN 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: Raymond B Preston Family Foundation · Community Foundation of West Kyinc · United Way of Henderson County · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Methodist Health Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Lester E Yeager Charitable Trust B · Owensboro Health Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Michael E Horn Family Foundation Inc Ima
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 Joyce and Vd 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Emerson Hospital — 3% 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.