· Private foundation
Kenneth W Scott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $396k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $100,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC | $75,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATI | $60,500 |
| EUCLID PET PALS | $60,000 |
| SHORE HAVEN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $50,000 |
| LUTHERN EAST HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| WESTERN RESERVE HUMANE SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| EUCLID HUNGER CENTER | $25,000 |
| TENDER MERCIES INC | $25,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $25,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE FOUNDAT | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +134%
- EPEUCLID PET PALS9× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +233% · 26% of their budget
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
- CLCLEVELAND LUTHERAN WEST HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $13k
- LCLUTHERAN CHAPLAINCY SERVICEone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Dedicated to ending animal abuse and exploitation through education, public outreach and investigations.
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
To fight animal cruelty, help animals in need and advocate for their well-being.
Since 1944, the north shore animal league america's mission has been to save the lives of pets through adoption, rescue, education, medical care, spay/neuter and advocacy.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds EUCLID PET PALS ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN ENDOWMENT & AID FUNDINC ↗
- Who funds SAFARI JOES WILDLIFE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SAVE A PET INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kenneth W Scott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth W Scott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
How this is measured
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