· Private foundation
Lester and Anne Scaff Foundation I
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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURNHAM CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC | $43,000 |
| GEORGIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES BUREAU INC | $30,000 |
| EPHIPHANY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $27,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FL GATEWAY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| EPHIPHANY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| PREGNANCY CRISIS CENTER OF LAKE CIT | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SVS CTR OF COLUMBIA CO | $15,000 |
| PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER OF VALDOST | $15,000 |
| FIRST COAST WOMEN'S SERVICES | $15,000 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES | $15,000 |
| HAPPY HOUSE INC | $12,500 |
| CHRIST CENTRAL ALACHUA | $12,500 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG FAMILIES | $10,000 |
| ANOTHER WAY INC | $10,000 |
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, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR FLORIDA GATEWAY COLLEGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $196k · revenue +97%
- GCGeorgia Christian School Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $176k · revenue +159%
- PCPregnancy Crisis Center of Lake City Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $138k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- ECEPHIPHANY CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $30k
- FBFLORIDA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOMEone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.
To offer help and hope to women and men with unplanned pregnancy, pregnancy decisions and other life challenges.
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
Constructive alternatives to abortion and assisting women in crisis pregnancies. The mission of First Choice Center for Women, Inc. is to see the Word of God birthed in the hearts of men and women and to make abortion unnecessary and…
Providing compassion, respect, and loving care to each individual on their unique adoption journey. We commit to honoring and nurturing expectant mothers through pregnancy, birth, and life after placement.
To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.
We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.
Assist individuals and families in crisis from domestic violence, sexual assault, crime and economic emergencies. Services are also available to friends and family members of those involved.
Emergency shelter for victims of domestic abuse and supportive services to all victims of abuse
The organization serves homeless families with dependent children through an emergency and transitional residential program. the center offers physical, emotional, social and educational services to assist families in the transition to…
To provide pregnancy testing (including ultrasound examinations), counseling, and referrals as needed (including post-abortion counseling) in our offices and through our 24-hour help-line.
Family and children's services provides compassionate care, intervention and education to support people during challenging times in their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Service Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mission in Action for God Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 32 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR FLORIDA GATEWAY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Crisis Center of Lake City Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds First Coast Womens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION IN ACTION FOR GOD INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WHITE COMMUNITY THRIFTSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG FAMILIES 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: Clay Electric Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · First Federal Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lester and Anne Scaff Foundation I 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Another Way Inc — 36% of income from government
- United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc — 12% 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.
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