· Private foundation
Robert S & Marjorie y Scott Foundtn
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MARIN FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| FOR-SITE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $4,000 |
| MARIN COMMUNITY CLINICS | $4,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BREAD AND ROSES | $2,500 |
| NPCA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHURCH OF MILL VALLEY | $2,000 |
| WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND | $1,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +98%- FFFOR-SITE Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +30%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- UFUndocufund for fire reliefone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SASpringfield Arts Council Incone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -7%
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -40%
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Mobilizing the power of community and the resources of philanthropy to advance equity for people, places and the planet.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
Our mission is to connect and grow the region's food agriculture community from our wholesale market in the heart of san francisco. our vision is for all communities in the san francisco bay area to have reliable access to abundant fresh…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Redwoods a Community of Seniors and the most unlike its peers is Chamber Music in Yellow Springs Inc. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 51 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOR-SITE Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE REDWOODS A COMMUNITY OF SENIORS ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WEST MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC IN YELLOW SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Springfield Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT BOOKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLEN HELEN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION 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: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Extrafood · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Fred Gellert Family Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Feibusch Foundation · Harbor Point Charitable Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · McNabb 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 Robert S & Marjorie y Scott Foundtn 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.
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.