· Private foundation
Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILA | $28,000 |
| FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC | $15,000 |
| THE BALDWIN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN | $5,000 |
| WHYY INC | $3,000 |
| FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| US FUND FOR UNICEF | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVIC | $2,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $2,000 |
| TONALITY | $1,000 |
| MANNA | $1,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF P | $1,000 |
| THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPAN | $1,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 10 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- BMBRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +3%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +24%- TBTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF ISREAL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2024 · $14k
- CRCICERO RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- FDFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -89%
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 philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
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,…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 38 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds TONALITY ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EDUCATING COMMUNITIES FOR PARENTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GARRETT WILLIAMSON ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% 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.