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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.

$80k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$28,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$347k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalCivil RightsFood & NutritionCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$80k53%
FY202416$55k38%
FY202313$49k0%
FY202215$52k13%
FY202116$47k19%
FY202013$47k38%
FY20198$32k0%
FY20188$32k13%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$262kArts & Culture$91kEducation$71kInternational$65kHealth$39kFood & Nutrition$38kCivil Rights$18kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBryn Mawr Theatre Film Institute: $59,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Baldwin School: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Southeastern Pa: $34,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWhyy Inc: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $19,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProject Home: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Youth Basketball Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Inc of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFederation Day Care Services D/B/A Federation Early Learning Services: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTonality: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Global Hunger Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarrett Williamson: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducating Communities for Parenting Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee

How much does Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee give?
Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee reported 19 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Arts & Culture (14%), Education (11%).
Who are Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bryn Mawr Theatre Film Institute ($59k), The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($45k), The Baldwin School ($41k).
Does Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee based?
Ruth and Earl Scott Charitable Trust Samuel Scott Trustee is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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