· Private foundation
S Spencer Scott Fund Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| WESTMINISTER SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION | $2,250 |
| HSW ANNUAL FUND | $2,000 |
| DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CHATHAM ROCK ISLAND INC | $1,800 |
| CHURCH AT POINT OWOODS | $1,500 |
| SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| PUPPLIES BEHIND BARS | $1,000 |
| ST GEORGE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST JOHN'S COLLEGE | $500 |
| SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| HERON SOCIETY WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE | $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 (FY18–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
58 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 34 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TOTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +10%
- THTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +214%
THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +174%
Funded once
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +71%- HAHWS ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2020 · $1k
- NNEFESEone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Education and Research
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 75 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 POINT O'WOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM ROCK ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EVOKE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LIFE FLIGHT NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mancos Valley Resources ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 S Spencer Scott Fund Inc 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.
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- St John's College — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% 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.