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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.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$87kArts & Culture$43kEnvironment$37kRecreation & Sports$26kHealth$26kReligion$20kPhilanthropy$12kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
12
States reached
$570k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $500 → 17%PUPPLIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%PUPPLIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%PUPPLIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%PUPPLIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MD
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$258k · 58 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
14

Total granted

$258k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+52%

Still filing today

43%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • TH
    THE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +214%
  • THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +71%
  • N
    NEFESE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • ER
    EAGLE RIVER FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
3
Dickinson College

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

Education
4
Phillips Exeter Academy

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…

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
Pembroke Hill School

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."

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

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
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
26/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTMINISTER SCHOOL: $11,000 · OtherWESTMINISTER SCHOOLTHE CHURCH AT POW: $8,950 · OtherTHE CHURCH AT POWHSW ANNUAL FUND: $7,000 · OtherHSW ANNUAL FUNDHWSWS ATHLETICS ENDOWMENT FUND: $6,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherCHURCH AT POINT OWOODS: $6,000 · OtherCHURCH OF POW: $5,250 · OtherMERCY HOSPITAL: $4,635 · OtherCHATHAM ROCK ISLAND INC: $9,300 · OtherCHATHAM ROCK ISLAND INCPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $7,500 · OtherPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC+41 more: $51,585 · Other+41 moreTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOO…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $13,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $9,500 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOLSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $7,000 · EducationSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACAD…HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $5,000 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEESST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $4,500 · EducationST JOHN'S COLLEGEETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $2,950 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $2,700 · Education+2 more: $3,250 · EducationPOINT O'WOODS FOUNDATION INC: $26,885 · PhilanthropyPOINT O'WO…+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $11,550 · Recreation & SportsTHE BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,350 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $250 · Recreation & SportsTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $15,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $6,500 · HealthEVOKE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthLIFE FLIGHT NETWORK FOUNDATION: $1,750 · HealthNEW ENGLAND CONNECTION FOR PKU AND ALLIED DISORDERS INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthGREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF FORT GORGES: $750 · Arts & Culture
Other$123,470Education$72,900Philanthropy$27,085Recreation & Sports$17,150Youth Development$16,500Health$12,500Arts & Culture$12,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOINT O'WOODS FOUNDATION INC: $26,885 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $11,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $11,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $9,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM ROCK ISLAND INC: $9,300 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,350 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVOKE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $2,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $2,835 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $2,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE: $2,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE FLIGHT NETWORK FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMancos Valley Resources: $1,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONNECTION FOR PKU AND ALLIED DISORDERS INC: $1,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF FORT GORGES: $750 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Mancos Valley Resources ↗
  • Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The Ayco Charitable F…The Robert Wood Johns…Boston Foundation IncChubb Charitable Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization S Spencer Scott Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S Spencer Scott Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 75 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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