Massachusetts · Private foundation
Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation
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.
- $465k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $465k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $460k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $424k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $448k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $503k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $422k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $385k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $403k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center at 353 Inc | $530,500 | 9 | 5% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $265,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Kipp Massachusetts Inc | $263,956 | 7 | 4% |
| Dublin School Inc | $202,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $169,653 | 4 | 0% |
| Williams College | $144,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $102,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Seabury Resources for Aging | $100,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Stmarks Episcopal Church | $61,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation with peer funders
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About Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation
- How much does Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation give?
- Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $465,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Education (35%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center at 353 Inc ($531k), Trustees of Deerfield Academy ($265k), Kipp Massachusetts Inc ($264k).
- Does Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation 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 Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Snyder Family Fund, Curtis W McGraw Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
- Where is Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation based?
- Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation is based in MA.
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