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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 FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.5MEducation$1.3MHuman Services$194kReligion$141kEnvironment$119kCivil Rights$104kArts & Culture$90kPhilanthropy$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $308k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER AT 353$50,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
THE WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$30,000
SALEM HOSPITAL ER DEPARTMENT$30,000
DEERFIELD ACADEMY$30,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL - DR CIARAN MCNAMEE$25,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE - DAVIS CENTER FOR DEI - ALLISON DAVIS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP$25,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE - DR PASI JANNE$15,000
PRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD$15,000
UNIDOSUS$13,000
MASS EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL - DR JENNIFER KIM FACIAL SURGERY$10,000
MASS EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL - DR SHIRLEEN CHEN OPHTHALMOLOGY$10,000
MASS EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL - DR JESSICA FEWKES DERMATOLOGY$10,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL - DR SUNIL KAPUR$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CRUZ - MAYA K PETERSON MEMORIAL FUND$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $667k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $70k → 11%RECLAIM CHILDHOOD INC: $3k → 10%SHOES THAT FIT: $1k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $10k → 14%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $70k → 11%RECLAIM CHILDHOOD INC: $1k → 10%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $61k → 11%AT THE CROSSROADS: $1k → 10%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $10k → 14%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $60k → 11%CENTER AT 353: $60k → 11%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $5k → 14%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $60k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $50k → 11%CENTER AT 353: $50k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $50k → 11%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $11k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $5k → 16%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $25k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $20k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $15k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $15k → 14%UYGHUR HUMAN RIGHS PROJECT: $1k → 14%UYGHUR HUMAN RIGHS PROJECT: $1k → 14%AYUDA: $2k → 14%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

VT
NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 56 repeat orgs$838k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
56

Total granted

$3.0M
$554k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+20%

Still filing today

50%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • CA
    CENTER AT 353 INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $531k · revenue +4%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +122%
  • DS
    DUBLIN SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $202k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $103k
  • BW
    BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S THORACIC SURGERY
    one grant, 2024 · $53k
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +13%
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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
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
3
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
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
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
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
7
Manhattanville University

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

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 141 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
45/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEVERLY HOSPITAL: $245,500 · OtherBEVERLY HOSPITALMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $102,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDNORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER - SALEM HOSPITAL: $74,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL CANCER CENTER: $65,000 · OtherSALEM HOSPITAL: $64,250 · OtherSTMARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $61,000 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE - GIL KUJOVICH MEMORIAL FUND FOR DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY: $60,000 · Other+90 more: $1,021,255 · Other+90 moreTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $265,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMYKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC: $263,956 · EducationKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INCDUBLIN SCHOOL INC: $202,000 · EducationDUBLIN SCHOOL INCTeach for America Inc: $169,653 · EducationTeach for America IncWilliams College: $144,500 · EducationWilliams CollegeBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $44,500 · Education+5 more: $46,000 · EducationCENTER AT 353 INC: $530,500 · Human ServicesCENTER AT 353 INCSeabury Resources for Aging: $100,000 · Human ServicesSeabury Resources f…ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $25,500 · Human Services+6 more: $13,000 · Human ServicesNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $32,500 · EnvironmentTHE NATIONAL BONSAI FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $14,250 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $7,500 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50,000 · HealthPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthPRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD: $15,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · Health+4 more: $8,000 · HealthHISTORIC MORVEN INC: $33,000 · Arts & CultureHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $31,250 · InternationalFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC: $2,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,500 · InternationalWORLD LEARNING INC: $2,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,250 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · International+1 more: $1,250 · International
Other$1,693,505Education$1,135,609Human Services$669,000Environment$110,250Health$103,000Arts & Culture$53,000International$46,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER AT 353 INC: $530,500 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $265,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC: $263,956 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetDUBLIN SCHOOL INC: $202,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $169,653 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $144,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeabury Resources for Aging: $100,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $44,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC MORVEN INC: $33,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $32,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $31,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Law School: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $25,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BONSAI FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetPRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $14,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDistrict of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRECLAIM CHILDHOOD INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING INDIGEOUS WOMEN RISING: $2,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUYGHUR HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD LEARNING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Washington DC dba DC History Center: $2,290 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAYUDA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 CENTER AT 353 INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds DUBLIN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds Seabury Resources for Aging ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC MORVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Vermont Law School ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 Snyder Family FundCurtis W McGraw Found…Greater Washington Co…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Princeton Area Commun…The Griffin-Cole FundVerizon FoundationThe Edward E & Marie …Vanguard Charitable E…Ibm International Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…
The Snyder Family FundDE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Snyder Family Fund · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Griffin-Cole Fund · Verizon Foundation · The Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ibm International Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • World Learning Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Reclaim Childhood Inc: 24% of income from government
  • The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis: 17% of income from government
  • Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Sally Foss & James Scott Hill Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 141 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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