Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $45M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 176
- Grants FY2024
- 148
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 148 to 155
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 31
- Total assets, FY2024
- $588M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 146 | $44M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 148 | $42M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 153 | $44M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 155 | $44M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 150 | $38M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Heritage Foundation | $7,750,000 | 5 | 2% |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | $7,390,000 | 5 | 1% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $7,225,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies | $5,000,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education | $5,000,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Foundation for Government Accountability Inc | $3,850,000 | 5 | 6% |
| The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies | $3,550,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Hudson Institute Inc | $3,115,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Tax Foundation | $3,000,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Inc | $2,990,000 | 5 | 15% |
Show all 176 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 20 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 174 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated with peer funders
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About Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated
- How much does Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated give?
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated reported 176 grants totaling $45,317,615 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 148 and 155 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (22%), Education (20%), Social Science (14%).
- Who are Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Heritage Foundation ($7.8M), George Mason University Foundation Inc ($7.4M), American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ($7.2M).
- Does Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc.
- Where is Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated based?
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated is based in PA.
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