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Sca Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$514kInternational$303kCivil Rights$300kPhilanthropy$294kHealth$125kPublic Benefit$50kHuman Services$8kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDUCATE GIRLS$50,000
COLUMBIA GRAMMAR & PREPARATORY SCHOOL$11,000
RESONANTMIND COLLECTIVE$5,000
EASTERSEALS$2,500
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $5k → 6%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

WA
NY
CA
MO
VA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 10 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+22%

Still filing today

90%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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

  • MM
    MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
    5× · 2018–2022 · $426k · revenue +47%
  • D
    DASRA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $292k · revenue +961%
  • EG
    EDUCATE GIRLS
    2× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +484%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +59%
  • AC
    AQUILINO CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
  • EW
    Empowerment Works Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +77%
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
Indiaspora

Transforming the success of the indian diaspora into meaningful impact worldwide.

Human Services
2
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
3
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
4
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
7
Development Data Lab Inc

DDL`s Work is designed to widen public access to and use of economic, demographic and physical data that describes, defines and seeks to alleviate poverty, especially in the developing world

International
8
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
9
Equal Access International

To create positive social change for millions of under-served people across the developing world by providing critically needed information and education through innovative media, appropriate technology and direct community engagement.

Health
10
Ja Africa

The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.

Education
11
Digital Promise Global

Digital promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for each learner. we work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale up innovations that empower learners,…

International
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pursuit Transformation Company Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smalls Live Foundation Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 27 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $426,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICANew York University: $60,000 · EducationNew York University+5 more: $32,524 · Education+5 moreDASRA: $292,000 · InternationalDASRAEDUCATE GIRLS: $150,000 · InternationalEDUCATE GIRLSAmigos de las Americas: $35,000 · InternationalAmigos de las Americas+2 more: $13,000 · InternationalIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…AQUILINO CANCER CENTER: $17,160 · Other+3 more: $9,953 · OtherMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $100,000 · HealthHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthASPIRE INDIA INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $5,000 · Public BenefitSCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesSmalls Live Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JAZZ GALLERY: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$518,524International$490,000Other$327,113Health$106,000Philanthropy$102,000Public Benefit$55,000Human Services$5,000Arts & Culture$2,000

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 budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $426,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDASRA: $292,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetEDUCATE GIRLS: $150,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetASPIRE INDIA INC: $100,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAmigos de las Americas: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmpowerment Works Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArpan Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $4,524 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Adanu Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPORTS CREATIVE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JAZZ GALLERY: $1,000 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY15.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Sca Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sca Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sca Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sca Charitable 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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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