· Private foundation
Scalzi Family Foundation 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE GENRE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BRADFORD FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| BRADFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| OHIOANA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LEXINGTON WRITER'S ROOM | $1,000 |
| ESCAPE ARTIST FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BRADFORD OHIO RAILROAD MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| STRANGE HORIZONS INC | $1,000 |
| TUNE TOGETHER FOR HOPE | $1,000 |
| THE TROY FOUNDATON | $500 |
| BRADFORD EXEMPT VILLAGE SCHOOL | $77 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DCDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +27%
- LWLEXINGTON WRITERS ROOM2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +27%
- LSLOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
- MCMIAMI COUNTY PARK DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $3k
- BRBRADFORD RAILROAD MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Promotion of Literacy and Ohio Authors
To promote increased cultural awareness of literature, media, and art within the speculative fiction genre
The horror writers association (hwa) is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the intersts of those who write it. hwa was formed in the late 1980s with…
Expand the impact of the literay arts
Facilitating public access to and appreciation of science fiction literature.
The mission of the Brattleboro Literary Festival is to unite readers in the celebration of diverse ideas books and the power of words that will enhance the cultural vibrancy of Brattleboro and beyond. It was a celebration in 2023 featuring…
The mission of the Hurston Wright Foundation is to mentor discover and honor Black writers providing community and professional development through culturally relevant services support and opportunities.
The mission of the solae foundation is the promotion of education and the study of science through the reading and writing of books, through promoting appreciation of art and through aiding educational efforts in these areas. we accomplish…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohioana Library Association and the most unlike its peers is Bradford Ohio Railroad Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Seattle Genre Alliance ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON WRITERS ROOM ↗
- Who funds LOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIOANA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEINLEIN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ESCAPE ARTISTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Have A Gay Day Inc ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD OHIO RAILROAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIAMI COUNTY OHIO ↗
- Who funds THE TROY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Scalzi Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.