· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE GENRE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,400 |
| BRADFORD FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| OHIOANA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| BRADFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LEXINGTON WRITER'S ROOM | $1,000 |
| ESCAPE ARTIST FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TUNE TOGETHER FOR HOPE | $1,000 |
| BRADFORD OHIO RAILROAD MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| STRANGE HORIZONS INC | $1,000 |
| THE TROY FOUNDATON | $500 |
| BRADFORD EXEMPT VILLAGE SCHOOL | $77 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DCDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +27%
- LSLOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +71%
- LWLEXINGTON WRITERS ROOM2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
- MCMIAMI COUNTY PARK DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $3k
- HAHave A Gay Day Incone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -1%
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.
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.
Promotion of Literacy and Ohio Authors
To promote increased cultural awareness of literature, media, and art within the speculative fiction genre
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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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Seattle Genre Alliance ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds OHIOANA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON WRITERS ROOM ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Have A Gay Day Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HEINLEIN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD OHIO RAILROAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ESCAPE ARTISTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TROY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIAMI COUNTY OHIO ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Scalzi Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scalzi Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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