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Scandling Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$258k
Granted FY2017
27
Grants FY2017
25
Organizations funded FY2017
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100% of Scandling Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Scandling Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $258k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

16
’17
0
’18
0
’19
0
’20
0
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$10,250
Largest grant, FY2017
$12,000
States reached, FY2017
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$6.1MEducation$72kYouth Development$41kArts & Culture$31kEnvironment$21kCrime & Legal$10kEmployment$10kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Scandling Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRedwood City Education Foundation: $10,250 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSan Mateo County Sheriffs Activities League: $10,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEast Palo Alto Kids Foundation: $10,250 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMusic In Schools Today: $10,250 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetConservation Earth Inc: $10,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSpark: $10,250 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula: $10,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJobtrain Inc: $10,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $10,250 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRedwood City Friends of Literacy: $10,250 over 1y, 15% of budgetBreakthrough Silicon Valley: $10,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGirls Incorporated of the Central Coast: $10,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRedwood City Library Foundation: $10,250 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMarine Science Institute: $10,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budget826 Valencia: $10,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA24.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Doering Family Foundation · Quest Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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About Scandling Family Foundation

How much does Scandling Family Foundation give?
Scandling Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $257,500 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Scandling Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Philanthropy (96%), Education (1%), Youth Development (1%).
Who are Scandling Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Redwood City Education Foundation ($10k), San Mateo County Sheriffs Activities League ($10k), East Palo Alto Kids Foundation ($10k).
Does Scandling Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Scandling Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Atkinson Foundation, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation.
Where is Scandling Family Foundation based?
Scandling Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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