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Scanlan Family 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.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$4.0M
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$42MRecreation & Sports$5.0MPhilanthropy$4.9MAnimals$3.1MHealth$2.3MArts & Culture$1.7MScience & Tech$250kEnvironment$185kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
  • $250k+9 grants · $17M
$1,000,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$103M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL$4,000,000
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$4,000,000
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION$3,925,998
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1,500,000
GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,250,000
DESMOINES JEWISH FOUNDATION$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION$523,528
FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY$300,000
JAZZ AT ASPEN - SNOWMASS$250,000
Individual grant recipient$140,000
BIGELOW LABRATORY FOR OCEAN SERVICES$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $300k → 16%PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 8%USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1.1M → 17%BROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25k → 20%DESMOINES JEWISH FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 5%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 10%STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $3.9M → 15%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $5.0M → 11%JAZZ AT ASPEN - SNOWMASS: $250k → 6%ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200k → 7%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 14%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $4.0M → 11%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1.4M → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION: $524k → 15%PREVENTIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 8%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $110k → 17%DESMOINES JEWISH FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 5%STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $3.0M → 15%LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $4.0M → 11%ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $150k → 6%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 14%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $3.0M → 11%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1.3M → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $110k → 17%STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $2.4M → 15%THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $2.1M → 11%ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL: $85k → 6%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 14%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $3.0M → 11%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $290k → 7%THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $2.1M → 11%ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $63k → 6%MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 25000 AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST FROM MBI: $122k → 14%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $2.4M → 11%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $250k → 7%THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $400k → 11%ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION: $50k → 6%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $2.4M → 11%GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $188k → 7%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $2.4M → 11%MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150k → 7%BENNINGTON COLLEGE: $400k → 11%QUAHOG BAY CONSERVATORY: $250k → 7%QUAHOG BAY CONSERVATORY: $140k → 7%HARPSWELL HERITAGE LAND TRUST: $130k → 7%QUAHOG BAY CONSERVANCY: $50k → 7%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

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
CO
DC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53M · 9 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$53M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+75%

Still filing today

89%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $555k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • BC
    BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +47%
  • TL
    THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +17%
  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2.0M
  • GO
    GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • HH
    Harpswell Heritage Land Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $130k · revenue +212%
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
9
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
10
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
11
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Preventive Medicine Research Institute. 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

26 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. 26 of the 31 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $17,600,000 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATIONTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $13,640,000 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOLSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $9,325,998 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION+3 more: $1,073,528 · EducationDES MOINES JEWISH FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · OtherDES MOINES…THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · OtherTHE UNIVER…Individual grant recipient: $390,000 · OtherIndividual…GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $212,500 · Other+8 more: $407,250 · Other+8 moreNorthwestern University: $5,000,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwest…GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $3,081,365 · AnimalsPREVENTIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,000,000 · HealthFOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC: $300,000 · HealthWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,330,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $250,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $85,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation Inc: $150,000 · PhilanthropyBROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$41,639,526Other$5,259,750Recreation & Sports$5,000,000Animals$3,081,365Health$2,300,000Arts & Culture$1,690,000Philanthropy$380,000

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 budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $17,600,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $13,640,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $9,325,998 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $3,081,365 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetPREVENTIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,000,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetDES MOINES JEWISH FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,330,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $1,023,528 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $212,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAspen Jewish Center: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetQuahog Bay Conservation: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBROOME COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Baum Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Base: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 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.

Melva Bucksbaum Famil…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Melva Bucksbaum Family FoundationIL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Melva Bucksbaum Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–50%
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 Scanlan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Scanlan Family 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 31 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home