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Scarlett Family Foundation at a glance

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Scarlett Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
258
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$444k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0174% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$32MHuman Services$3.1MYouth Development$2.6MArts & Culture$708kPhilanthropy$628kCommunity Improvement$472kPublic Benefit$150kEmployment$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 258 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k118 grants · $749k
  • $10k–50k102 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+10 grants · $3.2M
$13,166
Median grant
8
States reached
$249M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY$443,700
NASHVILLE CLASSICAL$395,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA NASHVILLE-CHATTANOOGA$375,000
KIPP NASHVILLE$350,000
PURPOSE PREPARATORY ACADEMY$344,020
TENNESSEE EDUCATORS OF COLOR ALLIANCE$285,000
CONEXION AMERICA$280,000
OASIS CENTER INC$252,436
INSTRUCTION PARTNERS$250,000
STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION (SCORE)$250,000
AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL$230,000
MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER$220,000
NASHVILLE TEACHER RESIDENCY$200,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$186,350
DIVERSE LEARNERS COOPERATIVE$175,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CONEXION AMERICA: $280k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $200k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $200k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $200k → 14%CONEXION AMERICA: $200k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $150k → 14%CONEXION AMERICA: $80k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $75k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $75k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $75k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $75k → 14%URBAN LEAGUE OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $7k → 14%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

ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CA
MO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39M · 440 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

440 repeat relationships: 131 still active in FY2025, 309 since wound down; 127 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

440
214

Total granted

$39M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-6%

Still filing today

9%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • LU
    LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +41%
  • KN
    KIPP NASHVILLE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +128%
  • LP
    LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • NV
    NEW VENTURE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • DL
    DIVERSE LEARNERS COOPERATIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $175k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
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
Intrepid College Preparatory School

Intrepid college prep is committed to ensuring our scholars, educators, and families have the opportunity to unlock an unlimited future. by providing rigorous academic instruction and creating powerful relationships amongst our community's…

Education
2
Episcopal School of Nashville

The episcopal school of nashville, a diverse urban independent school, is dedicated to nurturing the joy of learning and the spirit of discovery in each of its students.

Education
3
Kings Academy Nashville

King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.

Education
4
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
5
Tennessee Educational Cooperative

Tennessee educational cooperative's mission is to help all children reach their potential by partnering with parents, schools and communities.

Education
6
Opportunity Nashville

Opportunity nashville is an advocacy organization focused on improving educational equity in nashville. our mission is to ensure that every child in nashville has access to a high-quality public education.

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7
Metropolitan Nashville Education Association Inc

To promote excellence in the metropolitan nashville public school system, to seek significant support for public education from the community, to pursue economic and professional security for all educators, to maintain a strong united…

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8
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
9
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce

The nashville area chamber of commerce facilitates community leadership to create economic prosperity.

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10
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
11
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
12
Nashville Freedom School Partnership

The Nashville Freedom School Partnership(C) uses literacy to instill cultural pride, self-assurance, and active citizenship with a primary focus on children of color.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Public Education Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Ayers Foundation Trust. 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

60 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. 60 of the 783 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
35/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIPP NASHVILLE: $1,650,000 · EducationKIPP NASHVILLELEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $1,540,000 · EducationLEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCINSTRUCTION PARTNERS: $1,250,000 · EducationINSTRUCTION PARTNERSVALOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $1,100,000 · EducationVALOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMIESNashville Teacher Residency: $1,050,000 · EducationNashville Teacher ResidencyTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION: $1,000,000 · EducationTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATI…NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $845,000 · EducationSTEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $780,000 · EducationPENCIL FOUNDATION: $669,734 · EducationSTRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY: $550,000 · Education+26 more: $5,861,550 · Education+26 moreLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $2,149,700 · OtherLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYPURPOSE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $1,008,020 · OtherPURPOSE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCTEACH FOR AMERICA NASHVILLE: $900,000 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA NASHVILLESTATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION (SCORE): $525,000 · Other+153 more: $9,813,644 · Other+153 moreCONEXION AMERICAS: $1,610,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $1,465,000 · ReligionOASIS CENTER INC: $1,354,244 · Community ImprovementBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN: $461,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $372,700 · Youth DevelopmentNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $468,000 · Arts & CultureNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$16,296,284Other$14,396,364Human Services$1,610,000Religion$1,465,000Community Improvement$1,354,244Youth Development$833,700Arts & Culture$518,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $2,149,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP NASHVILLE: $1,650,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCONEXION AMERICAS: $1,610,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetLEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $1,540,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $1,465,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $1,354,244 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetINSTRUCTION PARTNERS: $1,250,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetVALOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $1,100,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNashville Teacher Residency: $1,050,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetPURPOSE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $1,008,020 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION: $1,000,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetNASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $845,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSTEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $780,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION: $669,734 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetSTRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY: $550,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $498,650 over 5y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE: $495,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetNASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $468,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN: $461,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $395,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $372,700 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION: $365,100 over 5y, 14% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE COLLEGE ACCESS AND SUCCESS NETWORK: $342,400 over 3y, 22% of budgetTENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER: $325,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetTENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION: $320,000 over 4y, 71% of budgetDIVERSE LEARNERS COOPERATIVE: $305,000 over 4y, 18% of budget50CAN INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $300,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION: $287,500 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetTennessee Educators of Color Alliance N: $285,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetAVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $230,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNashville Charter Collaborative: $225,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetHOMEWORK HOTLINE INC: $175,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC: $173,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROCKETSHIP EDUCATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION POLICY AND RESEARCH: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNASHVILLE SOFTWARE SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNASHVILLE PROPEL PARENT INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN: $100,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SYCAMORE INSTITUTE INC: $72,400 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetLAWRENCE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetGENTRYS EDUCATION CENTER AT THE STORE FRONT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KIPP NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds CONEXION AMERICAS ↗
  • Who funds LEAD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OASIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTRUCTION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds VALOR COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
  • Who funds Nashville Teacher Residency ↗
  • Who funds PURPOSE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds STEM PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STRIVE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds THE NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE COLLEGE ACCESS AND SUCCESS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEANS FOR QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds DIVERSE LEARNERS COOPERATIVE ↗
  • Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
  • Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL CHANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance N ↗
  • Who funds AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗

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.

Joe C Davis FoundationMemorial Foundation I…The Community Foundat…The Frist FoundationDollar General Litera…United Way of Middle …Hca Healthcare Founda…City FundTennessee State Colla…Nashville Predators F…Charter Fund Inc D/B/…The Dan and Margaret …
Joe C Davis FoundationTN59.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joe C Davis Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · City Fund · Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education · Nashville Predators Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund 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 Scarlett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scarlett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Scarlett Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Scarlett 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 783 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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