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Scorto 1 Nfp

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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$180kArts & Culture$70kFood & Nutrition$24kInternational$19kEnvironment$17kEducation$8kHealth$6kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
10
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATION HOUSE$10,000
CREATE WISCONSIN$1,500
FEEDING AMERICA$1,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$1,000
THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY$1,000
PING$1,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$600
AMERICAN WRITERS' MUSEUM$500
Individual grant recipient$500
AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY$500
Individual grant recipient$500
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION$500
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$500
MISSION GARDEN$500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $149k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SANTA'S VOLUNTEERS: $500 → 14%NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR: $500 → 15%ASSOCIATION HOUSE: $20k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $28k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $21k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE: $5k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE: $5k → 14%CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$273k · 29 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
40

Total granted

$273k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+24%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther

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

  • AH
    ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +84%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +140%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • AA
    AMERICAN ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • OXFAM-AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

4
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
7
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
8
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

9
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
10
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
11
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
12
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ping Providing Instruments for the Next Generation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceLand Conservation Organizat…Animal Rescue and AdoptionLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Veteran Support ServicesYouth Sports Booster Organi…Government Accountability R…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%9%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr22%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr15%1%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr22%71%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,323

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

32 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO — $143,801 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO+5 more — $7,250 · Human ServicesOPERAMATIC — $35,000 · OtherOPERAMATICIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION — $8,000 · OtherAMERICAN ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATIONGREENPEACE INC — $5,000 · OtherOXFAM - PALU — $5,000 · OtherPING — $4,000 · Other+53 more — $51,950 · Other+53 moreGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $19,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $4,000 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $8,500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $5,000 · InternationalTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY — $7,500 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $100 · EducationTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM — $7,000 · Arts & CultureCREATE WISCONSIN INC — $3,500 · Arts & CulturePING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation — $1,500 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $100 · Arts & CultureBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$151,051Other$118,950Food & Nutrition$23,000International$13,500Education$12,600Arts & Culture$12,600Philanthropy$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO — $143,801 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY — $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM — $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCREATE WISCONSIN INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen Unite Chicago — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEEONE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighbor by Neighbor — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORAL BAY COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
  • Who funds BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds CREATE WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB
  • Who funds American Bird Conservancy
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
  • Who funds PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation
  • Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN INC
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC
  • Who funds Women Unite Chicago
  • Who funds REFUGEEONE

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Scorto 1 Nfp 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Scorto 1 Nfp?

Find your warmest path to Scorto 1 Nfp 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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