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Scotford Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $174k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RELIANT MISSION INC | $29,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,200 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $25,000 |
| YSU FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN POLICY ROUNDTABLE | $18,000 |
| TALK IS CHEAP INC | $17,000 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| THE SPENCE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| TOWN ONE RANGE ONE | $10,000 |
| CRU | $6,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $5,000 |
| CELEBRATE POLAND | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $5,000 |
| POLAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTERS | $5,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
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
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TSTHE SPENCE SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $77k · revenue +28%
- TITALK IS CHEAP INC7× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +26%
- WUWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
- GSGOLDEN STRING INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15%
- PLPOLAND LOCAL SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
Portsmouth christian academy exists to honor god joyfully by inspiring students to maximize their god-given potential.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
To provide academically able students with a challenging educational experience designed to help them know, love and practice that which is true, good and excellent, and to prepare them to live purposefully and intelligently in the service…
The mission of the academy is to study and teach the truths of the natural and spiritual worlds in the light of the old testament, the new testament, and the writings of emanuel swedenborg. this is done at the academy of the new church…
The school's mission is: to dedicate ourselves to christ in the pursuit of academic excellence, artistic expression, and athletic distinction while growing in knowledge and wisdom through god's abundant grace.
See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.
Provide an education to children in lower and middle school using classical christian methodology.
The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.
Christian college preparing students for principled leadership around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collegiate School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Poland Boys Basketball Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
19 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE AMERICAN POLICY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TALK IS CHEAP INC ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF MAHONING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds L'ABRI FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STRING INC ↗
- Who funds POLAND BOYS BASKETBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR RENEWAL INC ↗
- Who funds DANCING DREAMS ↗
- Who funds SONSET SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Indo Jax Surf Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds POLAND TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Premier Bank Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Scotford Foundation 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.
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.
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