· Private foundation
Scotford Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE SPENCE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| TOWN ONE RANGE ONE | $10,000 |
| CRU | $6,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $5,000 |
| HOPE FOR RENEWAL | $5,000 |
| POLAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTERS | $5,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
- RCREVIVE COLLEGE CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Premier Bank Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Scotford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scotford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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