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Scott and Jessica McClintock 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.

$392k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Animals$1.3MEnvironment$1.2MScience & Tech$23kMembership Benefit$2k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $305k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$13,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC$53,400
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$39,000
ECO ERA$38,200
AKASHINGA INC$36,600
NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC$30,000
OCEANA INC$24,000
PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC$24,000
THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE$24,000
NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION INC$24,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$18,000
OCEANSWIDE INC$13,000
TROUT UNLIMITED INC$12,000
TROUT UNLIMITED INC$12,000
OCEANSWIDE INC$10,000
AMERICAN WILD HORSE FOUNDATION$7,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AKASHINGA INC: $37k → 22%ECO ERA: $38k → 8%NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION INC: $39k → 11%SHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $72k → 14%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $60k → 14%INTERNATIONAL ANTI-POACHING FOUNDATION INC: $42k → 7%PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $24k → 19%NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $30k → 12%INTERNATIONAL ANTI-POACHING FOUNDATION INC: $32k → 22%ECO ERA: $21k → 8%NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION INC: $34k → 11%SHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $91k → 14%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $65k → 14%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $56k → 14%TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $23k → 7%PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $19k → 19%NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $22k → 12%NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION INC: $29k → 11%SHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $28k → 14%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $60k → 14%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $55k → 14%NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION INC: $27k → 11%SHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $26k → 14%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $42k → 14%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $34k → 14%NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION INC: $24k → 11%SHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $39k → 14%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $29k → 14%NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL FOUNDATION INC: $19k → 11%SHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC: $53k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30k → 14%THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $24k → 14%SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC: $45k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25k → 14%SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC: $40k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $19k → 14%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $19k → 14%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $18k → 14%SHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%SAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC: $32k → 17%OCEANA INC: $36k → 14%OCEANA INC: $32k → 14%OCEANA INC: $27k → 14%OCEANA INC: $24k → 14%OCEANA INC: $24k → 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

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NV
PA
CA
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VA
TN
DC
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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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 20 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
4

Total granted

$2.5M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+49%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $448k · revenue +47%
  • TE
    THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $258k · revenue +59%
  • NM
    National Marine Mammal Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue +49%
  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $19k
  • ST
    SAVE THE CHIMPS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -60%

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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
3
Sos Rhino
Animals
4
Endangered Species International

Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.

Animals
5
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
6
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
7
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
8
The Nature Conservancy

The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.

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9
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
10
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
11
International Primate Protection League

Protecting the world's remaining primates by monitoring and exposing illegal trade, supporting a worldwide network of overseas sanctuaries and ngo's, publicising the plight of abused primates, and operating a sanctuary for resued gibbons.

Animals
12
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%18%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%47%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,540

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

22 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. 22 of the 26 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATION — $462,500 · AnimalsSHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATIONSAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC — $303,700 · AnimalsSAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INCTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $258,200 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEENational Marine Mammal Foundation Inc — $195,100 · AnimalsNational Marine Mammal Foundation IncAKASHINGA INC — $177,500 · AnimalsAKASHINGA INCPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $58,500 · Animals+7 more — $97,700 · Animals+7 moreWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $448,400 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $152,172 · EnvironmentNatural Resources Council of Maine IncOCEANA INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCECO ERA — $105,800 · EnvironmentECO ERANATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $38,200 · Environment+3 more — $55,500 · Environment+3 moreTROUT UNLIMITED — $46,000 · OtherCIRCLE OF SACRED NATURE — $24,800 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $18,600 · OtherAMERICAN WILD HORSE FOUNDATION — $7,000 · OtherFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters — $17,100 · Arts & Culture
Animals$1,553,200Environment$950,072Other$96,400Arts & Culture$17,100

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 budgetSHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATION — $462,500 over 5y, 61% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $448,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE RHINO INTERNATIONAL INC — $303,700 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE — $258,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNational Marine Mammal Foundation Inc — $195,100 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAKASHINGA INC — $177,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $152,172 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetOCEANA INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetECO ERA — $105,800 over 4y, 81% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $58,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Lion Foundation — $48,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $38,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $34,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $30,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANSWIDE INC — $23,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters — $17,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPAWSITIVE BEGINNINGS — $6,800 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC — $5,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA WATCH — $2,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDedication and Everlasting Love to Animals — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAVEN CAN WAIT ANIMAL SOCIETY — $500 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY9.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Scott and Jessica McClintock 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report 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

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.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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