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Scott Cares Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.

Health$116kHuman Services$56kYouth Development$44kHousing & Shelter$34kFood & Nutrition$30kEducation$16kPhilanthropy$15kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$272k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARITAS$4,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
EMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION$2,500
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$2,500
RED TRUCK MINISTRY$2,500
FAMILY SERVICES OF ROANOKE VALLEY$2,500
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR$2,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC$2,500
HIGH HOPES DEVELOPMENT CENTER$2,500
RICHMOND SPCA$2,500
HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT$2,000
LIFEWISE ACADEMY$2,000
RICHMOND METROPOLITAN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,000
THE WILLOW COLLABORATIVE$2,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS: $1k → 10%HELPING MAMAS: $1k → 12%AREA CONGREGATIONS IN MINISTRY: $2k → 11%HELPING MAMAS: $500 → 9%FATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA: $1k → 9%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $2k → 13%FATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA: $1k → 9%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $1k → 13%GLENWOOD TOGETHER: $1k → 16%COMMUNITY MATTERS INSURANCE PARTNERS OF CHARLOTTE: $2k → 10%PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION: $500 → 13%SPORTABLE: $1k → 22%FAMILY SERVICES OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $3k → 20%SPORTABLE: $1k → 22%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NC: $4k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 8%C2ADOPT: $1k → 9%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $1k → 13%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 8%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NC: $1k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 8%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NC: $500 → 8%READ AND FEED: $1k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $2k → 8%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

MN
IL
NY
OR
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$213k · 50 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
79

Total granted

$213k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+6%

Still filing today

68%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • HAVEN HOUSE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • ND
    NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +44%
  • THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • HW
    HEARTS WITH HANDS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • LG
    LYNCHBURG GROWS
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • H
    HONORBRIDGEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +35%

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
North Carolina Victim Assistance Network

North carolina victim assistance network promotes the rights and needs of crime victims by educating north carolina's citizens and public policy leaders about the devastating impact that crime has on our society. serving our members as a…

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2
For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services
3
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
4
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
5
Family Promise of Wake County Inc

Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.

Housing & Shelter
6
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
7
Compass of Carolina Inc

Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.

Education
8
Bethany House of Northern Virginia Inc

Bethany house's mission is to empower women and children escaping domestic violence by providing safe, short-term housing and comprehensive, trauma-informed services.

Human Services
9
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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10
Richmond County Hospice Inc

Mission is to comfort the body and heal the heart through compassionate quality care during end-of-life experiences, so patients and families may live each day with peace, comfort and dignity. we also serve the community by providing…

Human Services
11
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
12
Hope in Northern Virginia

Provide support and services to pregnant women and their babies.services include pregnancy testing, providing ultrasounds and other support services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is Philip L & Noelle C Loving But Tomorrow Foundation. 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 backsteadySenior Housing & Care Commu…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsYouth Sports LeaguesProfessional & Industry Ass…Independent Schools & Acade…Christian Ministry Support
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/115
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,450

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

109 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. 109 of the 164 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/109
Grantees still filing
51/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEARTS WITH HANDS — $10,000 · OtherHEARTS WITH HANDSTOYSTER FEST INC — $7,000 · Other+88 more — $150,225 · Other+88 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $45,402 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCHAVEN HOUSE INC — $10,000 · HealthHAVEN HOUSE INCAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $8,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE…VIRGINIA BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,500 · HealthVIRGINIA BREAST CANCER FOUNDATI…HONORBRIDGE — $5,000 · HealthMadelyns Fund — $4,000 · Health+19 more — $28,450 · Health+19 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIE…THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE RALEIG…UNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Human ServicesUNITEDHEAL…PARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesPARK VIEW …FAMILY SERVICE OF ROANOKE VALLEY — $2,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SER…Community Matters Insurance Partners of Charlotte — $2,000 · Human ServicesSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesFATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA — $2,000 · Human ServicesAREA CONGREGATIONS IN MINISTRY — $1,500 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC — $1,500 · Human ServicesHELPING MAMAS INC — $1,500 · Human Services+9 more — $8,200 · Human Services+9 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentLYNCHBURG GROWS — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentM4K LYNCHBURG INC — $4,250 · Youth DevelopmentEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION — $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentLIFEWISE INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAVIDS TABLE INC — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $1,000 · Youth Development127 Place — $1,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCASA — $4,500 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS — $4,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterGREATER LYNCHBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF GUILFORD INC — $2,250 · Housing & ShelterRICHMOND METRO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterKNOX AREA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC — $1,500 · Housing & ShelterRUSH HOMES INC — $1,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $250 · Housing & ShelterRED TRUCK MINISTRY — $5,500 · Food & NutritionLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionRUN 5 FEED 5 — $3,000 · Food & NutritionNorth East Wake Backpack Buddies — $1,500 · Food & NutritionDILWORTH SOUP KITCHEN INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC — $7,500 · InternationalFreedom 4 24 — $2,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,000 · International
Other$167,225Health$108,352Human Services$37,700Youth Development$29,250Housing & Shelter$20,500Food & Nutrition$17,000International$11,000

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 budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $45,402 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRED TRUCK MINISTRY — $5,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYNCHBURG GROWS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHONORBRIDGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCASA — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetM4K LYNCHBURG INC — $4,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMadelyns Fund — $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCARITAS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD YOUTH FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARK VIEW COMMUNITY MISSION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUN 5 FEED 5 — $3,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $2,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSanctuary Counseling Group — $2,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTOP SOLDIER SUICIDE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom 4 24 — $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAND UP FOR WOMEN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF ROANOKE VALLEY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LYNCHBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PREGNANCY NETWORK INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKVILLE-TIMBERLAKE VOL FIRE DEPT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLGBT CENTER OF RALEIGH INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILIP L & NOELLE C LOVING BUT TOMORROW FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF GUILFORD INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Matters Insurance Partners of Charlotte — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAND SAVERS UNITED — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEWISE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND METRO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERHOOD FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEAK Adventure Ministries — $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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.

Greater Lynchburg Com…The Al Stroobants Fou…Centra Health IncTruist Foundation IncFoster FoundationThe Community Foundat…Community Foundation …Easley Char Irr Tua 5…Carmax FoundationDuke Energy FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…Triangle Community Fo…
Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Foster Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Carmax Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc

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 Cares 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Scott Cares Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Scott Cares 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 164 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.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines