Kansas · Community foundation
Scott Community Foundation
Preserve local wealth so the communities in and around Scott County, Kansas will forever remain attractive places to live, work and raise a family.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $690k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $172,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Scott Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $690k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $672k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $441k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $396k | 76% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $455k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $434k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $528k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $322k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 466 Scott County | $1,300,610 | 9 | n/a |
| City of Scott City | $255,610 | 3 | n/a |
| United Methodist Church | $207,626 | 6 | n/a |
| Scott County | $159,626 | 5 | n/a |
| Scott County Hospital Inc | $148,817 | 4 | n/a |
| Scott Community Thrift Store-Breadbasket | $147,561 | 5 | n/a |
| First Christian Church | $101,457 | 8 | n/a |
| Camp Christy Corporation | $99,571 | 5 | n/a |
| Stepping Up Inc | $97,280 | 4 | 24% |
| Spencer Flight & Education Center I | $77,500 | 5 | 56% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 466 Scott County | $1,300,610 | 9 | n/a |
| City of Scott City | $255,610 | 3 | n/a |
| United Methodist Church | $207,626 | 6 | n/a |
| Scott County | $159,626 | 5 | n/a |
| Scott County Hospital Inc | $148,817 | 4 | n/a |
| Scott Community Thrift Store-Breadbasket | $147,561 | 5 | n/a |
| First Christian Church | $101,457 | 8 | n/a |
| Camp Christy Corporation | $99,571 | 5 | n/a |
| Stepping Up Inc | $97,280 | 4 | 24% |
| Spencer Flight & Education Center I | $77,500 | 5 | 56% |
| Lake Scott State Park Friends Group | $75,618 | 4 | n/a |
| Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center | $68,370 | 5 | 1% |
| Scott County Vips Inc | $61,667 | 5 | n/a |
| Methodist Camp Lakeside | $51,250 | 5 | n/a |
| Scott County Historical Society Inc | $50,078 | 5 | 14% |
| Scott County Library | $45,594 | 5 | n/a |
| Scott City Area Chamber of Commerce | $37,715 | 1 | 27% |
| Scott Community Golf Course Inc | $33,800 | 3 | 8% |
| Scott County Free Fair | $29,023 | 1 | n/a |
| Scott County Arts Council Inc | $28,800 | 4 | 22% |
| Scott City Christian School | $26,540 | 2 | n/a |
| Scott Recreation Commission | $25,326 | 3 | n/a |
| The Russell Child Development Center Inc | $17,589 | 3 | 0% |
| Trinity Academy Incorporated | $14,940 | 2 | 0% |
| New Hope Childrens Farm Tr Dated November 1 2008 | $12,575 | 2 | n/a |
| Scott City Stars | $11,387 | 1 | n/a |
| JF Beaver Advertising | $11,127 | 1 | n/a |
| Camp Fontanelle | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holy Cross Lutheran | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Scott Hospital Foundation | $9,575 | 1 | n/a |
| Scott County Rest Home Inc | $9,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Scott County Indoor Arena & Activities Center | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Scott County EMS | $6,025 | 1 | n/a |
| House of Hope Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Scott County Development Committee Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Headquarters Kansas Inc | $5,275 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($948k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Scott Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Scott Community Foundation
- How much does Scott Community Foundation give?
- Scott Community Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $689,501, out of $1,501,352 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Scott Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Religion (16%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Scott Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: USD 466 Scott County ($1.3M), City of Scott City ($256k), United Methodist Church ($208k).
- Does Scott Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Scott Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Western Kansas Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Scott Community Foundation based?
- Scott Community Foundation is based in KS.
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