· Private foundation
Scott Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Anti-Defamation League | $150,000 |
| University of Illinois | $100,000 |
| University of Notre Dame | $25,000 |
| Spotivity Gateway Foundation | $25,000 |
| Spotivity Gateway Foundation | $20,000 |
| Spotivity Gateway Foundation | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of Scott Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 68%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against -26% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Illinois Foundation4× · 2017–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +127%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE5× · 2017–2024 · $775k · revenue +78%
- LULINK Unlimited Scholars3× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- CJCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $200k
- OSOLD ST PATRICKS CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $50k
- HFHOLLYROD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -26%
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 GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
To promote foster and support both sweep rowing and sculling to youth and adults in the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area and to educate coach and train the general public in skills relating to rowing and in-water safety.
The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois at urbana-champaign (the university) and all its alumni; to inspire lifelong loyalty and pride among…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Dominican University provides instruction to students seeking an Associates, Undergraduate or Graduate degree (some doctorate and certificates), and administers all of its programs without discrimination of race, color, gender, religion,…
The illinois chapter of alpha delta phi strives to enhance its brothers and enrich outward society, especially that of the university of illinois at urbana-champaign, and of the cities of champaign and urbana and county of champaign.…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars ↗
- Who funds BACK 2 SCHOOL AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Chicago Training Center ↗
- Who funds ZEUS ONCOLOGY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI Chicago ↗
- Who funds HOLLYROD FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Scott Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scott Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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