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Scott Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$16,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$95k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Scott Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$39k30%
FY202319$75k42%
FY202214$61k29%
FY202112$30k33%
FY202012$33k42%
FY201911$28k36%
FY201815$56k40%
FY201716$48kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$90kEducation$73kRecreation & Sports$53kYouth Development$36kCommunity Improvement$35kHuman Services$27kHealth$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OR
PA
CA
VA
AZ
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Scott Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornia State University Channel Islands Foundation: $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetkidSTREAM: $37,400 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetPleasant Valley Historical Society: $12,835 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Foundation of Santa Barbara: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamarillo Ranch Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetFood Share Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Will Never Forget Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Ventura County: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHooah Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSoteria Alliance Corporation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOxnard Community K9 Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHumane Society of Ventura County: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOutreach Alliance of Ventura County: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCamarillo Arts Council: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetReel Guppy Outdoors Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetExhaltt Co Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSimi Valley Police Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Ventura County Community FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ventura County Community Foundation · Told Foundation · Meadowlark Service League · Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Scott Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Scott Family 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.

About Scott Family Foundation

How much does Scott Family Foundation give?
Scott Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $38,676 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Scott Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Education (20%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
Who are Scott Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: California State University Channel Islands Foundation ($40k), kidSTREAM ($37k), Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women ($20k).
Does Scott Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Scott Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Scott Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ventura County Community Foundation, Told Foundation, Meadowlark Service League.
Where is Scott Family Foundation based?
Scott Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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