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Scott Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$90kEducation$73kRecreation & Sports$53kYouth Development$36kCommunity Improvement$35kHuman Services$27kHealth$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$95k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE 805$16,000
CASA PACIFICA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN$9,500
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF CAMARILLO$3,000
CAMARILLO FAMILY YMCA$3,000
CAMARILLO BREAKFAST ROTARY FOUNDATI$2,500
ACA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$1,160
WALSH FAMILY-CAVC SCHOLARSHIP FOUND$1,000
VENTURA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
HOOAH INC$1,000
SEEAG$516
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 (FY19–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOOAH INC: $1k → 8%HOOAH INC: $1k → 8%CASA PACIFICA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%CASA PACIFICA CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 10%STEP UP VENTURA: $500 → 10%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

IL
OR
PA
CA
VA
AZ
GA
FL

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$280k · 22 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$280k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+43%

Still filing today

41%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalAnimalsRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +226%
  • K
    kidSTREAM
    6× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue ×20
  • PV
    PLEASANT VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CB
    CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMENgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +51%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • CF
    CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -8%

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
Ventura County Sheriff S&R Volunteer Search & Rescue Inc
2
Artsventura

ArtsVentura is a non-profit public benefit corporation. ArtsVentura promotes the arts within the city of Ventura and surrounding area, fosters collaboration between artists and arts groups, and provides technical assistance and resource…

Arts & Culture
3
The California State Guard Foundation

Our Mission is Simple: to Protect and Support Those Who Protect and Support Us.

4
Camarillo Rotary Foundation Inc

Charitable auxillary to the camarillo rotary club

Human Services
5
Museum of Ventura County

The museum of ventura county, through its collections, exhibits, educational programs and publications, celebrates the history, art, and culture of ventura county and the channel islands.

Arts & Culture
6
California Oil Museum Foundation

The purpose of the california oil museum foundation is to support the development and expansion of the california oil museum by financing it through solicitations to public and private institutions and individuals. the board of directors…

Arts & Culture
7
Oxnard Homeless Prevntion
Human Services
8
Valley Veterinary Clinic a Non Profit Corporation

The goal of the Valley Veterinary Clinic Nonprofit is to provide veterinary treatment to pets of those in need of financial assistance, and animals brought in by Good Samaritans and rescue groups.

Animals
9
Ventura County Community Foundation

The mission of the ventura county community foundation (vccf) is connecting people, resources, and solutions to create lasting impact in our shared world.

Philanthropy
10
Ventura Sheriff K-9 Foundation

Support and enhance the services provided by the ventura county sherriff's canine unit.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Housing Land Trust Ventura County

Land Trust

Housing & Shelter
12
Save Cuesta Inlet Inc
Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Ventura County and the most unlike its peers is Soteria Alliance Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

23 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE 805 — $50,500 · OtherTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE 805ROTARY CLUB OF CAMARILLO FOUNDATION — $37,561 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF CAMARILLO FOUNDATIONCAMARILLO BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $25,000 · OtherCAMARILLO BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBVENTURA COUNTY MUSEUM — $13,500 · OtherVENTURA COUNTY MUSEUMPLEASANT VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $12,835 · OtherPLEASANT VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETYACA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $11,475 · OtherCAMARILLO FAMILY YMCA — $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherSEEAG — $8,016 · Other+29 more — $51,300 · Other+29 morekidSTREAM — $37,400 · Arts & CulturekidSTREAMCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCLARE BOOTHE LUCE C…Camarillo Ranch Foundation — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCamarillo Ranch Fou…+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA S…Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families — $10,500 · Human ServicesHOOAH INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP VENTURA — $500 · Human ServicesCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $10,000 · HealthDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES — $6,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY — $900 · AnimalsFOOD SHARE INC — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$231,187Arts & Culture$62,900Education$40,000Human Services$13,000Health$10,000Animals$7,400Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetFOOD SHARE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamarillo Ranch Foundation — $5,000 over 5y, 1.5% 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 budgetREEL GUPPY OUTDOORS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAMARILLO ARTS COUNCIL — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEXHALTT CO INC — $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSIMI VALLEY POLICE FOUNDATION — $300 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds kidSTREAM
  • Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN
  • Who funds PLEASANT VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families
  • Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
  • Who funds DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES
  • Who funds FOOD SHARE INC
  • Who funds Camarillo Ranch Foundation
  • Who funds WE WILL NEVER FORGET FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF VENTURA COUNTY
  • Who funds HOOAH INC
  • Who funds SOTERIA ALLIANCE CORPORATION
  • Who funds Soroptimist International of Camarillo
  • Who funds OXNARD COMMUNITY K9 FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY
  • Who funds VENTURA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION

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.

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

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 Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 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.

    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 50 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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