Florida · 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.
- $840k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2024
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 81
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Scott Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 54 | $840k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $184k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $618k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $214k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $555k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $382k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $462k | 48% |
| FY2017 | 81 | $495k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| African Wildlife Foundation Inc | $1,115,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of the Everglades Inc | $66,200 | 3 | 2% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $51,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Heart Ranch | $51,350 | 4 | 11% |
| Chicago Shakespeare Theater | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Minnesota Recovery Connection | $47,400 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 143 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), 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.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Gorter Family Foundation · CMB Foundation · Madigan Family Foundation · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · The James E & Constance L Bell Foundation · Legatus Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Seven C Foundation · Donald Grant & Ann Martin Calder Foundat · St Clair Charitable Trust · Nelson Mead Fund
How this is measured
About Scott Family Foundation
- How much does Scott Family Foundation give?
- Scott Family Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $840,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 81 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Scott Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (32%), Health (29%), Education (9%).
- Who are Scott Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: African Wildlife Foundation Inc ($1.1M), Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ($150k), Friends of the Everglades Inc ($66k).
- Does Scott Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Scott Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Scott Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gorter Family Foundation, CMB Foundation, Madigan Family Foundation.
- Where is Scott Family Foundation based?
- Scott Family Foundation is based in FL.
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