· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| African Wildlife Foundation | $200,000 |
| Numbers USA | $100,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $100,000 |
| Northwestern Memorial Foundation | $50,000 |
| American Enterprise Institute | $50,000 |
| Chicago Botanic Garden | $35,000 |
| Friends of the Everglades | $30,000 |
| Navy Seal Foundation | $25,000 |
| Reaumond Foundation | $25,000 |
| Rush University Medical Center | $20,000 |
| Shirley Ryan Ability Lab | $20,000 |
| Bob Woodruff Foundation | $10,000 |
| Minnesota Recovery Connection | $10,000 |
| Shipley School | $10,000 |
| Elawa Farm Foundation | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 11 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AWAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +54%
- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicago6× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +31%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $66k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- CSCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATERone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -11%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +14%- CCHRYSALISone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
142 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 142 of the 202 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BIG HEART RANCH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Recovery Connection ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT A REAUMOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN KIDS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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.
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
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.
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.