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Scott Foundation Inc

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$675k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$4.5MEducation$1.6MHealth$1.0MYouth Development$768kRecreation & Sports$748kInternational$556kArts & Culture$409kHuman Services$307kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $787k
  • $250k+2 grants · $975k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY MEDICAL$675,000
HAGGAI INTERNATIONAL$300,000
POINT UNIVERSITY$200,000
NAVIGATORS$101,580
MARANNOOK$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
Individual grant recipient$95,000
LEE SCOTT ACADEMY$75,000
YOUTH FOR CHRIST$65,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$50,000
GREAT COMMISSION$27,000
WORLD VISION$25,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$25,000
SCOTT DAWSON EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION$25,000
DESIRE STREET MINISTRIES$25,000
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 (FY18–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ESPERANZA HOUSE: $25k → 15%ESPERANZA HOUSE: $15k → 15%ESPERANZA HOUSE: $10k → 15%ESPERANZA HOUSE: $10k → 15%ESPERANZA HOUSE: $8k → 15%ESPERANZA HOUSE: $8k → 15%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

WA
IL
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.4M · 38 repeat orgs$651k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
23

Total granted

$9.4M
$599k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+22%

Still filing today

39%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • LS
    LEE SCOTT ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $888k · revenue +56%
  • MM
    MERCY MEDICAL CORPORATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $847k · revenue +23%
  • MI
    MARANNOOK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $664k · revenue +333%

Funded once

  • HI
    HAGGAI INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $180k
  • HE
    HARVEST EVANGELISM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $83k · revenue +11%
  • AH
    ADULAM HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $50k

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
Harvest House Ministries

To teach the true meaning of repentance and remission of sin as stated in luke 24:47 in an easy to understand duplicable way that produces real lifelong profitable results.

Community Improvement
2
The Porch Ministries

Our ultimate mission at the porch is clear and simple: to raise up mighty sons of god who will carry the authority of the kingdom of heaven, and make jesus known in the earth. we desire to raise up men of god who will love his truth with…

Religion
3
Outside the Walls Ministry

To encourage Christians to be role models- demonstrating that sharing faith ignites everything one says and does with Gods Promise to Make Everying in Life Work for Good, to move everyone, every day closer to Jesus.

Religion
4
Tri-State Christian Academy Inc

Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…

Education
5
Wisconsin Christian Campus Ministries Inc

Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.

Religion
6
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

7
Mission House Ministry

To set people free from addiction through the power of jesus christ by providing a residential work-based ministry.

Health
8
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
9
The Mission House Inc

The mission of the mission house is to facilitate christian discipleship training with men and women of all churches, to work directly with the young men and women with life-destructive issues, to teach them christian principles, in…

Human Services
10
Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
11
Eagle House Ministries

Minister the gospel of jesus

Religion
12
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Four Corners Ministriesinc and the most unlike its peers is Bighouse Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Youth CampsChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr17%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr15%7%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr17%47%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
14%
3,157/22,742

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 66 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/29
Grantees still filing
25/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAGGAI INTERNATIONAL — $1,108,837 · OtherHAGGAI INTERNATIONALLEE SCOTT ACADEMY INC — $888,151 · OtherLEE SCOTT ACADEMY INCMERCY MEDICAL CORPORATION — $847,000 · OtherMERCY MEDICAL CORPORATIONPOINT UNIVERSITY INC — $649,375 · OtherPOINT UNIVERSITY INCYOUTH FOR CHRIST — $618,415 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRISTIndividual grant recipient — $615,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NAVIGATORS — $569,554 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORSIndividual grant recipient — $313,000 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS — $278,230 · Other+40 more — $2,101,059 · Other+40 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $355,688 · ReligionSAMARITAN…FOUR CORNERS MINISTRIESINC — $210,750 · ReligionFOUR CORN…Desire Street Ministries — $175,000 · ReligionDesire St…The Overseas Initiative — $30,000 · ReligionOUTBACK MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 · Religion+1 more — $16,875 · ReligionMARANNOOK INC — $664,000 · Recreation & SportsSTORYBOOK FARM INC — $86,131 · Recreation & SportsYOUNG LIFE — $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $80,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORLD VISION INC — $156,298 · InternationalTHIRD LENS CORPORATION — $8,500 · InternationalESPERANZA HOUSE INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesBIGHOUSE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE WAY 2 SERVE INC F/K/A THE WAY MINISTRIES INC — $36,000 · Human ServicesHARVEST EVANGELISM INC — $83,000 · Health
Other$7,988,621Religion$818,313Recreation & Sports$750,131Youth Development$220,000International$164,798Human Services$161,000Health$83,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEE SCOTT ACADEMY INC — $888,151 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CORPORATION — $847,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetMARANNOOK INC — $664,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetPOINT UNIVERSITY INC — $649,375 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $355,688 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR CORNERS MINISTRIESINC — $210,750 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetDesire Street Ministries — $175,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $156,298 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetScott Dawson Evangelistic Association — $137,539 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $135,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYBOOK FARM INC — $86,131 over 2y, 16% of budgetHARVEST EVANGELISM INC — $83,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA HOUSE INC — $75,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOBILE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIGHOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WAY 2 SERVE INC F/K/A THE WAY MINISTRIES INC — $36,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetThe Overseas Initiative — $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetHADDIES HOME INC — $20,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTHE OAKS COLLABORATIVE — $16,875 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSecond Wind Programs Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD LENS CORPORATION — $8,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONS OF COACHES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GATHERING — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 LEE SCOTT ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CORPORATION
  • Who funds MARANNOOK INC
  • Who funds POINT UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds FOUR CORNERS MINISTRIESINC
  • Who funds Desire Street Ministries
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC
  • Who funds Scott Dawson Evangelistic Association
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds STORYBOOK FARM INC
  • Who funds HARVEST EVANGELISM INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds ESPERANZA HOUSE INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE
  • Who funds BIGHOUSE INC
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF EAST ALABAMA INC
  • Who funds THE WAY 2 SERVE INC F/K/A THE WAY MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds The Overseas Initiative
  • Who funds OUTBACK MINISTRIES INC

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.

Davison Bruce FoundationTN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davison Bruce Foundation · Travis L Rabren Foundation Inc · Samford-Cannon Foundation · D Gaines Lanier Family Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · E L Spencer Jr Foundation Inc · The Lanier Family Foundation · Servant Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Foundation Inc 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Our House Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Scott Foundation Inc 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 66 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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