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Scp Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$655k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$318kHealth$205kEducation$199kHuman Services$170kArts & Culture$111kCommunity Improvement$63kEnvironment$56kCivil Rights$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $255k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $385k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRANSHEALTH$75,000
MINDFUL BIRTHNG AND PARENTING FOUNDATION$60,000
HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON$50,000
HRDC$50,000
CISA$50,000
GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON$50,000
TONI'S KITCHEN$50,000
TREEHOUSE$35,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$25,000
MGB COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL$25,000
GREEN CITY MARKET LLC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
NAMI METRO SUBURBAN$25,000
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$25,000
SHARE FOOD SHARE LOVE FOOD PANTRY$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $25k → 8%TRANSHEALTH: $75k → 12%NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON: $25k → 14%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%TAPESTRY: $10k → 17%HRDC: $50k → 10%NATURAL LANDS: $15k → 10%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $23k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 22%MINDFUL BIRTHNG AND PARENTING FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%RIVERSIDE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 17%TREEHOUSE: $35k → 9%MORRIS MUSEUM: $10k → 4%FOODSHED ALLIANCE: $10k → 7%TONI'S KITCHEN: $50k → 16%SOUTHERN DOMINION HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $20k → 22%SNOW FARM: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE: $35k → 14%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%HRDC: $13k → 10%NATURAL LANDS: $10k → 10%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $12k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 22%MINDFUL BIRTHNG AND PARENTING FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%FRIENDS OF RADIO WORKSHOP: $25k → 17%TREEHOUSE: $10k → 9%GREEN CITY MARKET LLC: $25k → 14%MORRIS MUSEUM: $10k → 4%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%TONI'S KITCHEN: $25k → 16%GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON: $50k → 12%CHILDREN'S RADIO FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%GREEN CITY MARKET LLC: $20k → 14%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%TONI'S KITCHEN ST LUKE'S CHURCH: $10k → 16%SNOW FARM: $10k → 12%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON: $10k → 12%NAMI METRO SUBURBAN: $25k → 14%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON: $50k → 12%NAMI METRO SUBURBAN: $15k → 14%MGB COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL: $25k → 12%NAMI METRO SUBURBAN: $10k → 14%ST JOHN'S: $15k → 12%SHARE FOOD SHARE LOVE FOOD PANTRY: $15k → 14%ST JOHN'S: $10k → 12%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$814k · 19 repeat orgs$473k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
16

Total granted

$814k
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+7%

Still filing today

68%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionArts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GF
    GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +19%
  • CG
    CHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • NM
    NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CI
    COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations; the most unlike its peers is Tapestry Inc. 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINDFUL BIRTHNG AND PARENTING FOUNDATION: $120,000 · OtherMINDFUL BIRTHNG AND PARENTING FOUNDATIONTONI'S KITCHEN: $75,000 · OtherTONI'S KITCHENHRDC: $62,500 · OtherHRDCCISA: $50,000 · OtherCISAHISTORIC NORTHAMPTON INC: $50,000 · OtherHISTORIC NORTHAMPTON INCCarnegie Mellon University: $40,648 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYST JOHN'S: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF RADIO WORKSHOP: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherMGB COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL: $25,000 · Other+13 more: $136,755 · Other+13 moreGROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionGROW FOOD NORTHAM…CHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCHICAGO'S GREEN C…COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY INVOLVE…GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $35,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO F…SHARE FOOD SHARE LOVE FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD SHARE …TRANSHEALTH INC: $75,000 · HealthTRANSHEALTH…NAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC: $50,000 · HealthNAMI METRO-…CANCER CONNECTION INC: $10,000 · HealthCANCER CONN…RIDER UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationRIDER UNI…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $30,000 · EducationTemple Un…Natural Lands Trust Inc: $30,725 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $25,000 · EnvironmentTREEHOUSE: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO WORKSHOP US INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureREFUGEEONE: $6,000 · Religion
Other$699,903Food & Nutrition$200,000Health$135,000Education$110,000Environment$55,725Youth Development$45,000Arts & Culture$35,000Religion$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM: $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNAMI METRO-SUBURBAN INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORIC NORTHAMPTON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $40,648 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $30,725 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN DOMINION HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHARE FOOD SHARE LOVE FOOD PANTRY: $20,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetRADIO WORKSHOP US INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCANCER CONNECTION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Florence Savings Char…Easthampton Savings B…The Beveridge Family …Community Foundation …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Florence Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scp Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scp Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Grow Food Northampton Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Worcester Historical Museum: 5% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Transhealth Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Historic Northampton Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Scp Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Scp 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home