How much did Scratch Foundation grant in FY2024?

Scratch Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $939,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Scratch Foundation based?

Scratch Foundation is based in NY.

Scratch Foundation

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

Scratch Foundation

See Schedule OThe Scratch Foundation (the Foundation) is a nonprofit organization that develops and supports the Scratch creative coding website and online community.

$939k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$210k

Largest

01What you fund

0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$3.4MYouth Development$226kArts & Culture$65kHuman Services$45kEmployment$35kInternational$10kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$363k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

education

2019

education

2020

dedicated

2021

corporate

2022

engagementfacilitation freefree workshopsworkshops localizationlocalization materialsmaterials increaseincrease cultural

2023

engagementfacilitation freefree workshopsworkshops localizationlocalization materialsmaterials increaseincrease cultural

2024

engagementfacilitation freefree workshopsworkshops localizationlocalization materialsmaterials increaseincrease cultural

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $28k
$10k–50k15 grants · $262k
$50k–250k2 grants · $266k

$11,500

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

Trustees of Boston College (Devtech Research Group)$210,000
Harvard University$56,000
STEAM For Vietnam Foundation$40,000
People For Public Leadership$30,000
Hampton University$30,000
The Clubhouse Network$25,000
STEM NOLA$20,000
Somerset Community Action Program$15,000
Televisa Foundation Inc$15,000
Mississippi State University$15,000
Ausometech Industries LLC$11,500
Mirror of Hope Foundation DBA Inspireher STEM$10,000
NEFL Regional STEM2 Hub Inc$10,000
CodeArt$10,000
University System of Maryland$10,000

02The need

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 (FY23–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.5M · 12 repeat orgs$661k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.5M

$503k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+69%

Still filing today

67%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalEmploymentOther

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

MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs
4× · 2017–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +12%
Harvard University
6× · 2017–2024 · $856k · revenue +5%
Trustees of Boston College (Devtech Research Group)
3× · 2022–2024 · $550k · revenue +41%

Funded once

DC
Dev Colorgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +354%
KT
Kreativa Technologies LLCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +399%
UO
University of California San Diego
one grant, 2023 · $15k

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.

Girls in Stem

Human Services

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Welfare Benefit Plans Trust

To provide health and life insurance benefits to covered eligible retirees of massachusetts institute of technology and their dependents, as well as individuals receiving long-term disability benefits for at least three years.

Membership Benefit

New York Institute of Technology

We are committed to educating the next generation of leaders and inspiring innovation. (see sch o)

Education

New England Institute of Technology

The mission of new england institute of technology (neit) is described in schedule o*the mission of new england institute of technology (neit) is to provide specialized undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs which…

Education

National Science and Technology

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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The School for Global Thinkers

Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…

Education

Bit Coding Academy

Education

The Tech Interactive

To inspire the innovator in everyone.

Arts & Culture

P31Girls Incorporated

youth educational and enrichment programs for girls

Youth Development

Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education

Neurodiversity Education Research

The mission of the neurodiversity education research center is to equip and prepare students for an emerging 21st century global scientific workforce. we will accomplish our mission through research- based teaching and learning strategies,…

Education

New York Academy of Sciences

To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hampton University. 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.

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 13 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%2/56

the rest of the field

10%

4,107/42,302

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.

05the grantee network

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/37

Grantees still filing

29/37

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$3,382,789Other$362,650Youth Development$226,000Arts & Culture$65,000Human Services$45,000Employment$35,000International$10,000Community Improvement$9,500

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.

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.

GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Codeorg · Infosys Foundation USA · Round It Up America Inc · Tides Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of · Columbus Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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 organisation Scratch 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Maker Prep.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~174 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 11.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 831300495 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Maker Prep, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 174 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 68% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Scratch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Scratch Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Scratch Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?