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Scripps Howard Fund
The mission of the Scripps Howard Fund (the Fund) is to create informed and engaged communities through journalism education, childhood literacy and local causes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $537,378 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $896,313 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $358,935 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Memphis Foundation | $100,000 |
| Scripps National Spelling Bee | $100,000 |
| Forgotten Harvest Inc | $31,403 |
| America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend | $20,000 |
| Surel's Place (Voces Internship of Idaho) | $18,000 |
| MANNA Foodbank Inc | $15,000 |
| Feeding San Diego | $15,000 |
| Golden Harvest Foodbank Inc | $15,000 |
| Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc | $14,617 |
| United Way of Martin County Inc | $14,339 |
| United Way of St Lucie & Okeechobee | $14,339 |
| United Way of Indian River County | $14,339 |
| United Way Of Palm Beach County | $14,339 |
| Society for Science and the Public | $12,000 |
| Palms West Presbyterian Church Inc | $10,603 |
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 (FY22–23, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of Scripps Howard Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 21 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $409k 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
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC2× · 2023–2024 · $92k · revenue +9%- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGO3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +8%
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $44k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +17%
- HFHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +125%
- NCNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +15%
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.
Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Engaging the community to end hunger
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mercy Full Project 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.
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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 72 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
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 UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUREL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds JULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds SOL RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST LUCIE & OKEECHOBEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MY WARRIOR'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds B&B SPORTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Christians Reaching Out To Society 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.
Open a dossier: The Scripps Howard Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Institute for Nonprofit News · The Miami Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · The Pfizer 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 Scripps Howard Fund 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.
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc — 12% of income from government
- America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- David Lawrence Mental Health Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Naples Community Hospital 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.