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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.

$896k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$677kArts & Culture$178kFood & Nutrition$172kEducation$162kHuman Services$89kAnimals$24kScience & Tech$24kYouth Development$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $537,378, the rows itemized in this filing. The $896,313 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $358,935 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $292k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$10,603
Median grant
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States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Golden Harvest Foodbank Inc$15,000
Feeding San Diego$15,000
MANNA Foodbank Inc$15,000
Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc$14,617
United Way Of Palm Beach County$14,339
United Way of Indian River County$14,339
United Way of Martin County Inc$14,339
United Way of St Lucie & Okeechobee$14,339
Society for Science and the Public$12,000
Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc$10,603
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Babycycle Inc: $5k → 12%Hardee County Ministerial Association: $10k → 25%Greater Milwaukee Urban League: $13k → 17%American National Red Cross: $7k → 16%The Planning Council: $16k → 19%Center for Rural StrategiesThe Daily Yonder: $12k → 29%American National Red Cross: $11k → 14%Raising Relief Foundation Inc: $5k → 12%Hands Across the Bay: $11k → 12%My Warrior's Place Inc: $12k → 13%Hands Across the Bay: $8k → 12%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

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WI
MI
MA
SD
IN
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
NC
DC
HI
OK
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Scripps Howard Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Scripps Howard Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$373k · 10 repeat orgs$895k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
39

Total granted

$373k
$486k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+21%

Still filing today

90%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $409k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $92k · revenue +9%
  • FS
    FEEDING SAN DIEGO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +8%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $44k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +17%
  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +31%
  • DL
    DAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +41%
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc

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.

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3
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
6
Feeding South Florida Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

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.

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8
Heart of Florida United Way Inc

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.

Philanthropy
9
Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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11
Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…

Food & Nutrition
12
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
43/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $91,500 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INCFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $45,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGOFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $35,176 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIESHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF …FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $24,617 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY …AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST O…MANNA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $41,206 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreScripps National Spelling Bee: $100,000 · OtherScripps National Spelling BeeSALVATION ARMY: $26,404 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $25,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCDAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $25,000 · OtherDAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER …NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 · OtherNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INCSOL RELIEF: $18,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $24,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC+20 more: $181,020 · Other+20 moreUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $44,335 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO …ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE…MATLACHA HOOKERS INC: $6,500 · EducationOklahoma State University Foundation: $6,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $28,327 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…JULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC: $19,487 · Human ServicesJULIE WEINTR…THE PLANNING COUNCIL: $16,389 · Human ServicesTHE PLANNING…MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $13,409 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE UR…MY WARRIOR'S PLACE INC: $12,090 · Human ServicesMY WARRIOR'S…THE CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER F…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $10,603 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHA…HARDEE COUNTY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHARDEE COUNT…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF S…SOUTH CENTRAL FAMILY CENTER INC: $6,655 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $5,520 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human Services+2 moreHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $83,922 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COM…UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $14,339 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $14,339 · PhilanthropyUnited Way…UNITED WAY OF ST LUCIE & OKEECHOBEE INC: $14,339 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN RANGER CORPS: $8,000 · Housing & ShelterSUREL'S PLACE INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureLOWER CAPE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA WATCH INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA NEWS WATCH: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWCIJ INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Food & Nutrition$322,499Other$449,424Education$168,835Human Services$154,480Philanthropy$126,939Housing & Shelter$83,000Arts & Culture$72,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $91,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $83,922 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $44,335 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUREL'S PLACE INC: $36,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $35,176 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $28,327 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $24,617 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC: $19,487 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSOL RELIEF: $18,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE PLANNING COUNCIL: $16,389 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $14,339 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $14,339 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST LUCIE & OKEECHOBEE INC: $14,339 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $13,409 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMY WARRIOR'S PLACE INC: $12,090 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetB&B SPORTS ACADEMY: $11,156 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $10,660 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $10,603 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $10,603 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC: $10,603 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristians Reaching Out To Society Inc: $10,603 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUTUAL AID DISASTER RELIEF INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHARDEE COUNTY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SOUTH GEORGIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Pinellas County Inc & Subsidiaries: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetColorado Healing Fund: $8,505 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN RANGER CORPS: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

The Scripps Howard Fo…Publix Super Markets …Community Foundation …Institute for Nonprof…The Miami Foundation …The Chicago Community…Enterprise Holdings F…Allegany Franciscan M…The Richard M Schulze…Gulf Coast Community …Rochester Area Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…
The Scripps Howard FoundationOH22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Scripps Howard Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scripps Howard Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 72 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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