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The Aj and Lynda Scribante Charitable Foundation

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.

$431k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$94k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE AJ AND LYNDA SCRIBANTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $144k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANIBEL COMMUNITY CHURCH$94,200
MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION$50,000
THE IMMACULATA CHURCH$25,000
BOYS TOWN$25,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HEALTH$20,000
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
SANCTUARY CHARITY FOUNDATION$15,000
JESUIT RETREAT HOUSE$15,000
SALVATION ARMY OF FORT MYERS$15,000
SCHOOL SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS$10,000
REMOUNT FOUNDATION$10,000
YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC$10,000
CREIGHTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ CENTER$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 9%BOYS TOWN: $25k → 12%PETE'S GARDEN INC: $1k → 15%BOYS TOWN: $25k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $25k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $10k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $2k → 12%FISH OF SANCAP: $10k → 11%FISH OF SANCAP: $7k → 11%FISH OF SANCAP: $5k → 11%FISH OF SANCAP: $5k → 11%FISH OF SANCAP: $5k → 11%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
KS
DC
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 33 repeat orgs$412k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
25

Total granted

$1.4M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+25%

Still filing today

30%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    5× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +26%
  • DD
    DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +329%
  • DP
    Darren Patterson Christian Academy
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • CU
    Creighton University
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +25%
  • CA
    CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
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
3
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

4
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
5
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
6
National Academy of Public Administration

The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non partisan Organization established in 1967 and chartered by Congress in 1984. See Schedule O

Public Benefit
7
Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc

Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…

Education
8
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

11
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
12
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 backsteadyChild and Family ServicesVeteran Support ServicesPublic University Foundatio…Food Pantries & AssistanceFallen First Responder Supp…School Parent OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Government Accountability R…Independent K-8 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and Adoption
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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,533

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

24 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. 24 of the 71 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC FOUNDATIONKANSAS STATE FOUNDATION — $105,000 · OtherKANSAS STATE FOUNDATIONSANIBEL COMMUNITY CHURCH — $94,200 · OtherSANIBEL COMMUNITY CHURCHJESUIT RETREAT HOUSE OF CLEVELAND JESUIT RETREAT — $85,000 · OtherJESUIT RETREAT HOUSE OF CLEVELAND JESUIT RETREATIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP — $63,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPSAINT ISABEL CHURCH — $56,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FALLEN — $42,000 · OtherTHE SCHOOL SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS — $40,000 · Other+44 more — $418,882 · Other+44 moreREMOUNT FOUNDATION — $230,000 · HealthREMOUNT FOUNDATI…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $40,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH …+1 more — $1,000 · HealthDarren Patterson Christian Academy — $50,000 · EducationDarren Pa…SIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationSIGMA PHI…Creighton University — $20,000 · EducationCreighton…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationKANSAS ST…CASTLE PINES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $13,000 · EducationCASTLE PI…Father Flanagan's Boys' Home — $87,000 · Human ServicesFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC — $32,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY — $50,000 · Public BenefitHONOR BELL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Public BenefitDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $50,000 · Animals+1 more — $500 · Animals
Other$1,119,082Health$271,000Education$158,000Human Services$120,000Philanthropy$56,500Public Benefit$52,000Animals$50,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREMOUNT FOUNDATION — $230,000 over 6y, 37% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home — $87,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDarren Patterson Christian Academy — $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC — $32,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCreighton University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETJETS FAMILY FOUNDATION — $14,076 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCASTLE PINES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHONOR BELL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPTA COLORADO CONGRESS d/b/a Kendallvue Elementary PTA — $2,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCops Direct — $706 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars of The United States — $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 REMOUNT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
  • Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
  • Who funds Darren Patterson Christian Academy
  • Who funds YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC
  • Who funds SIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
  • Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC
  • Who funds Creighton University
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NETJETS FAMILY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CASTLE PINES SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION 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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization The Aj and Lynda Scribante Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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Find your warmest path to The Aj and Lynda Scribante Charitable Foundation 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 71 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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