· Private foundation
The Charles E and Mary Elizabeth Scripps 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE CHARLES E AND MARY ELIZABETH SCRIPPS FOUNDATION INC’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k13 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT PATRICK SCHOOL | $85,000 |
| SAINT PATRICK CHURCH | $80,000 |
| CASA FOR KIDS INC | $50,000 |
| MOUNTAIN REGION SPEECH & HEARING CENTER | $50,000 |
| SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE OF SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS INDIANA | $50,000 |
| MAYSVILLE PLAYERS INC | $45,000 |
| MAYSVILLE INITIATIVES INC | $43,000 |
| FRIENDS IN NEED HEALTH CENTER INC | $40,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COVINGTON | $30,000 |
| LIMESTONE MINISTRIES INC | $30,000 |
| TOM BROWNING BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $30,000 |
| LICKING VALLEY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| COMPREHEND INC | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TENNESSEE | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MRMountain Region Speech and Hearing Center9× · 2017–2025 · $509k · revenue +6%
- CFCASA for Kids Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $349k · revenue +71%
- FIFriends in Need Health Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER CINCINNATIone grant, 2022 · $30k
- LMLIMESTONE MINISTRIES INC DBA COMMUNITY CARE OF MASON COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $30k
- GCGuadalupe Center Incone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +2%
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.
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
Provide a safe and compassionate, child focused center to promptly and thoroughly investigate child abuse.
Community mental health center
To provide childcare
Speech therapy and testing
Mcneilly center for children is a non-profit child care center providing quality, affordable child care to ages 6 weeks through 5 years of age to nashville families.
Provide food and shelter for the homeless.
Walker County Childrens Advocacy Center, Inc. will provide services to child victims of physical and sexual abuse, severely neglected children and children who have witnessed a violent crime. The Center will work every day to try and stop…
To educate Gainesville families on health diet and lifestyle and specialize in assisting "on the spectrum" families with therapy services for children that include physical occupational & speech therapy
The mission of the organization is to provide a powerful voice for abused and neglected children by advocating for each child, within the court's jurisdiction, in order to ensure safety, permancy and an opportunity to thrive.
Low income boarding house
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Collier County Flor and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Region Speech and Hearing Center. 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 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 46 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 Mountain Region Speech and Hearing Center ↗
- Who funds CASA for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends in Need Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds MAYSVILLE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds MAYSVILLE INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds WALD PARK INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LICKING VALLEY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds MAYSVILLE & MASON CO LIBRARY HISTORICAL & SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds PATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds Warrior Ridge Co ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR ↗
- Who funds COMPREHEND INC ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
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.
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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 Charles E and Mary Elizabeth Scripps Foundation Inc 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.
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University 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.