· Private foundation
The Donald W Scott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISU Foundation | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Union Health Foundation | $2,500 |
| Vigo County Education Foundation | $1,000 |
| First Congregational Church | $1,000 |
| Wabash Valley Family Sports Center | $1,000 |
| Swope Art Museum | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The Donald W Scott Foundation’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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM3× · 2020–2022 · $161k · revenue +49%
- CCCatholic Charities Terre Haute Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +34%
- VCVigo County Education Foundation Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- RIRose-Hulman Institute of Technologygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +51%
- SJST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY CATHOLIC CHURCH TERRE HAUTE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k
- GPGarfield Purple Eagle Plazaone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
To enrich the lives of Tippecanoe County residents and visitors by collecting preserving researching and sharing our unique and diverse history
The mission of the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce is to preserve, protect, and promote a business friendly envrionment free of obstacles to growth and development.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Coordinate health care information by providing a community-wide clinical data and information exchange to the health care community.
To provide recreational activities, programs, and supervision for boys and girls
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Advances the common good in the Wabash Valley by partnering with volunteers, companies and organizations to fund quality programs and initiatives in three core impact areas: Education, Health and Community Basics.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Provide philanthropic support to help provide services, equipment, resources and education for indiana university health paoli, inc. ("iu health paoli") to meet the healthcare needs of our community well into the future.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Terre Haute Symphony Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Wabash Valley Family Sports Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
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: Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc · Hulman & Company Foundation Inc · Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018 · Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation · The Weston Wabash Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Hollie & Anna Oakley Foundation Inc · The Hux Family Charitable Trust · The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust · Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Frederick R Benson Trust · United Way of the Wabash Valley 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 The Donald W Scott 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.
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.