· Private foundation
The Donald W Scott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The Donald W Scott Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Donald W Scott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donald W Scott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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