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The Edward W & Betty Knight Scripps Foundation at a glance

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The Edward W & Betty Knight Scripps Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$1.3M
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$3.2MEducation$1.5MInternational$770kPublic Safety & Disaster$400kHousing & Shelter$250kArts & Culture$208kHuman Services$200kScience & Tech$160kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.6M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mayo Clinic$1,250,000
Harvard College$1,000,000
Boston Children's Hospital$400,000
Doctors Without Borders aka Medicins Sans Frontieres$150,000
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School$150,000
Dana Farber Cancer Institute$150,000
Benevolent Healthcare Foundation dba Project CURE$100,000
ProPublica Inc$100,000
National PERT Consortium Pulmonary Embolism Response Team$100,000
Women's Lunch Place$75,000
Harvard Law School$50,000
Spirit of America$50,000
Carroll School$50,000
Horizons for Homeless Children$50,000
Catie's Closet$25,000
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 (FY22–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Homes Not Borders: $50k → 11%Homes Not Borders: $50k → 11%Homes Not Borders: $25k → 11%Horizons for Homeless Children: $50k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $50k → 16%Catie's Closet: $50k → 8%Catie's Closet: $25k → 8%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

NH
MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 18% of The Edward W & Betty Knight Scripps Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Edward W & Betty Knight Scripps Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.9% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 17 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
14

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+19%

Still filing today

76%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $550k · revenue +13%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +13%
  • SH
    SHADY HILL SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • MG
    Massachusetts General HospitaL
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • TM
    THE MAYO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • SH
    SCRIPPS HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +47%
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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
8
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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9
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
10
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pro Publica Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

23 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. 23 of the 39 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Harvard College: $1,000,000 · OtherHarvard CollegeDoctors Without Borders aka Medicins Sans Frontieres: $300,000 · OtherDoctors Without Borders aka Medicins Sans Fr…Massachusetts General HospitaL: $250,000 · OtherMassachusetts General HospitaLTHE MAYO FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherTHE MAYO FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNational PERT Consortium Pulmonary Embolism Response Team: $200,000 · OtherNational PERT Consortium Pulmonary Embolism …WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $150,000 · OtherWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INCBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 · Other+10 more: $320,500 · Other+10 moreMAYO CLINIC: $1,250,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICChildren's Hospital Corporation: $550,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $300,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncSCRIPPS HEALTH: $250,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION+3 more: $70,000 · HealthSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationSHADY HILL…BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationBUCKINGHAM…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $150,000 · EducationPresident …THE CARROLL SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationTHE CARROL…Spirit of America Worldwide: $200,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $150,000 · InternationalWater for South Sudan Inc: $45,000 · InternationalHOMES NOT BORDERS INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $100,000 · Human ServicesCatie's Closet Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesPRO PUBLICA INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsTEAM RUBICON INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$2,770,500Health$2,620,000Education$650,000International$395,000Human Services$300,000Arts & Culture$200,000Civil Rights$100,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $550,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $250,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES NOT BORDERS INC: $125,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWater for South Sudan Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Edward W & Betty Knight Scripps Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward W & Betty Knight Scripps Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 39 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home