· Private foundation
The George H Scanlon 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $41,000 |
| COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION | $24,760 |
| OPERATION WALK CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $15,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NORTH LIBERTY COMMNITY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| CORE SCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $6,000 |
| BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| MSPCA | $5,000 |
| FIX N FIDOS | $5,000 |
| PROVINCETOWN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC | $2,500 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 8 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- CCCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +91%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +78%
BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
- TETHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +41%
- OCOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +39%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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…
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.
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.…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Englert Civic Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Conor Lynch Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 101 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 COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Operation Walk Chicago ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Brookline Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Fixn Fidos Inc ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY EELS SWIM CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COVE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
- Who funds HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds DEBO INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL 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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Allen & Franka Charlupski Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Brookline Community Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation · Susan & Barry E Tatelman Family Foundation · Rdmsj Charitable Trust Dtd 101392 · John and Golda Cohen Trust · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund
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 George H Scanlon 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brookline Arts Center — 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Brookline Teen Center — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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.