Iowa · 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.
- $189k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $41,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations The George H Scanlon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $189k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $173k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $165k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $158k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $181k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $173k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $168k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $195k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc | $210,910 | 9 | 0% |
| Headlock Wrestling Academy | $155,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Oceana Inc | $114,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $98,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | $45,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Operation Walk Chicago | $38,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $37,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Brookline Arts Center | $24,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Fixn Fidos Inc | $22,500 | 6 | 4% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($600k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The George H Scanlon Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The George H Scanlon Foundation
- How much does The George H Scanlon Foundation give?
- The George H Scanlon Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $188,885 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The George H Scanlon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (23%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are The George H Scanlon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc ($211k), Headlock Wrestling Academy ($156k), Oceana Inc ($114k).
- Does The George H Scanlon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The George H Scanlon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The George H Scanlon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Allen & Franka Charlupski Foundation, The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation.
- Where is The George H Scanlon Foundation based?
- The George H Scanlon Foundation is based in IA.
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