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The Joseph C Scott Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$122k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Health$342kHuman Services$256kEducation$213kRecreation & Sports$100kCrime & Legal$70kArts & Culture$44kYouth Development$26kEnvironment$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jefferson Health Foundation$35,000
Rydal Park Health Center$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Horace McGee Foundation$15,000
Curry College$10,000
Human Good$5,000
Drueding Center$5,000
Suffolk University$5,000
Pennypack Ecological Trust$5,000
WHYY$1,000
Emergency Aid of PA$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Baby Bureau: $1k → 6%Drueding Center: $10k → 22%Drueding Center: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$970k · 19 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$970k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+21%

Still filing today

42%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

  • AH
    ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +292%
  • CC
    CURRY COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +2%
  • OY
    OLD YORK ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $31k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SO
    SISTERS OF THE REDEEMER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
3
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Chatham University

Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…

Education
8
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
9
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…

Education
10
John Jay Institute for Faith Society and Law Inc

To prepare principled leaders for faith-informed public service.

Religion
11
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abington Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Old York Road Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Good PA — $201,000 · OtherHuman Good PAHorace McGee Foundation — $100,000 · OtherHorace McGee FoundationJefferson Health Foundation — $85,000 · OtherJefferson Health FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRonald McDonald House — $50,000 · OtherRonald McDonald HouseOLD YORK ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $31,000 · OtherDruding Center Project Rainbow — $30,000 · OtherRydal Park Health Center — $25,000 · Other+14 more — $97,100 · Other+14 moreCURRY COLLEGE — $140,000 · EducationCURRY COLLEGESUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE LAW…ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthABINGTON HEALTH …THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S H…+1 more — $1,000 · HealthFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) — $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentDRUEDING CENTER — $15,000 · Human ServicesBABY BUREAU — $1,000 · Human ServicesWHYY INC — $13,000 · Arts & CultureK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $3,000 · Animals
Other$689,100Education$190,000Health$161,000Youth Development$26,000Human Services$16,000Arts & Culture$13,000Animals$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCURRY COLLEGE — $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOLD YORK ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $31,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION) — $26,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDRUEDING CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWHYY INC — $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY BUREAU — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EMERGENCY AID OF PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInsight Christian Counseling — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CURRY COLLEGE
  • Who funds OLD YORK ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION)
  • Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL
  • Who funds DRUEDING CENTER
  • Who funds WHYY INC
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
  • Who funds BABY BUREAU
  • Who funds KELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND
  • Who funds THE EMERGENCY AID OF PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Insight Christian Counseling

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.

W W Smith Charitable TrustMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: W W Smith Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Joseph C 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Suffolk University1% of income from government
  • Curry College0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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