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The Paul Scammell Foundation at a glance

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The Paul Scammell 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.

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$168kEducation$127kInternational$82kHealth$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kFood & Nutrition$18k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$6,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMENS AUDIO MISSION$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$10,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$10,000
MERCY CORPS$6,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$5,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$5,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 12%NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%TECHBRIDGE GIRLS: $43k → 10%WOMENS AUDIO MISSION: $15k → 10%INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $1k → 11%MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED: $10k → 14%MERCY CORPS: $2k → 12%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC: $10k → 9%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 12%TECHBRIDGE GIRLS: $20k → 10%WOMENS AUDIO MISSION: $15k → 10%FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10k → 17%MERCY CORPS: $1k → 12%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC: $5k → 9%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC: $3k → 12%TECHBRIDGE GIRLS: $20k → 10%WOMENS AUDIO MISSION: $15k → 10%FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10k → 17%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC: $5k → 9%AWESOME THEATRE: $20k → 10%WOMENS AUDIO MISSION: $10k → 10%FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2k → 17%TECHBRIDGE GIRLS: $15k → 10%WOMENS AUDIO MISSION: $10k → 10%JDRF INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 17%AWESOME THEATRE: $15k → 10%WOMENS AUDIO MISSION: $10k → 10%TECHBRIDGE GIRLS: $10k → 10%WOMENS AUDIO MISSION: $10k → 10%AWESOME THEATRE: $10k → 10%WOMENS AUDIO MISSION: $5k → 10%TECHBRIDGE GIRLS: $9k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $6k → 10%AWESOME THEATRE: $2k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $5k → 10%TECHBRIDGE GIRLS: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3k → 10%MURAL: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $2k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $1k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $500 → 10%NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%CLARION PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $5k → 10%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

MN
NY
OR
IA
CT
CA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$421k · 12 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$421k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+34%

Still filing today

92%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationArts & CultureEmploymentHealthOther
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

  • WA
    Womens Audio Mission
    8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +114%
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    6× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $22k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CP
    CLARION PERFORMING ARTS CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +219%
  • MS
    MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • MC
    Mural Companygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +31%
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
3
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
4
Solar Cookers International

The mission of Solar Cookers International is to improve human health, economic well-being, womens empowerment, and the environment by promoting climate-friendly solar cooking for vulnerable populations worldwide.

Environment
5
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
6
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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7
Health Poverty Action Usa

Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…

International
8
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
9
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
10
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
11
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
12
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clarion Performing Arts Center. 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 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. 14 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Techbridge Girls: $127,200 · EducationTechbridge GirlsMural Company: $5,000 · EducationMercy Corps: $25,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federat…International Rescue Committee INC: $12,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Comm…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES …NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $8,500 · InternationalNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalWomens Audio Mission: $90,000 · EmploymentWomens Audio MissionAWESOME THEATRE: $46,000 · OtherAWESOME THEATRESAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $17,500 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOO…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT: $5,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRO…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureCLARION PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $5,450 · Arts & CultureBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $22,000 · Health
Education$132,200International$97,000Employment$90,000Other$68,500Arts & Culture$27,450Health$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTechbridge Girls: $127,200 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetWomens Audio Mission: $90,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMercy Corps: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLARION PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $5,450 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMural Company: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $1,000 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Paul Scammell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul Scammell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–75%
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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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