· Private foundation
The Robert P and Mariana R Scripps Family Foundation Inc
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $904k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| FREDERICKSBURG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $100,000 |
| TEXSAR INC | $81,667 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $81,666 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION - SIO | $75,000 |
| SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $69,167 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $60,834 |
| ARK OF HIGHLAND LAKES | $60,833 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
| ORDINARY NURSES DBA CASA TABITO | $50,000 |
| AUSTIN PETS ALIVE | $45,833 |
| CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $16,667 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $16,667 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $618k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Robert P and Mariana R Scripps Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +84% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2018–2025 · $501k · revenue +163%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2022–2024 · $367k · revenue +13%- FCFredericksburg Community Health Center5× · 2018–2025 · $288k · revenue +229%
Funded once
- BPBRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INCone grant, 2023 · $215k · revenue -35%
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LIVER DISEASES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $178k · revenue -35%
United Way of Greater Houstonone grant, 2017 · $172k · revenue +5%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 35 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
85 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 105 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Fredericksburg Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSIDE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LIVER DISEASES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DISABLED ADULTS & CHILDREN TOO INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING iNC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE AIR FOR KIDS AND FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXSAR INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON 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: Adam R Scripps Foundation · Miramar Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Fredericksburg Social Turn Verein · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Create Healthy Management
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 Robert P and Mariana R Scripps Family Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
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