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The Scoob Trust 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2020
39
Grants FY2020
14
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$6.9MAnimals$175kHuman Services$110kEnvironment$80kCrime & Legal$60kHealth$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kEducation$45kOther$0
02FY2020 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $750,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,130,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $380,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$15,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fisher House Foundation$40,000
Himalayan Cataract Project$40,000
Innocence Project$35,000
Sheldrick Wildlife Trust$35,000
National Park Foundation$30,000
Humane Society of the US$30,000
Homes for Our Troops$30,000
Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)$30,000
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation$25,000
Wildland Firefighters Foundation$25,000
Montana Childrens Home & Hospital$25,000
Southwest Montana Veterans Home$25,000
National Center for Youth Law$25,000
Montana Food Bank$20,000
4 Paws For Ability$20,000
02Your 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
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
United States Naval Institute

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.

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6
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
11
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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12
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterCivil Legal ServicesCollege Foundation SupportVolunteer Fire & RescueGovernment Accountability &…Food Pantries and AssistanceChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Classical Music Orchestras
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr16%50%20–35yr19%25%35–55yr15%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr16%55%20–35yr19%22%35–55yr15%10%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
8%
819/9,940

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.

03the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
27/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCSheldrick Wildlife Trust — $35,000 · OtherSheldrick Wildlife TrustNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONPerforming Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) — $30,000 · OtherPerforming Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)Southwest Montana Veterans Home — $25,000 · OtherSouthwest Montana Veterans HomeNational Center for Youth Law — $25,000 · OtherNational Center for Youth LawFood Bank Of Monterey Co. — $15,000 · OtherGreater Aspirations Scholarship Program — $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · OtherHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $30,000 · OtherHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INCFRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC — $20,000 · OtherMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC — $20,000 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Other+6 more — $60,000 · Other+6 moreHumane World for Animals Inc — $30,000 · AnimalsHumane World …AMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS — $20,000 · AnimalsAMBOSELI TRUS…AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN VETE…HEART OF THE VALLEY INC — $15,000 · AnimalsHEART OF THE …K9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $10,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRI…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCEN…PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $20,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PAW…4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $20,000 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR …WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentWILDLAND …350ORG — $10,000 · Environment350ORGGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $10,000 · EnvironmentGREATER Y…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL R…WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentWATERKEEP…MONTANA CHILDREN'S HOME AND HOSPITAL — $25,000 · HealthMONTANA C…NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL …ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER…Montana State University Foundation Inc — $15,000 · EducationTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC — $40,000 · International
Other$375,000Animals$90,000Human Services$75,000Environment$65,000Health$60,000Education$45,000International$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMONTANA CHILDREN'S HOME AND HOSPITAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MONTANA PBS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMBOSELI TRUST FOR ELEPHANTS — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTANA FOOD BANK NETWORK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF THE VALLEY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget350ORG — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthworks — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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 39 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.1M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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