· Private foundation
The Scott Family Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k80 grants · $203k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARTER CENTER | $30,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $30,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $25,000 |
| SUDAN MUTUAL AID COALITION | $15,000 |
| SUDAN RELIEF FUND | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS | $12,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $10,000 |
| ABORTION CARE NETWORK | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR MENTAL WELLBEI | $5,000 |
| IPAS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR MENTAL WELLBEI | $5,000 |
| SLO NOOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RAINIER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +39%- MPMOUNTAIN PLAY ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +23%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK5× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- NONAMES ON ATTACHED SCHEDULEone grant, 2023 · $232k
- TATHE ALMANOR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -39%
- ACArts Corpsone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -29%
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.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Strabismus Research Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
97 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. 97 of the 152 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 STRABISMUS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PLAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SLIDE RANCH ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALMANOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLO NOOR FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Arts Corps ↗
- Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Lines for Life ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds LA LUZ CENTER ↗
- Who funds Elkhorn Slough Foundation ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COMPASION ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Simon Blattner Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Women Giving as One Inc · Gaia Fund · Manitou Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Sanderson Family Foundation · Kakatu Foundation Inc · John Christopher Bunting 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 Scott Family Fund 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.
- Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% 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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