California · Private foundation
The 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $863,880
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations The Scott Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $1.7M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.8M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $1.7M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.1M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $1.3M | 32% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $1.1M | 50% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $927k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillbrook School | $4,061,705 | 8 | 4% |
| Ace Charter School | $995,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Tech Interactive | $486,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $461,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation | $450,000 | 5 | 1% |
| American Council on Education | $375,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Share Our Strength | $340,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc | $300,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The American Independent Foundation | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Peninsula Bridge Program | $195,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Scott Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Applied Materials Foundation · Gates Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · Excite Credit Union (Fka Alliance Credit Union) · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf)
How this is measured
About The Scott Foundation
- How much does The Scott Foundation give?
- The Scott Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $1,722,380 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Scott Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (62%), Arts & Culture (11%), Civil Rights (6%).
- Who are The Scott Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hillbrook School ($4.1M), Ace Charter School ($995k), The Tech Interactive ($486k).
- Does The Scott Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Scott Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Scott Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is The Scott Foundation based?
- The Scott Foundation is based in CA.
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