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The Scott Foundation at a glance

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The Scott Foundation

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.

$524k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$494kEmployment$150kEnvironment$121kPhilanthropy$66kHealth$62kArts & Culture$51kCrime & Legal$41kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$250,000
Trout Unlimited$60,000
Year Up Inc.$50,000
The University of Texas at Austin$25,000
Connecticut Humane Society$25,000
The Trevor Project$25,000
Navy SEAL Foundation Inc.$25,000
Lake Rabun Foundation$20,000
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc.$10,000
F.A.I.T.H in Rabun County, Inc.$10,000
Saint Helena Catholic Church$5,000
Food Bank of Northeast Georgia$5,000
Vanderbilt University$5,000
Innocence Project Inc.$5,000
Doctors Without Borders USA Inc.$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Year Up: $50k → 16%Warriors and Quiet Waters: $1k → 10%University of Pennsylvania: $25k → 22%See Attached List: $815k → 7%Doctors Without Borders: $1k → 17%Families Empowered: $1k → 16%Darien Police Association: $1k → 9%University of North Carolina: $50k → 13%Lake Rabun Annual Fund: $25k → 12%Lakemmont Wiley Fire Department: $1k → 13%Marist School: $3k → 14%See Attached List: $437k → 7%Dance Lab New York: $500 → 17%Darien Land Trust: $1k → 9%See Attached List: $329k → 7%Convent of St Brigitta: $1k → 9%Darien Medical Services: $1k → 9%Community Fund of Darien: $1k → 9%A Better Chance: $1k → 9%Darien Fire Department: $1k → 9%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

MT
NY
MA
PA
CT
TN
NC
GA
TX
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$824k · 9 repeat orgs$273k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

$824k
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+14%

Still filing today

56%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • FI
    FAITH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +61%
  • Vanderbilt University
    3× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +65%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of North Carolina
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • MS
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • LR
    Lake Rabun Annual Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
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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2
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy of New York City Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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

18 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. 18 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $275,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLTrout Unlimited Inc.: $120,000 · OtherTrout Unlimited Inc.University of Texas at Austin: $116,668 · OtherUniversity of Texas at AustinUniversity of North Carolina: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of North CarolinaMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $25,000 · OtherLake Rabun Annual Fund: $25,000 · Other+19 more: $94,000 · Other+19 moreYEAR UP INC: $200,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSIT…Vanderbilt University: $15,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversitySPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFAITH INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalCITY HARVEST INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTREVOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 · Animals
Other$705,668Education$251,000Arts & Culture$50,000Crime & Legal$35,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Civil Rights$25,000Animals$25,000

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 budgetYEAR UP INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDARIEN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES EMPOWERED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDARIEN POLICE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Scott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 36 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $815k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home