How much did THE SCOTT FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of THE SCOTT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

mothertechnicalfeedalphadaughterschildchristus

2021

policebroadcastingsouthwesteducationallittle rockscholarshiprichland

2022

kappagraduationcolumbusnashvilletechnologyequinecalvary

2023

neighborpointnwalavergneharvest foodoperationsports

2024

dixiearcchattanoogawest monroecolumbusnwastar

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 256 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k235 grants · $295k
$10k–50k16 grants · $204k
$50k–250k5 grants · $358k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants

THOMAS H & SCOTT CHARITABLE FUND$150,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LA$55,750
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$51,815
PILOTS FOR PATIENTS$50,500
M D ANDERSON CANCER RESEARCH$50,000
LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME$24,500
RAYS OF SONSHINE$20,000
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY - BATON ROUGE$17,500
MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$15,500
THE BRIDGE ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA$15,000
ST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$11,000
THE HIGHLAND CENTER$10,000
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY$10,000
OUACHITA COUNCIL ON AGING$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.4M · 389 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

389 repeat relationships — 196 still active in FY2024, 193 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

389

186

Total granted

$3.4M

$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+30%

Still filing today

27%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL
5× · 2020–2024 · $237k · revenue +74%
FB
FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA
5× · 2020–2024 · $151k · revenue +97%
PF
PILOTS FOR PATIENTS
5× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +515%

Funded once

CI
CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA - UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN NEEDS
one grant, 2022 · $20k
UW
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -32%
SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NORTHEAST LA
one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Heart of Louisiana Humane Society

Animals

Christus Health Central Louisiana

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in comformity with the roman catholic church.

Health

Christus Health Southwestern Louisiana

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.

Health

Schnauzer Rescue of Louisiana

Rescue of schnauzer dogs

Animals

Louisiana United Methodist Children &

We guide children and families home to experience god's love by following the teachings of christ.the louisiana united methodist children and family services, inc. (lumcfs) the organization provides louisiana's most intensive and…

Human Services

Louisiana Christian University

Operation of baptist college campus

Education

Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission

The shreveport-bossier rescue mission, inc. exists to pursue the passion of jesus christ to lift up the hungry, homeless, abused and addicted.

Housing & Shelter

Northwest Louisiana Food Bank

Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.

Food & Nutrition

Southwest Louisiana Aids Council

To provide education to the people of southwest louisiana about hiv/aids, hiv prevention, and to offer medical and social services to people living with hiv.

Health

New Orleans Habitat for Humanity

To responsibly build communities where families can thrive, in homes they can afford.

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Grace House Texarkana Inc

Grace House exists to rescue and advocate for women and families at risk.

Housing & Shelter

Louisiana Alpha House

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Lyon College. 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.

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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%1/225

the rest of the field

15%

3,017/20,784

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.

05the grantee network

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

187/197

Grantees still filing

140/197

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,841,152Health$368,415Human Services$305,607Education$114,130Food & Nutrition$81,000Youth Development$60,500Philanthropy$36,400

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.

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.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield OfLA34.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Cross & Blue Shield Of · Community Foundation of Acadiana · The Community Foundation of North · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Christus Health · Albemarle Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New · American Electric Power Foundation · Feeding America · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Cadence Bank 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 organisation THE SCOTT FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WELLSPRING.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 721421859 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WELLSPRING, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Scott Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Scott Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE SCOTT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Scott Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE SCOTT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Scott Foundation?

More from the funding graph