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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.

$856k
Granted FY2024still arriving
256
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$915kHealth$886kPhilanthropy$359kFood & Nutrition$338kHuman Services$283kReligion$234kYouth Development$209kCommunity Improvement$147kOther$0
02FY2024 · 256 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k235 grants · $295k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $358k
$500
Median grant
14
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MONROE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILEE$10,000
LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHEEP DOG IMPACT ASSISTANCE: $2k → 8%JEREMIAH RECOVERY HOUSE INC: $500 → 16%EVERYONES WILSON: $1k → 7%COFFEE COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 → 17%HOUSE OF GRACE: $500 → 10%LARC: $500 → 17%SHEEP DOG IMPACT ASSISTANCE: $1k → 8%JEREMIAH RECOVERY HOUSE INC: $500 → 16%ARKANSAS DREAM CENTER: $500 → 17%EVERYONES WILSON: $550 → 7%JAE & ZEKE FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%FAMILY PROMISE OF ST TAMMANY: $500 → 11%LARC: $500 → 17%JEREMIAH RECOVERY HOUSE INC: $500 → 16%JAE & ZEKE FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 → 9%THE RECLAIMED PROJECT: $500 → 24%LARC: $500 → 17%SHEEP DOG IMPACT ASSISTANCE: $500 → 8%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $16k → 22%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $3k → 19%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 → 9%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $500 → 14%HEARTSTRINGS & ANGEL WINGS: $500 → 18%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $15k → 22%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2k → 19%SHEEP DOG IMPACT ASSISTANCE: $500 → 8%ARKANSAS DREAM CENTER: $500 → 17%FOR THE SAKE OF ONE: $500 → 23%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $15k → 22%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $500 → 9%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $3k → 22%ARKANSAS DREAM CENTER: $500 → 17%FOR THE SAKE OF ONE: $500 → 23%SOLES4SOULS: $500 → 14%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $500 → 19%HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY: $3k → 22%SHEEP DOG IMPACT ASSISTANCE: $500 → 8%THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $5k → 22%PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $51k → 24%PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $3k → 24%PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $3k → 24%PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $2k → 24%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA: $50k → 24%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA: $42k → 24%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA: $36k → 24%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA: $22k → 24%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA: $2k → 24%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

MN
IA
IN
OH
UT
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 389 repeat orgs$414k to everyone else

389 repeat relationships: 197 still active in FY2024, 192 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

389
183

Total granted

$3.4M
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+23%

Still filing today

36%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $237k · revenue +78%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $151k · revenue +68%
  • LB
    LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER
    2× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • HC
    HINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Grace House Texarkana Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
2
Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless

The Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless (CAAH) holds the fundamental belief that everyone, no matter how deprived in circumstances of housing and necessities is valued, entitled to dignity and respect, and deserving of community…

Community Improvement
3
Crossroads

Crossroads connects children in crisis to the families, individuals, and opportunities they need to thrive primarily through the recruitment, development, and support of foster families in Louisiana.

Housing & Shelter
4
Acadiana Outreach Center Inc

Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.

Religion
5
Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter in Dba Everhope Arkansas Inc

To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.

Human Services
6
Feeding Louisiana

The mission of the association shall be to promote communication and interaction among members and to provide education and training programs on issues of hunger and food banking.

Food & Nutrition
7
Baton Rouge Area Alcohol and Drug Center Inc

BRAADC offers a lifeline to adult men and women suffering with substance abuse/addiction through providing non-medical detoxification services to anyone entering voluntarily.

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8
Louisiana Disabled Persons Housing Corp

Provide low cost housing to handicapped adults

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9
Childrens Advocacy Center - Hope House

To provide a child-oriented, multidisciplinary forensice interview enviroment facility and counseling center for victims of abuse and their families.

Civil Rights
10
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…

Health
11
Children's Advocacy Network Inc

The mission of the children's advocacy network is to help heal and champion abused and neglected children throughout central louisiana

Crime & Legal
12
Children's Refuge Ministries

Dedicated to the promotion and protection of the general health and well being of children in chickasaw county, ms and surrounding areas by providing food, clothing, and other support for children and families in need.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Louisiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is Great Results Equine Assisted Therapies. 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

235 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. 235 of the 632 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
224/235
Grantees still filing
145/235
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

M D ANDERSON CANCER RESEARCH: $230,000 · OtherM D ANDERSON CANCER RESEARCHTHOMAS H & SCOTT CHARITABLE FUND: $150,000 · OtherTHOMAS H & SCOTT CHARITABLE FUNDUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LA: $136,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LALOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES: $119,000 · OtherARCO - A COMMUNITY RESOURCE: $85,000 · Other+153 more: $1,730,270 · Other+153 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $236,815 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…THE BRIDGE ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER: $46,250 · HealthTHE BRIDGE A…Grace Place Ministries Inc: $20,500 · HealthGrace Place …1900 CLUB: $19,250 · HealthST VINCENT DE PAUL COMM PHARMACY: $15,500 · HealthGREAT RESULTS EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPIES: $15,000 · Health+7 more: $27,500 · Health+7 moreFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC: $151,310 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK…PILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $57,264 · Human ServicesPILOTS FO…HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I: $50,500 · Human ServicesHOLY ANGE…+8 more: $26,900 · Human Services+8 moreRAYS OF SONSHINE: $62,000 · Food & NutritionARKANSAS FOODBANK: $18,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $15,000 · Food & NutritionMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $7,500 · Food & NutritionMATTHEW 2535 MINISTRIES: $7,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $5,500 · Food & NutritionHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $5,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionBROADEN HORIZONS: $56,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $7,250 · Youth DevelopmentOklahoma Christian University: $19,000 · EducationCENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $10,000 · EducationLYON COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · EducationOUACHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $4,000 · EducationMONROE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA DELTA BALLET: $4,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,450,770Health$380,815Human Services$285,974Food & Nutrition$125,500Youth Development$63,250Education$57,500Arts & Culture$29,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $236,815 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC: $151,310 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAYS OF SONSHINE: $62,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetPILOTS FOR PATIENTS: $57,264 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetBROADEN HORIZONS: $56,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I: $50,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER: $46,250 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONROE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetOUACHITA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $36,400 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMONROE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $25,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetGrace Place Ministries Inc: $20,500 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetWELLSPRING INC LAUREN LAGARDE PRESIDENT: $20,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetOklahoma Christian University: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Center for Children & Families Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL COMM PHARMACY: $15,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF CROWVILLE: $15,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RESULTS EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPIES: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON GROUND ANGELS: $12,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetISTROUMA AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,300 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HIGHLAND CENTER CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $10,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP ALDERSGATE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $7,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHearts and Hands of Baytown Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMATTHEW 2535 MINISTRIES: $7,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMED-CAMPS OF LOUISIANA INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABRAHAM'S TENT ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSheep Dog Impact Assistance: $4,900 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLOUISIANA DELTA BALLET: $4,500 over 5y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds LIFESHARE BLOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RAYS OF SONSHINE ↗
  • Who funds PILOTS FOR PATIENTS ↗
  • Who funds BROADEN HORIZONS ↗
  • Who funds HOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MONROE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
  • Who funds OUACHITA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds MONROE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds Grace Place Ministries Inc ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Blue Cross & Blue Shi…Community Foundation …Christus HealthSecond Harvest Food B…American Electric Pow…Living Well FoundationBaton Rouge Area Foun…Ledwell Family Founda…Shell USA Company Fou…Albemarle FoundationCommunity Foundation …
Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA37.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Christus Health · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · American Electric Power Foundation · Living Well Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Ledwell Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana

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 · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oklahoma Christian University: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 632 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.

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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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