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The Scott M Panzer Foundation Inc

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.

$248k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$310kScience & Tech$154kHuman Services$99kYouth Development$43kFood & Nutrition$35kHousing & Shelter$30kEnvironment$17kEmployment$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $154k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE 13-2933654$55,000
MAYO CLINIC 41-6011702$30,000
LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER 59-2445926$25,000
COURAGE AND SACRIFICE 46-5536167$21,200
NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM 47-2613531$14,000
OCEANA INC 51-0401308$12,000
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF NYC 13-5600383$12,000
COVENANT HOUSE 13-2725416$10,000
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES 53-0225390$10,000
ADOPT-A-FAMILY OF PALM BEACHES INC 59-2471253$10,000
MARC LUSTAGARTE PANCREATIC CANCER FOUND 31-1611837$10,000
JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSN INC 13-1624148$7,000
POWERSENSE CO SAADIA SHEIKH 83-0716800$5,000
SHARE SELF HELP FOR WOMEN 13-3131914$5,000
CREATIVE ART WORKS 13-3638436$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAYO CLINIC 41-6011702: $30k → 9%MARC LUSTAGARTE PANCREATIC CANCER FOUND 31-1611837: $10k → 6%THE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY 13-5644916: $10k → 9%FRIENDS OF SAINT DOMINIC'S 13-3945769: $5k → 14%NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM 47-2613531: $14k → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES 53-0225390: $10k → 14%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER 59-2445926: $54k → 11%DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION 59-1361955: $5k → 13%OASIS A HAVEN FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN 22-3491573: $5k → 12%COURAGE AND SACRIFICE 46-5536167: $21k → 14%UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION 13-1610451: $4k → 7%THE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY 13-5644916: $5k → 9%OCEANA INC 51-0401308: $12k → 14%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER 59-2445926: $35k → 11%COURAGE AND SACRIFICE 46-5536167: $7k → 14%THE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY 13-5644916: $5k → 9%CREATIVE ART WORKS 13-3638436: $5k → 17%OCEANA INC 51-0401308: $4k → 14%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER 59-2445926: $32k → 11%COURAGE AND SACRIFICE 46-5536167: $5k → 14%SPORTSMEN FOR CHARITY INC 05-0553865: $5k → 9%CREATIVE ART WORKS 13-3638436: $5k → 17%POWERSENSE CO SAADIA SHEIKH 83-0716800: $5k → 14%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER 59-2445926: $25k → 11%POWERSENSE 83-0716800: $5k → 14%LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER 59-2445926: $8k → 11%ADOPT-A-FAMILY OF PALM BEACHES INC 59-2471253: $10k → 11%ADOPT-A-FAMILY OF PALM BEACHES INC 59-2471253: $10k → 11%ADOPT-A-FAMILY OF PALM BEACHES INC 59-2471253: $5k → 11%FOOD BANK FOR NYC 13-3179546: $20k → 17%NY CARES INC 13-3444193: $20k → 17%BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF NYC 13-5600383: $12k → 17%BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF NYC 13-5600383: $10k → 17%BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF NYC 13-5600383: $10k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE 13-2933654: $55k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE 13-2933654: $50k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE 13-2933654: $33k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE 13-2933654: $27k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE 13-2933654: $21k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE 13-2933654: $18k → 17%JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSN INC 13-1624148: $9k → 17%JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSN INC 13-1624148: $7k → 17%JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSN INC 13-1624148: $5k → 17%JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSN INC 13-1624148: $5k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE 13-2933654: $5k → 17%JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSN INC 13-1624148: $4k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE 13-2725416: $10k → 17%SHARE SELF HELP FOR WOMEN 13-3131914: $5k → 17%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

WA
MN
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
DC
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$605k · 16 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
19

Total granted

$605k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+48%

Still filing today

19%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyScience & TechAnimalsOther
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

  • LM
    LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $154k · revenue +8%
  • SF
    SPORTSMEN FOR CHARITY
    2× · 2019–2023 · $8k · revenue +25%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • SF
    ST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES 80-0458866
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • DR
    DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -1%
  • OA
    OASIS A HAVEN FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN 22-3491573
    one grant, 2020 · $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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE 13-2933654: $208,300 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE 13-2933654COURAGE AND SACRIFICE 46-5536167: $32,700 · OtherCOURAGE AND SACRIFICE 46-5536167BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF NYC 13-5600383: $32,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF NYC 13-5600383JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSN INC 13-1624148: $30,000 · OtherJAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSN INC 13-1624148MAYO CLINIC 41-6011702: $30,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC 41-6011702ADOPT-A-FAMILY OF PALM BEACHES INC 59-2471253: $25,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NYC 13-3179546: $22,500 · OtherNY CARES INC 13-3444193: $22,500 · OtherTHE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY 13-5644916: $20,000 · Other+30 more: $124,500 · Other+30 moreLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $153,650 · Science & TechLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE C…Humane World for Animals Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsSPORTSMEN FOR CHARITY: $7,500 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOURAGE & SACRIFICE INC: $350 · PhilanthropyDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 · Health
Other$547,500Science & Tech$153,650Animals$10,000Philanthropy$8,850Health$7,000

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 budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $153,650 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPORTSMEN FOR CHARITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGE & SACRIFICE INC: $350 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.

  • Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPORTSMEN FOR CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Scott M Panzer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scott M Panzer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–5%
    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 46 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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