Ohio · Private foundation
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $72,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $215,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 25
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $398k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $1.7M | 14% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $1.5M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $2.6M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $2.2M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restore America's Estuaries | $860,000 | 5 | 5% |
| The Hagedorn Legacy Foundation | $775,874 | 1 | n/a |
| Alliance for Water Efficiency | $650,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc | $600,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Marijuana Policy Project Foundation | $500,000 | 2 | 23% |
| National Head Start Association | $470,000 | 5 | 1% |
| National Recreation and Park Association | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Everglades Foundation Inc | $450,000 | 2 | 1% |
| National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alliance for the Great Lakes | $300,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation
- How much does The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation give?
- The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $1,969,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (34%), Philanthropy (12%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Restore America's Estuaries ($860k), The Hagedorn Legacy Foundation ($776k), Alliance for Water Efficiency ($650k).
- Does The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation based?
- The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation is based in OH.
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