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The Scottsdale Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$65k
Granted FY2018
7
Grants FY2018
7
Organizations funded FY2018
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88% of The Scottsdale Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Pasadena Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Scottsdale Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $65k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’18
5
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$28,350
States reached, FY2018
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Philanthropy$1.4MHealth$111kArts & Culture$79kRecreation & Sports$25kEducation$20kCommunity Improvement$15kYouth Development$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Scottsdale Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVilla Esperanza Services: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMuseIque: $53,350 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHenry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJericho Road Pasadena Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetThe Chandler School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHigher Ground Youth and Family Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOld Mill Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHuntington Medical Research Institutes: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Pasadena Community FoundationCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Otis Booth Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About The Scottsdale Foundation

How much does The Scottsdale Foundation give?
The Scottsdale Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $65,350 in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does The Scottsdale Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (85%), Health (7%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are The Scottsdale Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Villa Esperanza Services ($100k), MuseIque ($53k), Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery ($25k).
Does The Scottsdale Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Scottsdale Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pasadena Community Foundation, The Otis Booth Foundation, The Rose Hills Foundation.
Where is The Scottsdale Foundation based?
The Scottsdale Foundation is based in CA.

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 12 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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