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The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
256
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$6.3MEducation$2.8MYouth Development$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MScience & Tech$1.0MPhilanthropy$782kEnvironment$482kRecreation & Sports$460kAnimals$428kOther$3.2M
02FY2025 · 256 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k121 grants · $308k
  • $10k–50k116 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC$200,000
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INC$80,000
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC$80,000
BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY$75,000
THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL$75,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$60,000
HARTFORD PROMISE$60,000
LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS PARTNERSHIP INC$60,000
THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC$60,000
SCRIPPS HOWARD FUND$53,500
THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE$50,000
POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED$50,000
ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT$50,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS$50,000
FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC$50,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $50k → 9%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $5k → 16%LISTEN - LEBANON IN SERVICE TO EACH NEIGHBOR: $5k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $50k → 9%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $5k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $50k → 9%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $5k → 16%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 9%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $50k → 9%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $5k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $50k → 9%FROST VALLEY YMCA: $5k → 16%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7k → 9%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $10k → 11%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $10k → 11%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $10k → 11%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $10k → 11%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $10k → 11%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%HISPANIC ALLIANCE OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT: $7k → 9%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%HISPANIC ALLIANCE OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT: $7k → 9%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%HISPANIC ALLIANCE OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT: $7k → 9%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%HISPANIC ALLIANCE OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT: $7k → 9%THE HISPANIC ALLIANCE OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $5k → 9%HISPANIC ALLIANCE OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT: $5k → 9%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $50k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $35k → 17%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $10k → 9%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $35k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $35k → 17%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $10k → 9%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $35k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $35k → 17%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $5k → 9%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $35k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $25k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $25k → 17%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $75k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $75k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $70k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $70k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $70k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $50k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Artslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 185 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

185 repeat relationships — 166 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

185
20

Total granted

$16M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+32%

Still filing today

76%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $501k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $740k · revenue +14%
  • HS
    HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $464k · revenue +75%
  • BO
    BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP
    6× · 2020–2025 · $420k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
  • JF
    JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • DK
    Day Kimball Healthcare Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +17%

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Cold Spring School Inc

Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.

Education
3
Stamford Charter School for Excellence

The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…

Education
4
The Bridge Academy Inc

The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…

Education
5
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
6
Connecticut College

Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.

Education
7
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
8
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
9
The Children's School

An independent, nonprofit school serving the lower fairfield county area of connecticut for children ages three to eight, and providing an environment that fosters in children the joy of learning through the use of innovative materials and…

Education
10
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
11
The Charles River School Inc

A pre-kindergarten through grade 8 independent school committed to academic excellence and the joy of childhood, fostering intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and the development of the whole child.

Education
12
The Town School Inc

The town school is committed to elementary coeducation, serving students in nursery through eighth grade. as we embrace high academic and ethical standards for each student, we are guided by our school motto, let there be joy in learning.…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oliver Scholars Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodstock Region Journalism Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%4%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr20%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr20%41%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/194
the rest of the field
10%
2,154/22,251

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

189 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 189 of the 248 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
188/189
Grantees still filing
126/189
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $740,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INCHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC — $464,000 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INCCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC — $391,500 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INCGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $376,000 · Arts & CultureGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INCNew York Historical Society — $330,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $325,310 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WILL INC — $290,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $275,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS — $250,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $217,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERING AMISTAD INC — $215,000 · Arts & Culture+46 more — $2,437,110 · Arts & Culture+46 moreLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC — $250,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP EDUCAT…READ TO GROW INC — $245,000 · EducationREAD TO GROW INCTeach for America Inc — $195,000 · EducationTeach for America…REACH OUT AND READ INC — $175,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND REA…THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $150,000 · EducationTHE FOOTE SCHOOL …POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $150,000 · EducationPOMFRET SCHOOL IN…HOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EducationHOUSATONIC COMMUN…HARTFORD PROMISE INC — $120,000 · EducationSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $110,000 · Education+30 more — $1,263,650 · Education+30 moreTalladega College — $1,075,240 · OtherTalladega CollegeHORIZONS BRIDGEPORT — $400,000 · OtherHORIZONS BRIDGEPORTSOUNDWATERS INC — $300,000 · OtherSOUNDWATERS INCNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC — $259,250 · OtherNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILIN…SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $407,875 · OtherSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC — $292,000 · OtherCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYCTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC — $150,000 · Other+63 more — $1,567,359 · Other+63 moreHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC — $715,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECT US INC — $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS NEW YORK CITY — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHOMPSON ECUMENICAL EMPOWERMENT GROUP INC — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUTURE 5 INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC — $40,000 · Youth Development+3 more — $49,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $420,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC — $310,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC — $50,000 · Human Services+6 more — $145,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC — $1,000,000 · Science & TechInterdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology — $44,000 · Science & TechKLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC — $281,300 · PhilanthropyScripps Howard Fund — $137,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $80,000 · PhilanthropyMONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC — $65,000 · PhilanthropyHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING — $60,000 · PhilanthropyBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON INC — $30,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $73,500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$6,310,920Education$2,808,650Other$4,451,724Youth Development$1,189,000Human Services$1,175,000Science & Tech$1,044,000Philanthropy$776,800

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTalladega College — $1,075,240 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $740,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC — $715,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC — $464,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $420,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $407,875 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHORIZONS BRIDGEPORT — $400,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC — $391,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $376,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $330,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $325,310 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC — $310,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSOUNDWATERS INC — $300,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC — $292,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC — $290,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetKLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC — $281,300 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $275,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC — $259,250 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS — $250,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC — $250,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC — $245,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $217,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDISCOVERING AMISTAD INC — $215,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetOpening Act Inc — $210,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC — $200,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $195,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECT US INC — $180,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $175,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT STORYTELLING CENTER INC — $170,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT — $170,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART — $150,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLUTZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $142,236 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetScripps Howard Fund — $137,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — $127,451 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetHARTFORD PROMISE INC — $120,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $115,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $110,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHORIZONS NEW YORK CITY — $100,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetTHE RECTORY SCHOOL INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc — $90,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetNew Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated — $82,650 over 7y, 5.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Talladega College ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
  • Who funds SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS BRIDGEPORT ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
  • Who funds KLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
  • Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERING AMISTAD INC ↗
  • Who funds Opening Act Inc ↗
  • Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONNECT US INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT STORYTELLING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTZ CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Scripps Howard Fund ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…Peoples United Commun…Connecticut Humanitie…William Caspar Graust…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Newalliance Foundatio…New Canaan Community …Newman's Own Foundati…The Community Foundat…Liberty Bank Foundati…Sbm Charitable Founda…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT81.5× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organization The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 370%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Mill River Collaborative Inc — 100% of income from government
  • The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Project Hope of Eastern Connecticut — 100% of income from government
  • Connecticut Humanities Council Inc — 96% of income from government
  • City Seed Inc — 87% of income from government
  • Access Agency Inc — 79% of income from government
  • Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology — 47% of income from government
  • Clicc Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Vermont Afterschool Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
  • Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
  • The Artists Collective Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
  • Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group Inc — 24% of income from government
  • The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Connecticut Childrens Museum Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc — 17% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 15% of income from government
  • Lutz Children's Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Discovery Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Green Village Initiative Inc — 14% of income from government
  • 100 Black Men of Stamford Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
  • Project Music Inc — 14% of income from government
  • New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Interdistrict Committee for Project Oceanology — 11% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Higher Edge Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Hispanic Alliance of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Montshire Museum of Science Inc — 4% of income from government
  • New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated — 4% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
  • New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Mcgivney Community Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Art Space Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
  • The Rectory School Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Day Kimball Healthcare Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
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37get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 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.

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How do I get to The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts?

Find your warmest path to The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 248 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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