How much did The Scripps Howard Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of The Scripps Howard Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

—

2020

see attachment

2021

—

2022

awards paymentvolunteermarketjournalism internshipinternship stipendgcf smallceo

2023

volunteermarketawards prizegcf smallgcf largecincinnaticeo budget

2024

volunteerprize checkimpact campagincampagin arsfarsf dollarsmarkethonor shja

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 749 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k668 grants · $911k
$10k–50k63 grants · $1.0M
$50k–250k10 grants · $895k
$250k+8 grants · $4.5M

$1,250

Median grant

States reached

$75M

Total assets

Largest grants

International Center for Journalists Inc$675,706
University of Colorado Foundation$628,317
International Center for Journalists Inc$560,527
University of Southern Mississippi$554,454
Arizona State University Foundation$545,000
University of Maryland College Park Fdtn$513,475
Arizona State University Foundation$500,000
University of Maryland College Park Fdtn$500,000
University of Maryland College Park Fdtn$168,000
University of Maryland College Park Fdtn$122,000
Scripps Howard Fund$100,000
University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Jo$100,000
University of Southern California$100,000
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York$85,000
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts$60,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $484k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$37M · 418 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

418 repeat relationships — 329 still active in FY2024, 89 since wound down; 309 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

418

646

Total granted

$37M

$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+49%

Still filing today

52%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

UO
University of Colorado Foundation
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +40%
Elon University
2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +33%
SM
Santa Maria Community Services
3× · 2022–2024 · $134k · revenue +26%

Funded once

SA
SEE ATTACHMENT 32
one grant, 2021 · $6.0M
UO
University of Maryland at College Park
one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
UO
University of Maryland at College Park - Remit-To 4603 Calvert Road
one grant, 2023 · $543k

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.

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International

Cincinnati Bar Association

To promote professional excellence, foster justice, serve our members & educate the public.

—

Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit

OneJustice

Strengthen the legal services sector's expertise and capacity to advance justice and equity.

—

Goodwill Industries of

Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.

—

Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health

Free Press

Free press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. free press conducts research on how the current media system influences the development of public policy and educates the public and policy-makers on how a…

Arts & Culture

Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media Inc

Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.

Arts & Culture

University Radio Foundation Inc

Journalism that informs, enriches, and inspires. our vision is to help create a more knowledgeable and engaged community grounded in our shared humanity.

Arts & Culture

United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc

Uwgn unites the community and mobilizes resources so that every child, individual & family thrives

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sanderson Museum and Village. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%3/694

the rest of the field

6,872/73,612

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

600 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

196

Early backer (in before they grew)

587/600

Grantees still filing

474/600

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$40,824,096International$2,650,657Education$2,557,473Philanthropy$541,626Human Services$520,127Arts & Culture$398,208Food & Nutrition$241,329

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

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.

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.

Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile JrOH73.5× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Millstone Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Hcs Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Horizon Community Funds of Northern · L & L Nippert 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 organisation The Scripps Howard Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: International Center for Journalists Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 112724905 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on International Center for Journalists Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Scripps Howard Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Scripps Howard Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Scripps Howard Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

600 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Scripps Howard Foundation?

More from the funding graph

The Scripps Howard Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

600 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Scripps Howard Foundation?

More from the funding graph