How much does The Scriven Foundation give?

The Scriven Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $2,052,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Scriven Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (71%), Employment (13%), Arts & Culture (4%).

Who are The Scriven Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital ($79M), Fenimore Art Museum ($1.7M), Otsego Land Trust ($1.5M).

Does The Scriven Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is The Scriven Foundation based?

The Scriven Foundation is based in NY.

The Scriven Foundation

The Scriven Foundation at a glance

· Public charity

The Scriven Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as The Scriven Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Allstadt Hardin Foundation, The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc, Community Foundation of Otsego County Inc.

To support mary imogene bassett hospital, and other charitable entities in otsego county, new york.

$2.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$300k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$68MEmployment$12MArts & Culture$4.1MEnvironment$3.5MHuman Services$1.5MAnimals$1.4MReligion$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.1MOther$0

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $17k
$10k–50k15 grants · $325k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$44,500

Median grant

States reached

$249M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SPRINGBROOK	$300,000
FENIMORE ART MUSEUM	$215,000
OTSEGO LAND TRUST INC	$200,000
OTSEGO COUNTY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION	$175,000
SUSQUEHANNA SPCA	$150,000
CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC	$105,000
OTSEGO 2000	$95,000
LEAF INC	$80,000
HYDE HALL INC	$80,000
CATSKILL AREA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC (DBA HELIOS CARE)	$75,000
NEW YORK COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS INC	$60,000
COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC	$60,000
COOPERSTOWN ART ASSOCIATION	$60,000
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF COOPERSTOWN	$52,000
THE FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF ONEONTA NY INC	$45,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$95M · 47 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$95M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

-28%

Still filing today

53%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

TM
The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
5× · 2018–2023 · $79M · revenue +40%
FA
FENIMORE ART MUSEUM
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +193%
OC
OTSEGO COUNTY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +102% · 55% of their budget

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $331k
PV
PATHFINDER VILLAGE INC
one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +11%
WF
WORCESTER FREE LIBRARY
one grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue -65% · 25% of their budget

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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition

The Central New York Land Trust Inc

The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.

Environment

Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health

Central Adirondack Partnership for the 21ST Century Inc

Forum for community concerns

Community Improvement

Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition

Orange County Land Trust Inc

The mission of the orange county land trust is to preserve water resources, critical habitat, rural and urban farmland, scenic viewsheds and ecosystems in and around orange county for the benefit of all who depend on them.

Environment

Oswego County Opportunities Inc

To inspire partnerships and provide services that empower people, support communities and change lives.

Human Services

Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment

Genesee Valley Conservancy Inc

Protection of important natural resources, open space, habitat and agricultural lands in the Genesee River watershed through the use of land acquisition and conservation easements. Continued on Schedule O. Provide planning services to…

Environment

Genesee Land Trust Inc

Genesee Land Trust preserves and protects natural lands and waterways that enhance the quality of life in the Greater Rochester region - providing wildlife habitat, locally grown food, and connections to nature.

Environment

Newburgh Community Land Bank

Established for the purpose of stimulating planning, economic development, and neighborhood revitalization in the city of newburgh, new york.

Community Improvement

Cny Arts Inc

CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Otsego 2000 Inc; the most unlike its peers is Worcester Free Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 66 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/33

Grantees still filing

21/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$79,335,984Other$6,228,184Arts & Culture$4,100,018Environment$2,839,800Human Services$2,090,000Community Improvement$825,000Animals$510,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

Allstadt Hardin FoundationNY30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Allstadt Hardin Foundation · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Community Foundation of Otsego County Inc · C J Heilig Foundation Inc · Dewar Foundation Inc · The Nycm Foundation · A Lindsay & Olive B O'Connor Foundation Inc · Willies Family Foundation · The James and Stephanie Patrick Fam · Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation · Alice Busch Gronewaldt Foundation Inc · The Patricia M & H William Smith Jr 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to The Scriven Foundation 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.

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The regranting layer

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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