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The Scully Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Scully Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$728k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$272k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.3MEducation$827kCivil Rights$102kHuman Services$60kEnvironment$60kHealth$58kReligion$31kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $406k
  • $250k+1 grant · $272k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$138k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$272,000
ST PAUL'S CHOIR SCHOOL$190,500
ABBOT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$100,000
MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY AND EDUCATION CENTER$65,000
THE HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY$50,000
THE EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY$10,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
NORTH COUNTRY CHAMBER PLAYERS$10,000
CAMBRIDGE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
SUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA$1,000
ST PAUL PARISH$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CARROLL SCHOOL$500
02The need
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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 (FY19–21, $1k) 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.

area typical 9%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $500 → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $250 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 46 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
46

Total granted

$2.2M
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+7%

Still filing today

52%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HA
    HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $866k · revenue +36%
  • MC
    MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $177k · revenue +18%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • MF
    MGH FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
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
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
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
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Conservatory of Music; the most unlike its peers is The Institute for American Indian Studies. 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

48 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. 48 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
35/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAULS CHOIR SCHOOL: $446,300 · OtherST PAULS CHOIR SCHOOLMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $359,500 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER: $177,300 · OtherMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $57,000 · Other+67 more: $188,151 · Other+67 moreHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY: $866,000 · Arts & CultureHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETYBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $64,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC+7 more: $24,750 · Arts & CultureABBOT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $7,300 · EducationTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $6,000 · Education+7 more: $6,200 · EducationEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $56,150 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,550 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $1,400 · Recreation & SportsMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $6,125 · HealthPATHWAYS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $750 · HealthCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentDARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC: $500 · EnvironmentTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $750 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$1,328,251Arts & Culture$954,750Education$139,500Recreation & Sports$60,100Health$6,875Environment$3,500Human Services$1,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY: $866,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER: $177,300 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetABBOT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $64,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $57,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $56,150 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY CHAMBER PLAYERSINC: $19,250 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $7,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $6,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSARASA INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUGAR HILL HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $1,450 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFranconia Ski Club: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA CAMBRIDGE INC formally Cambridge Chamber Ensemble Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBELMONT LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD EDUCATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LIBERTY AND AMERICAN GREATNESS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ABBOT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY CHAMBER PLAYERSINC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Boca Grande Preschool Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SARASA INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncThe Joanne E Masin Fo…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Fidelity FoundationAmerican Tower Corpor…New Hampshire Charita…Citizens Charitable F…Ia Lenoir Charitable …Alvord Family Foundat…Amica Companies Found…Catholic Schools Foun…Middlecott Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA19× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · Alvord Family Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Catholic Schools Foundation Inc · Middlecott 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 Scully Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scully Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc: 40% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Sarasa Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 102 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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