· Private foundation
The Tom and Susan Scholl Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTINSBURG UNION RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| ISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING | $3,000 |
| STOP PREDATORY GAMBLING FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| EPWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| EAGLE LIGHT CARETAKERS | $1,300 |
| MAINE SEACOAST MISSION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MUMARTINSBURG UNION RESCUE MISSION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue +14%
- IWISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING3× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +172%
- HPHOPE PREGNANCY CENTER DBA HOPE CENTER3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- ICISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +28%
- SASHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +177%
- RBREADY BY 21 MENTORINGone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To support individuals and families to find help and healing with the challenging problem of addiction.
Island housing trust promotes viable, year-round island communities by advancing permanent workforce housing on mount desert island, maine.
The mission of Islesboro Affordable Property (IAP) is to help in the maintenance and growth of Islesboro as a vital and successful year-round community. Our program, to carry out that mission, is to do all we can to insure that good…
To own and lease land for the purpose of developing, building and maintaining affordable housing on martha's vineyard, massachusetts.
Healthy peninsula mobilizes, supports and collaborates with community partners to improve the health of the towns of the blue hill peninsula, deer isle and stonington.
Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.
Island Health Care's mission is to ensure all islanders, regardless of income or insurance status, have access to high-quality health care. Island Health Care Provides community-based health safety net services and programs to provide…
To provide quality affordable housing
Improve the living conditions of local, San Juan County families and help provide housing for people at or below 80% of the county median income by coordinating and providing technical and supervisory assistance during home construction in…
Operation of a residential care facility for the benefit of elderly residents of the islands of casco bay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Seacoast Mission and the most unlike its peers is Island Workforce Housing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MARTINSBURG UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEALTH & WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND WORKFORCE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER DBA HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds STOP PREDATORY GAMBLING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds READY BY 21 MENTORING ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Tom and Susan Scholl Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
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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