· Private foundation
The William C and Cindy L Scott 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PROMONTORY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT | $5,300 |
| PEOPLE CARE INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| UTAH GOLF FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SKYDOG RANCH AND SANCTUARY | $2,500 |
| CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS | $2,500 |
| DAVID SIMON FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE SAVING GRACIE EQUINE HEALING FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of The William C and Cindy L Scott Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 60% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 42%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +58%
- MRMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +7%
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- CFCUREFA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +35%
- 2E2 EST 62ND STREET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MOMETROPOLITAN OPERAone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
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.
The conservancy preserves and revitalizes new york's architecture. by doing so, it contributes to new york's economy, tourism and quality of life.
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds CUREFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds PROMONTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE CARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Cancer Association ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER 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.
Open a dossier: The Willinphila Foundation · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · The Fairfield Foundation · The Sooner Foundation · The McCance Foundation · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Jeanann Gray Dunlap Foundation · The Duke of Omnium Fund · The Long Stems Foundation Inc · Valley Charitable Trust · Fleetwood Foundation · W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The William C and Cindy L Scott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William C and Cindy L Scott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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