· Private foundation
The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE WILLIAM H - JOHN G - EMMA SCOTT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $465k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOL | $90,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $75,000 |
| CROSS OVER HEALTH MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S VILLA | $50,000 |
| DAILY PLANET | $50,000 |
| FEED MORE | $50,000 |
| VERITAS SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MECHANICS OF FAITH | $30,000 |
| BOYS TO MEN | $25,000 |
| SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FAMILY LIFELINE | $25,000 |
| SACRED HEART CENTER | $25,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $590k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of those 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 8 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k 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
- AJANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL4× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +469%
- SJST JOSEPH'S VILLA2× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +27%
- SJST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER3× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- UHURBAN HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +26%
- JRJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -40%
- HFHOUSING FAMILIES FIRSTone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +24%
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.
The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…
Richmond residential services strives to provide person-centered care for individuals with diverse abilities and support needs, facilitating choice, growth and community participation
Cristo Rey Richmond High School is a Catholic learning community that educates young people of limited economic means to become men and women of faith, purpose and service. Through a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, integrated with…
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
Committed to providing a quality educational experience for each child, creating an environment that nurtures individual intellectual, emotional, creative, spiritual, and physical gifts within a community
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
Rise richmond's mission is to cultivate the god-given potential of students in richmond's east end through learning opportunities that equip them to flourish.
SeniorNavigator and its family of websites are national models for aging, disability and veteran information. By combining online assistance with a network of community-based centers, the websites bring over 26,000 community resources,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Seven Hills School. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
73 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. 73 of the 148 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 ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Emergency Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR 365 ↗
- Who funds CHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKY FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds DAILY PLANET INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Grace Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Robins Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Altria Companies Employee Community Fund
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 William H - John G - Emma Scott 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.
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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