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The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation at a glance

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The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$673k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.9MHuman Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$606kHealth$550kReligion$405kYouth Development$330kArts & Culture$325kFood & Nutrition$320kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $208k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $465k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOL$90,000
SALVATION ARMY$75,000
ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL$50,000
ST JOSEPH'S VILLA$50,000
DAILY PLANET$50,000
CROSS OVER HEALTH MINISTRY$50,000
FEED MORE$50,000
VERITAS 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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BACKPACKS OF LOVE INC: $10k → 6%UMFS: $40k → 9%RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FDN: $15k → 22%THE LIGHTHOUSE RVA: $5k → 6%HOMEWARD: $25k → 7%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $15k → 9%HOMEWARD: $15k → 7%RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $5k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $75k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $50k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $50k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $45k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $35k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 22%SAFE HARBOR: $25k → 22%SAFE HARBOUR: $25k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 22%NEXTUP RVA: $15k → 22%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $25k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $25k → 22%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 93%.

The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 36 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
104

Total granted

$3.1M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+23%

Still filing today

69%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • AJ
    ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $200k · revenue +469%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH'S VILLA
    2× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +27%
  • SJ
    ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER
    3× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • UH
    URBAN HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • JR
    JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -40%
  • EH
    ELIJAH HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Good Shepherd Episcopal School

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…

Education
2
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
3
Academy of Richmond County
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4
Richmond County Partnership for Children Inc

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…

Education
5
Richmond Residential Services Inc

Richmond residential services strives to provide person-centered care for individuals with diverse abilities and support needs, facilitating choice, growth and community participation

Human Services
6
Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc

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…

Education
7
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
8
Richmond Friends School Inc

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

Education
9
New Schools for Virginia

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.

Education
10
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
11
Rise Richmond Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
12
SeniorNavigatorcom

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,…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities; 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.
05the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 148 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
53/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOL: $245,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH SCHOOLEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF VA: $233,500 · OtherEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF VA+102 more: $3,528,550 · Other+102 moreANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationANNA JULIA COO…ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $120,000 · EducationST JAMES'S CHI…ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationST CHRISTOPHER…NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $75,000 · EducationNORTHSTAR ACAD…RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $70,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE SCHO…St Andrew's School: $60,000 · EducationSt Andrew's Sc…Grace Christian School Inc: $50,000 · EducationGrace Christia…The Petersburg Library Foundation Inc: $50,000 · EducationThe Petersburg…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $35,000 · Education+2 more: $43,000 · Education+2 moreST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $125,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'…SHALOM FARMSINC: $80,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM FAR…FAMILY LIFELINE: $50,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LIF…SAFE HARBOR: $50,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBO…YWCA RICHMOND: $50,000 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHM…Jewish Family Services Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesJewish Fam…RICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesRICHMOND F…United Methodist Family Services of Virginia: $40,000 · Human ServicesUnited Met…HOMEWARD: $40,000 · Human ServicesHOMEWARDCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $20,000 · Human Services+5 more: $50,100 · Human Services+5 moreEmergency Shelter Inc: $115,677 · Housing & ShelterURBAN HOPE INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterBETTER HOUSING COALITION: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK OUTREACH CENTER: $80,000 · ReligionRICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED: $70,000 · ReligionMechanics of Faith: $30,000 · ReligionChildren's Museum of Richmond: $30,000 · Arts & CultureART 180 Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSTRATFORD HALL: $25,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC: $15,000 · Environment
Other$4,007,050Education$803,000Human Services$590,100Housing & Shelter$365,677Religion$180,000Arts & Culture$165,000Environment$115,000

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 budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $200,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $120,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetEmergency Shelter Inc: $115,677 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSOAR 365: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN HOPE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCARITAS: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC: $80,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK OUTREACH CENTER: $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBLUE SKY FUND: $75,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED: $70,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND: $50,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY LIFELINE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGATEWAY HOMES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAILY PLANET INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSAFE HARBOR: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGrace Christian School Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSupportWorks Housing: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Petersburg Library Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetJewish Family Services Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH RICHMOND ADULT DAY CARE CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetRICHMOND FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetReWork Richmond Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetUnited Methodist Family Services of Virginia: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHOMEWARD: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetChildren's Museum of Richmond: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMechanics of Faith: $30,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCANCER RETREAT CENTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetART 180 Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF POWHATAN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSeven Hills School: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 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 SOAR 365 ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URBAN HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
  • Who funds CHESTERFIELD FOOD BANK OUTREACH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE SKY FUND ↗
  • Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds DAILY PLANET INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Mary Morton Parso…The Pauley Family Fou…Herndon FoundationRobert G Cabell III a…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Robins FoundationRichmond Memorial Hea…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Dominion Energy Chari…Altria Companies Empl…
The Community Foundation IncVA101.3× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to The William H - John G - Emma Scott 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.

    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 148 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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