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Thomas a Scott Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Thomas a Scott Charitable 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.

$159k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$425kHuman Services$389kYouth Development$120kFood & Nutrition$69kReligion$68kHealth$60kArts & Culture$30kCrime & Legal$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$38k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
ST ANASTASIA SCHOOL$15,000
JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
LIFE BUILDERS$10,000
CARE NET$10,000
FRONTLINE FOR KIDS$10,000
GUARDIANS FOR NEW FUTURES$10,000
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$10,000
FAITH FARMS$10,000
SAFESPACE$10,000
GRACEWAY VILLAGE$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH$10,000
GRACE PACKS$5,000
MUSTARD SEED$4,000
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 (FY18–24, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%SAFESPACE: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH: $10k → 11%SAFESPACE: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH: $10k → 11%SAFESPACE: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH: $10k → 11%SAFESPACE: $10k → 10%SAFESPACE: $10k → 10%SAFESPACE: $10k → 10%SAFESPACE: $4k → 10%GRACEWAY VILLAGE: $10k → 13%GRACEWAY VILLAGE: $10k → 13%GRACEWAY VILLAGE: $10k → 13%GRACEWAY VILLAGE: $10k → 13%GRACEWAY VILLAGE: $10k → 13%GRACEWAY VILLAGE: $10k → 13%GRACEWAY VILLAGE: $4k → 13%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 22 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
3

Total granted

$1.2M
$30k

Still filing today

45%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • IR
    INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +226%
  • GF
    GUARDIANS FOR NEW FUTURES INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $64k · revenue +811%
  • GW
    GRACE WAY VILLAGE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $64k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • LB
    LIFE BUILDERS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • FF
    FAITH FARMS
    one grant, 2024 · $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
Family Support Center of the Uintah Basin Inc

Child respite and child abuse prevention.

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2
Grace House Ministries Inc

Counseling and benevolent assistance to new parents and their children.

Religion
3
Children's Center

Provide childcare services

Human Services
4
Guardian Angel Family Crisis Center

To provide transitional care for at risk women and children

Education
5
St Clair County Child Advocacy Center

To provide a coordinated, child focused, multi-disciplinary response to child sexual and serious physical abuse in st clair, monroe, and randolph counties.

Crime & Legal
6
Children's Village Inc

Childrens Village was established as a refuge for dependent, destitute children in need of service and care

Human Services
7
Amazing Grace Adoptions

Amazing grace adoptions is a child-placing agency, able to provide quality adoption and foster care services.

Human Services
8
The Guardian Center Inc

Provide support, safe interviewing and counseling for abused children and their families

Human Services
9
Pregnancy Care Center Inc

To provide counseling and training regarding pregnancy, child care, and other services to several hundred women each year

Health
10
Family Crisis Center

Promote safety, self-sufficiency, hope and healing to those effected by abuse.

Health
11
Kid-Care Food Program

The mission of the organization is to feed inner city children in order to bring hope to families struggling to survive.

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12
Grace House Pregnancy Resource Center Inc

Provide support and resources for women in crisis pregnancy center.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safespace Inc; the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 25 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)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ANASTASIA SCHOOL: $155,000 · OtherST ANASTASIA SCHOOLJOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL INC: $105,000 · OtherJOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL INCGUARDIANS FOR NEW FUTURES INC: $64,000 · OtherGUARDIANS FOR NEW FUTURES INCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $60,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSMUSTARD SEED: $58,000 · OtherMUSTARD SEEDCARE NET: $56,500 · OtherCARE NETLIFE BUILDERS OF TREASURE COAST: $50,000 · OtherLIFE BUILDERS OF TREASURE COASTFAITH FAMILY FARM MINISTRIES: $44,000 · OtherFAITH FAMILY FARM MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherPregnancy Care Center Inc: $40,000 · OtherWQCS RADIO READING SERVICE: $30,000 · OtherEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF THE TREASURE COASTINC: $30,000 · Other+5 more: $65,000 · Other+5 moreINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · EducationINDIAN RIVER ST…HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationHOPE RURAL SCHO…GRACE WAY VILLAGE INC: $64,000 · Human ServicesGRACE WAY VILL…SAFESPACE INC: $64,000 · Human ServicesSAFESPACE INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARI…Frontline for Kids Inc: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentFrontline …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STLUCIE COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…GRACE PACKS INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$797,500Education$165,000Human Services$158,000Youth Development$110,000Food & Nutrition$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGUARDIANS FOR NEW FUTURES INC: $64,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetGRACE WAY VILLAGE INC: $64,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSAFESPACE INC: $64,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFrontline for Kids Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STLUCIE COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPregnancy Care Center Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF THE TREASURE COASTINC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGRACE PACKS INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 3y, 7.8% 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 INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIANS FOR NEW FUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE WAY VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFESPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Frontline for Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STLUCIE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Pregnancy Care Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF THE TREASURE COASTINC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE PACKS INCORPORATED ↗

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…United Way of Martin …John's Island Communi…The John's Island Fou…The James and Robin C…Busch Family Foundati…W and H Thomas Charit…Allegany Franciscan M…Community Foundation …Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie IncFL19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · United Way of Martin County Inc · John's Island Community Service League Inc · The John's Island Foundation Inc · The James and Robin Coogan Foundation · Busch Family Foundation · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Thomas a Scott Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas a Scott Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Safespace Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Guardians for New Futures Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Hope Rural School Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Grace Way Village Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 25 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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