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Thomas W & Joan 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$90,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$36M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($380k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas W & Joan Scott Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBillings Clinic Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCarolina Day School Inc: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAntelope Butte Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetYellowstone Ice Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLeadership Wyoming: $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTongue River Valley Scholarship Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetChinook Horses: $20,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSheridan High School Booster Club: $6,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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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.

About Thomas W & Joan Scott Foundation

How much does Thomas W & Joan Scott Foundation give?
Thomas W & Joan Scott Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,615,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Thomas W & Joan Scott Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (66%), Education (33%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
Who are Thomas W & Joan Scott Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Billings Clinic Foundation ($1.0M), Carolina Day School Inc ($1.0M), Antelope Butte Foundation Inc ($250k).
Does Thomas W & Joan Scott Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Thomas W & Joan Scott Foundation based?
Thomas W & Joan Scott Foundation is based in MT.

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 13 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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