· Private foundation
Walter Scott Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $431k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEAST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $240,000 |
| WALLACE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $77,000 |
| TOWN OF REHOBETH FIRE & RESCUE | $64,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NAVARRE BEACH SEA TURTLE CONSERVATI | $10,000 |
| WIREGRASS PET RESCUE & ADOPTION CEN | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +31%
- DHDONALSONVILLE HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $575k · revenue +47%
- CRCHEYENNE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- ACALABAMA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -6%- SJST JOSEPH COLLEGE OF MAINEone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Coordinate and deliver patient care in a group practice setting within the academic environment of the university of alabama at birmingham.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The educational trust operates exclusively for the benefit of, and to carry out the purposes of, the university of south carolina school of medicine and the greater university of south carolina. its main purposes are to augment and aid…
How this is measured
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 22 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 THE SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONALSONVILLE HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE WIREGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Alabama Kiwanis Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVARRE BEACH SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walter Scott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter Scott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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