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William Beecher Scoville Foundation Inc at a glance

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William Beecher Scoville Foundation Inc

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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$104kEducation$58kArts & Culture$12kInternational$11kPublic Benefit$2k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
World Federations of Neurosurgical$5,000
Lewy Body Dementian Association$5,000
UConn Foundation$4,000
American School for the Deaf$2,000
Weill Cornell Medical College$2,000
Research to Prevent Blindness$2,000
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center$1,500
Yale School of Medicine$1,000
Doctors Without Borders$500
Partners in Health$500
Hartford Hospital$500
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.

US giving: 76% of grant dollars ($141k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 24% that went abroad ($45k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $2k → 17%HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER: $2k → 11%UConn Foundation: $4k → 11%Lewy Body Dementian Association: $5k → 9%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $2k → 17%Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONN FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%Lewy Body Dementian Association: $5k → 9%RESEARCH TO PREVENT BINDNESS: $2k → 17%HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONN FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%Lewy Body Dementian Association: $5k → 9%HARRIET BEECHER STOWE HOUSE: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONN FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONN FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER: $2k → 11%UConn Foundation: $4k → 11%HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONN FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATIO: $4k → 11%Weill Cornell Medical College: $2k → 17%Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: $2k → 11%UConn Foundation: $4k → 11%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $2k → 17%AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $2k → 11%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $2k → 17%American School for the Deaf: $2k → 11%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $2k → 17%AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $2k → 11%Weill Cornell Medical College: $2k → 17%AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $2k → 11%WEILL CORNELL-MISSION IN TANZANIA: $2k → 17%American School for the Deaf: $2k → 11%Weill Cornell Medical College: $2k → 17%American School for the Deaf: $2k → 11%RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $2k → 17%AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $2k → 11%Research to Prevent Blindness: $2k → 17%AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $2k → 11%Research to Prevent Blindness: $2k → 17%AMERICAN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $2k → 11%RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $2k → 17%RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $2k → 17%Research to Prevent Blindness: $2k → 17%RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $2k → 17%RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $2k → 17%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.

Beyond the US: 24% of all-years giving ($45k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Switzerland$35k · 7 grants
Czechia$10k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$168k · 13 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
4

Total granted

$168k
$11k

Still filing today

62%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationInternationalOther
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

  • AS
    AMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAF
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +38%
  • RT
    RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +27%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • WF
    WORLD FEDERATION OF NEUROSURGICAL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL-MISSION IN TANZANIA
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • RT
    RESEARCH TO PREVENT BINDNESS
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
3
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
4
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
5
The Hospital of Central Connecticut

The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
6
The William W Backus Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
7
Hartford HealthCare Corporation

Hartford HealthCare's mission is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities it serves.

Health
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD FED OF NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETIE: $25,000 · OtherWORLD FED OF NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETIEUNIVERSITY OF CONN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONN FOUNDATIONWorld Federations of Neurosurgical: $15,000 · OtherWorld Federations of NeurosurgicalHARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER INC: $12,000 · OtherHARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER INCWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $10,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINEWeill Cornell Medical College: $6,000 · OtherWeill Cornell Medical CollegeWORLD FEDERATION OF NEUROSURGICAL: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $5,500 · Other+3 moreAMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAF: $18,000 · EducationAMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFO…THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECT…Yale University: $8,000 · EducationYale UniversityRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $17,000 · HealthRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLIN…Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthLewy Body Dementia Assoc…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NON…Hartford Hospital: $4,500 · HealthHartford HospitalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,500 · International
Other$98,500Education$42,000Health$41,000International$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAF: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $17,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER INC: $12,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYale University: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Hospital: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% 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 AMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William Beecher Scoville Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Beecher Scoville Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • American School at Hartford for the Deaf: 32% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
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 18 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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