Kentucky · Nonprofit
SCATTER JOY INC
SCATTER JOY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,564 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($28,564). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Scatter Joy Inc does
Mission
Scatterjoy was established to provide people who are under-resourced financially, emotionally, spiritually, or relationally with food, clothing and shelter and other assistance, all from a christian perspective but without regard to the religious beliefs of those served.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Sponsering the cost of a habitat home (meals, water, ice, and incidentals for construction)
$46,035 spent38% of program spendingInternational children/missions food needs (meal packing, shipping, volunteer and packing expenses)
$36,912 spent30% of program spendingSupport for special events hosted by ministries (awards & dinner for jail ministry, christmas for children of inmates, and events for sayre christian village)
$11,160 spent9% of program spendingSupport for families in jessamine county, ky - food, rent, clothing, utilities, car repair, utilities, lodging
$10,352 spent8% of program spendingSupport for jessamine co. Ky for the homebound, sick, bereaved, elderly - meals and encouragement.
$10,423 spent9% of program spendingAssistance within kentucky for displaced families and children, some from natural disasters - clothing, cleaning, household items, non-perishable food.
$7,348 spent6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $122,230.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $34k to $20k (−42%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of SCATTER JOY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $6k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SCATTER JOY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SCATTER JOY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SCATTER JOY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of SCATTER JOY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SCATTER JOY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SCATTER JOY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCATTER JOY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SCATTER JOY INC?
- SCATTER JOY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,564 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($28,564). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCATTER JOY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $29,564 in grants to SCATTER JOY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCATTER JOY INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $28,564 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCATTER JOY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing