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The Scripps Howard Foundation

The Scripps Howard Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,724,998 to it, the largest being THE ANDROCLES FOUNDATION INC ($12,489,330). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$19M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$69M
8/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What The Scripps Howard Foundation does

Program

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The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($5.9M) Net assets 100 ($55M)2018 Revenue 107 ($3.4M) Expenses 85 ($5.0M) Net assets 97 ($53M)2019 Revenue 134 ($4.2M) Expenses 99 ($5.8M) Net assets 94 ($52M)2020 Revenue 330 ($10M) Expenses 155 ($9.1M) Net assets 96 ($53M)2021 Revenue 384 ($12M) Expenses 144 ($8.5M) Net assets 102 ($56M)2022 Revenue 347 ($11M) Expenses 165 ($9.7M) Net assets 104 ($58M)2023 Revenue 380 ($12M) Expenses 162 ($9.5M) Net assets 109 ($60M)2024 Revenue 622 ($19M) Expenses 175 ($10M) Net assets 126 ($69M)
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Revenue (622)Expenses (175)Net assets (126)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $60M to $69M (+16%).

$56M
$54M
$52M
$54M
$57M
$59M
$60M
$69M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20172018201920202021
Listed33191918
Joined·+1+16+2+1
No longer listed·1022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $51k → $4.2M.

1 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 The Scripps Howard Foundation’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

The Scripps Howard Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 69% · 2019 87% · 2020 58% · 2021 95% · 2022 93% · 2023 89% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

44% of The Scripps Howard Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

The Scripps Howard Foundation draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 10 states in all.

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IL
MI
NY
OH
CT
CA
CO
KY
OK

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Scripps Howard Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding The Scripps Howard Foundation receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.

State$50
Top programs
  • DEDICATED$50

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like The Scripps Howard Foundation

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Scripps Howard Foundation: 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 The Scripps Howard Foundation?
The Scripps Howard Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,724,998 to it, the largest being THE ANDROCLES FOUNDATION INC ($12,489,330). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Scripps Howard Foundation have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $15,724,998 in grants to The Scripps Howard Foundation, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Scripps Howard Foundation?
THE ANDROCLES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,489,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Scripps Howard Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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