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Jennie K Scaife Charitable Foundation

West Palm Beach, FL · EIN 84-4738066. Reported 114 grants totalling $19.1M to 33 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$60,000median grant
$19.1Mgranted, 2021-2024
33recipients, as named on its returns
79%of grantees funded again the next year
$179.1Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Jennie K Scaife Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $60,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $25,000 and $245,442; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $1,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
22 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
18 grants
$100,000 and Up
48 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Allegheny Health NetworkPittsburgh, PA$6,090,3741442024
Crime Victims Treatment CenterNew York, NY$2,500,000642024
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in RecoveryPittsburgh, PA$2,350,000742024
Humane Animal RescuePittsburgh, PA$1,325,000332024
University of Miami Leonard M Miller School of MedicineMiami, FL$1,305,282412022
University South Florida FoundationTampa, FL$1,000,000112023
Unicef USANew York, NY$900,000332024
Crisis Center North IncPittsburgh, PA$815,000842024
Women's Center and Shelter of Greater PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$700,000642024
Urban Youth ImpactWest Palm Beach, FL$255,000442024
CASA of Allegheny CountyPittsburgh, PA$240,000442024
Rebel Recovery FloridaWest Palm Beach, FL$214,992332024
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Southern FloridaFt Lauderdale, FL$158,000332024
Children's Home of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$130,000442024
Bethlehem Haven of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$100,000112021
Jack & Jill Children's CenterFt Lauderdale, FL$90,000442024
Community Partners of South FloridaRiviera Beach, FL$85,000222024
Family Tree (the)Baltimore, MD$85,000332024
Little Smiles IncPalm Beach Gardens, FL$85,000222024
Northend Rise IncWest Palm Beach, FL$85,000212023
Speak Up for Kids of Palm Beach CountyWest Palm Beach, FL$80,000332024
Clothes for Kids IncClearwater, FL$60,000442024
Community Actions Stops AbuseSt Petersburg, FL$60,000332023
Dress for Success PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$60,000222024
Mon Valley Youth and TeenDonora, PA$60,000332024
Crosswinds Youth Services IncCocoa, FL$50,000222022
Feed the Hungry Pantry of Palm Beach CountyPalm Beach Gardens, FL$50,000222024
Simply GraceRichardson, TX$45,000332023
Center for Children CounselingPalm Beach Gardens, FL$35,000222024
Long Island CaresHauppauge, NY$28,450222024
Friends of Palm SpringsPalm Springs, CA$25,000112022
The Family TreeWheat Ridge, CO$25,000112022
Teen Court of Sarasota IncSarasota, FL$20,000222024

27 of 33 (82%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 79%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 66 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
29 grants
Health Care
9 grants
Youth Development
5 grants
Civil Rights
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$2,573,000$46,500
202225$5,473,073$90,000
202335$5,909,450$50,000
202434$5,156,575$90,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

62% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Pennsylvania
$11.9M
Florida
$3.6M
New York
$3.4M
Maryland
$85K
Texas
$45K
California
$25K
Colorado
$25K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc13 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $60,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Jennie K Scaife Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 777 S Flagler Dr East Tower Ste, West Palm Beach, FL, 33401. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 84-4738066 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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