The Scattergood Foundation

• The Scattergood Foundation, based in Philadelphia, PA, funds behavioural health, mental health, substance use, emotional wellbeing, immigrant wellness and harm reduction work across Greater Philadelphia—Bucks, Chester, Delaware and two more counties in Pennsylvania—with priority given to Pennsylvania, Kensington, Harrowgate and Fairhill, so applicants should be working in this area.
• A realistic request sits around the median grant of $25,000, since about eight in ten of its 449 grants to organisations fall between $10,000 and $31,500, though the largest grant was about $325,000; named programmes set specific amounts, such as $30,000 for Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness Sustaining Grants, $15,000 for its Pipeline Grants, $10,000 for Kensington Community Resilience Fund Community Resilience Grants and $3,000 for its Community Momentum Grants.
• The Foundation accepts applications on a rolling basis, and for the Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness, eligible organisations respond to a Request for Proposals, after which eligible applications go to a granting group for review and collective decisions.
• Seventy-eight per cent of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in the two prior filings, so this looks like a relationship-led funder where ongoing support to existing grantees takes up most of the money, even though half of its 449 grants were $25,000 or less.
• With total annual giving of $3,434,664 paid, grant writers should tailor applications closely to the stated themes and geographic priorities and consider a modest, well-targeted request.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• First Person Arts · Grant
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Children First Pennsylvania · State wide coalition building
  $75,0002024 tax year
• WHYY · Behavioral health reporters
  $40,0002024 tax year
• Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Mental health
  $40,0002024 tax year
• Active Minds · Behavioral health fellows
  $40,0002024 tax year
• Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Mental health
  $40,0002024 tax year
• Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians · Mental health
  $31,0002024 tax year
• Korean Senior Citizens Association · Mental health
  $31,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.