GrantmakersTennessee

Scott Hamilton Cares Foundation Inc

Franklin, TN · EIN 47-2328142. Reported 34 grants totalling $1,920,271 to 23 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

23organizations funded
$12,239median reported grant
$1,920,271granted, 2021-2024
40%of grantees funded again the next year
62%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Scott Hamilton Cares Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under medical research rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE H30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 62% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 40% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $12,239. Half of what it reported fell between $9,700 and $29,642; the smallest was $5,289 and the largest $400,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
16 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The V FoundationCary, NC$1,200,000442024
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, TN$200,000112024
Providence Medical FoundationAnaheim, CA$107,500112023
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteBoston, MA$65,000112021
St Joseph Health Northern California LLCIrvine, CA$40,879112024
Nashville Predators FoundationNashville, TN$39,642222024
Connecticut Childrens Medical CenterHartford, CT$34,717222024
Providence Alaska FoundationAnchorage, AK$29,551222023
The Cleveland Clinic FoundationIndependence, OH$27,045222024
Illinois Masonic Medical CenterChicago, IL$24,066222024
Adventhealth Foundation IncAltamonte Spg, FL$22,425222024
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer InstituteDetroit, MI$21,678222024
Cancer ConnectionJuneau, AK$15,664112023
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Foundation IncTampa, FL$12,289222022
Mayo ClinicRochester, MN$11,921112022
Phoenix Childrens Hospital FoundationPhoenix, AZ$11,921112022
Adirondack Community Foundation IncLake Placid, NY$10,042112023
Huntsman Cancer FoundationSalt Lake City, UT$10,000112021
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterNew York, NY$10,000112024
Alliance for Childhood DiseasesLas Vegas, NV$7,400112024
Baptist Health South Florida Foundation IncCoral Gables, FL$6,275112023
Carti Cancer CenterLittle Rock, AR$6,256112021
The Karmanos Cancer InstituteDetroit, MI$6,000112022

9 of 23 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 23 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
13 orgs
Medical Research
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20215$486,545$10,000
20226$299,093$11,921
202312$506,731$16,482
202411$627,902$12,228

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

62% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

North Carolina
$1.2M
Tennessee
$240K
California
$148K
Massachusetts
$65K
Alaska
$45K
Florida
$41K
Connecticut
$35K
Michigan
$28K

Down to the city

Cary, NC
$1.2M
Nashville, TN
$240K
Anaheim, CA
$108K
Boston, MA
$65K
Irvine, CA
$41K
Hartford, CT
$35K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,239 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Scott Hamilton Cares Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 680483, Franklin, TN, 37068.

EIN 47-2328142 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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