The Scripps Family Fund For Education
Official website for The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts (SFFEA). The site states the foundation mission, lists recent grantees and grant programs (including Quick Grants and Wheels to Learning), and provides guidance that funding is by invitation only.
Source: Website · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
Small-to-medium education or arts organizations delivering field trips, museum or STEM education, after-school/summer enrichment, scholarship programs, or youth development services—especially organizations with a Connecticut presence or strong regional partnership ties.
Good Fit
- • Direct programmatic alignment with K–12 education, museum learning, STEM, music, or summer/after-school enrichment
- • Programs that fund field trips, camp scholarships, literacy or youth leadership in under-resourced schools
- • Existing relationships or introductions from previously funded organizations
- • Established local presence in Connecticut or demonstrated service to CT communities
- • Ability to manage small-to-medium sized grants and clear program budgets
Geography
Observed grants reached organizations in 11 states, but giving is heavily concentrated in Connecticut where about 61% of dollars went in the latest year, with secondary activity in New York and a few other states.
Recipient Variety
The latest year shows a broad recipient set—191 grants to 149 distinct organizations across many program types—so the foundation funds a wide variety of independent education and arts groups despite some financial concentration among top recipients.
New Applicants
The website and application guidance state funding is by invitation only and the default process is preselection, but behavioral evidence shows 54 new recipients in 2023 (about 36%), so new entrants do appear in the portfolio though unsolicited approaches are explicitly discouraged.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
