James Scapa
Profile Summary
James Scapa is a U.S. technology-industry billionaire based in California, born in 1957, with an estimated net worth of ~$1.7B RTB. SEC records identify him as an insider associated with Altair Engineering Inc. SEC EDGAR.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR shows 122 filings for James Ralph Scapa, including 121 insider filings connected to Altair Engineering Inc. Recent filings include Form 4 reports, which disclose insiders’ transactions in company securities; Form 144 notices, which report a proposed sale of restricted or control securities; and an SC 13G/A, an amendment updating a beneficial-ownership report SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
The James And Sally Scapa Family Foundation, based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, reported $5,615,417 in assets, $179,914 in revenue, and $141,054 in expenses for tax year 2023 ProPublica 990. The foundation reported paying $125,000 in grants that year ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
FEC records show five contributions totaling $2,000 between May 3, 2007, and May 16, 2025 FEC. The party breakdown was $1,300 to Republican recipients, $500 to Democratic recipients, and $200 to recipients with an unknown party designation; listed recipients include Knollenberg for Congress Committee ($1,000), Eric Chung for Michigan ($500), Candice Miller for Congress ($300), and WinRed ($200) FEC.
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U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
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Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $2,000.
Top Recipients
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SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
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