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Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Inc at a glance

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Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$97k
Granted FY2020
20
Grants FY2020
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States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$448kHuman Services$116kYouth Development$69kRecreation & Sports$67kReligion$33kHealth$24kEducation$15kEnvironment$9kOther$0
02FY2020 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $67,560, the rows itemized in this filing. The $97,310 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k18 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$2,000
Median grant
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States reached
$962k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Foundation for Jewish Camps$20,000
American Camping Foundation$10,000
Wayne Memorial Health Foundation$7,500
Harlam Village Academy$5,000
PEEC$5,000
Project Morry$5,000
Camp Young Judaea Global$2,000
Camp Young Judaea Texas$2,000
Camp Young Judaea Midwest$2,000
Camp Young Judaea Tel Yehudah$2,000
Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake$2,000
The Camp Airy and Camp Louise Foundation$1,000
Marley's Mission$1,000
Louis August Jonas Foundation$1,000
Wayne Pike Adult Literacy Program$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $180 → 6%NJY CAMPS: $10k → 16%NJY CAMPS: $10k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR HARMONY PRESENTS: $1k → 9%THE FOUNDATION FOR HARMONY PRESENTS: $180 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 31 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2020, 23 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
46

Total granted

$128k
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+15%

Still filing today

45%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
HealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EXPERIENCE CAMPS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +507%
  • DH
    DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $8k · revenue +53%
  • CK
    Camp Kinder Ring
    2× · 2018–2019 · $7k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • VC
    VARIOUS CHARITIES
    one grant, 2017 · $114k
  • FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +31%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Camp Ramah in the Poconos

Camp ramah's mission is to create a nurturing, safe, fun-filled, vibrant jewish community that inspires the education, social, cultural, moral, physical, and emotional growth of campers and staff, fostering life-long jewish identity. ramah…

Recreation & Sports
2
Camp Laurelwood Inc

Camp laurelwood is connecticut's only jewish non-profit overnight camp, and also a shoreline jewish day camp with the objectives of fostering personal growth, leadership, self-reliance, self-confidence, cooperation, and a sense of…

Recreation & Sports
3
Surprise Lake Camp

The mission of surprise lake camp is to provide a high quality jewish experience for children and young adults that is safe, fun and promotes personal growth. through our summer camp and year round programs, we promote jewish identity…

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4
Gan Israel Chabad Inc

Operation of summer day camp and overnight camp which combines activities with a Torah education

Recreation & Sports
5
Camp Morasha Inc

Camp Morasha integrates the best in informal and formal education in all of its programming and activities through a transformative and fun, co-ed, summer experience for Jewish youth. The camp inspires and develops the minds, bodies,…

Religion
6
Jewish Reconstructionist Camping Corporation

Incredibly diverse and welcoming communities where we encourage children to discover what being jewish means to themno matter who they are or where they come from.

Recreation & Sports
7
Camp Ramah in Northern California

Camp ramah in northern california engages the members of our camp community in joyful, transformative experiences that serve as a model for lifelong jewish learning and practice, commitment to klal yisrael (israel and the jewish…

Recreation & Sports
8
Camp Young Judaea Midwest Inc

Camp young judaea midwest, inspires jewish children of diverse backgrounds to thrive in a joyful, tight-knit community that is passionate about israel and judaism.

Recreation & Sports
9
Young Judaea Camp Tel Yehudah Inc

Camp tel yehudah inspires jewish and zionist youth around the world to experience and embrace the diversity of the jewish people in a joyful and diverse community while training them to become leaders who effect positive change for the…

Recreation & Sports
10
The Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds Inc

To enhance the day camp experience, promote jewish values, and provide a safe environment for the campers and staff who call our campgrounds home.

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11
Camp Avoda Inc

Committed to providing jewish boys with a safe, vibrant and nurturing summer environment where "friendships are built to last a lifetime". we foster values of teamwork, leadership, self-confidence and respect for one another based on…

Recreation & Sports
12
Camp Jcc of Binghamton Ny Inc

To provide jewish and secular programming and services in a safe, supervised, and welcoming environment in which campers have the opportunity to learn new skills, co-operation, and teamwork, as well as forge friendships and memories that…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Judaea Sprout Lake Camp Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 90 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS CHARITIES: $114,064 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITIESFoundation for Jewish Camps: $20,000 · OtherFoundation for Jewish CampsPEEC: $15,000 · OtherPEECCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL: $10,720 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherAmerican Camping Foundation: $10,000 · Other+56 more: $100,226 · Other+56 moreFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $10,100 · Youth DevelopmentFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S: $20,000 · Human ServicesFoundation for Harmony Presents: $1,180 · Human Services+1 more: $180 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCamp Kinder Ring: $6,500 · Arts & CultureTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT: $1,250 · Arts & CultureFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · HealthMARLEY'S MISSION INC: $4,300 · HealthDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $1,000 · Health+5 more: $1,030 · HealthEDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsMACCABI USA INC: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsHAPPINESS IS CAMPING: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP KINDERLAND INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $7,680 · EnvironmentLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $750 · Environment+1 more: $250 · Environment
Other$280,010Youth Development$27,100Human Services$21,360Arts & Culture$18,750Health$15,830Recreation & Sports$15,500Environment$8,680

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW JERSEY FEDERATION OF YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND YOUNG WOMEN'S: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $10,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $7,680 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Kinder Ring: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDEN VILLAGE CAMP INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES CHARTER SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARLEY'S MISSION INC: $4,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG JUDAEA SPROUT LAKE CAMP INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPSTART BAY AREA: $2,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPINESS IS CAMPING: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Augusta: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT: $1,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOUIS AUGUST JONAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCAMP KINDERLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $736 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITREK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP DREAMCATCHER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS BISCAYNE NATURE CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBMI FOUNDATION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STATE CAMP DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION: $180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Honesdale Nationa…Wayne County Communit…The John & Helen Vill…Scranton Area Foundat…Hickory Hill Foundati…Pocono Mountains Vaca…The Harry and Jeanett…Combined Jewish Phila…William E Chatlos Fou…Allone CharitiesPpl FoundationJewish Community Fede…
The Honesdale National Bank FoundationPA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · Wayne County Community Foundation · The John & Helen Villaume Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Hickory Hill Foundation · Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · William E Chatlos Foundation · Allone Charities · Ppl Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $445k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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