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Arthur Skodnek Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC | $20,000 |
| COMMON GROUND FARM INC | $20,000 |
| LAND TO LEARN INC | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WEWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $121k · revenue +21%
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +28%
- GGGrassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $28k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- LFLIMINA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +60%
- AWAmazon Watch Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +121%
- IHITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +39%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
East End Food is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support, promote and advocate for farmers and producers, while ensuring everyone in the community can enjoy and be nourished by local food. We envision the East End of Long…
To educate the public about the positive health and environmental benefits of organic food and farming.
To grow the local food supply by supporting farmers, preparing food plants for climate change and increasing health giving food availability for people in need
Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
Foodshed Alliance works to strengthen sustainable farming, increase access to local, healthy food, and protect the environment for all members of our communities
To scale up forest protection and transition to regenerative agriculture by incubating adoption of the Regeneration Hub model. RF fulfills its Mission to catalyze planetary regeneration, empower women & indigenous communities in order to…
Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.
The mission is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…
A farm focused on education, community involvement, and ecological farming. provide organic produce for local community through csa members, farmers markets and schools.
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Common Ground Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seed Song Center Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAND TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND FARM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER FARM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds LIMINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc ↗
- Who funds PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Rockland Farm Alliance Inc co Marianne T OToole as Trustee ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming Inc ↗
- Who funds UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Seed Song Center Incorporated ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · The Dyson Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arthur Skodnek Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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