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Arthur Skodnek Foundation at a glance

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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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$293kYouth Development$121kEducation$100kHealth$55kEnvironment$21k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL$25,000
LAND TO LEARN INC$20,000
PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC$20,000
COMMON GROUND FARM INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIMINA FOUNDATION: $40k → 9%AMAZON WATCH: $21k → 10%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES (CIIS): $20k → 10%PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC: $10k → 7%LAND TO LEARN INC: $20k → 9%THE FRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER FARM & ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC: $20k → 9%UNADILLA COMMUNITY FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5k → 11%GRASSROOTS GARDENS OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $10k → 13%ROCKLAND FARM ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $5k → 15%GROUNDSWELL CENTER FOR LOCAL FOOD AND FARMING INC: $5k → 16%WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $25k → 16%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES (CIIS): $20k → 10%PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC: $10k → 7%LAND TO LEARN INC: $10k → 9%THE FRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER FARM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC: $15k → 9%GRASSROOTS GARDENS OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $10k → 13%WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $20k → 16%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES (CIIS): $10k → 10%PITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC: $5k → 7%LAND TO LEARN INC: $10k → 9%THE FRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER FARM & ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC: $10k → 9%GRASSROOTS GARDENS OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $5k → 13%WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $20k → 16%LAND TO LEARN INC: $10k → 9%THE FRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER FARM & ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC: $5k → 9%WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $10k → 16%LAND TO LEARN INC: $10k → 9%WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $10k → 16%LAND TO LEARN INC: $10k → 9%WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $10k → 16%LAND TO LEARN INC: $5k → 9%WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $10k → 16%HUDSON VALLEY SEED INC: $5k → 9%WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $5k → 16%COMMON GROUND FARM INC: $20k → 9%WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $5k → 16%COMMON GROUND FARM INC: $15k → 9%COMMON GROUND FARM INC: $10k → 9%PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC: $20k → 16%COMMON GROUND FARM INC: $10k → 9%PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC: $15k → 16%COMMON GROUND FARM INC: $10k → 9%PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC: $10k → 16%PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC: $10k → 16%PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC: $10k → 16%PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC: $5k → 16%PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC: $5k → 16%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$494k · 8 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$494k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+60%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHealthInternationalOther
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

  • WE
    WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $121k · revenue +21%
  • PB
    PHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +23%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • LF
    LIMINA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +60%
  • AW
    Amazon Watch Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +121%
  • IH
    ITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +39%
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.

1
Sustainable Growers
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2
East End Food Institute

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Sustainable Food Alliance Inc

To educate the public about the positive health and environmental benefits of organic food and farming.

Environment
4
Seed Peace

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

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5
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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6
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Foodshed Alliance a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Foodshed Alliance works to strengthen sustainable farming, increase access to local, healthy food, and protect the environment for all members of our communities

Food & Nutrition
8
Regenerative Farms Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Development in Gardening

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.

Community Improvement
10
Sagrada Botanical Gardens

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…

Environment
11
Cloudview

A farm focused on education, community involvement, and ecological farming. provide organic produce for local community through csa members, farmers markets and schools.

Food & Nutrition
12
A Greener World

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Common Ground Farm Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $121,000 · Youth DevelopmentWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOLPHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentPHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INCLAND TO LEARN: $80,000 · Food & NutritionLAND TO LEARNCOMMON GROUND FARM INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMON GROUND FARM INCPITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionPITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC+2 more: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 moreFRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER FARM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF HILLTOP H…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $50,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE…Seed Song Center Incorporated: $5,000 · EducationGrassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc: $28,000 · EnvironmentGrassroot…Amazon Watch Inc: $21,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Wa…LIMINA FOUNDATION: $40,000 · InternationalITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 · HealthGroundswell Center for Local Food and Farming Inc: $5,000 · Other
Youth Development$196,000Food & Nutrition$180,000Education$105,000Environment$49,000International$40,000Health$15,000Other$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL: $121,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetLAND TO LEARN: $80,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetPHILLIES BRIDGE FARM PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMON GROUND FARM INC: $65,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF HILLTOP HANOVER FARM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGrassroots Gardens of Western New York Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPITNEY MEADOWS COMMUNITY FARM INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $21,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetITHACA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetRockland Farm Alliance Inc co Marianne T OToole as Trustee: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGroundswell Center for Local Food and Farming Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSeed Song Center Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% 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.

Ulster Savings Charit…The Dyson FoundationJM McDonald Foundatio…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ulster Savings Charitable FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arthur Skodnek Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur Skodnek Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Arthur Skodnek Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Arthur Skodnek Foundation 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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