· Private foundation
Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of EDWIN L AND ELIZABETH L SKELTON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ARMY AVIATION | $7,500 |
| ENTERPRISE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ATHENS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ENTERPRISE MUSIC CLUB | $2,500 |
| HUNTSVILLE MADISON CO BOTANICAL GA | $2,500 |
| TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSION | $2,000 |
| ENTERPRISE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| HAND UP ENTERPRISE AL | $2,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY | $1,500 |
| ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 94% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TUTROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +48%
- HUHAND UP ENTERPRISE AL5× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +41%
- AAALABAMA AUDUBON3× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- CCCOFFEE COUNTY ARTSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- COCITY OF ENTERPRISE POLICEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ECENTERPRISE-STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
To provide thrift opportunities and low cost loans to members
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws,rules and regulations of the boy scouts of…
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Tukabatchee area council, boy scouts of america promotes and administers educational and recreational programs for young boys and young adults to prepare them to make ethical choices over their lifetime and achieve their full potential…
The mission of samford university is to nurture persons in their development of intellect, creativity, faith, and personhood. as a christian university, the community fosters academic, career, and ethical competency while encouraging…
The mission of united way of west alabama is to promote the general welfare of the citizens of west alabama by: raising funds, on an annual basis, to assist the effective delivery of health and human care programs and services, allocating…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The credit union's mission is to promote thrift among its members and create a source of credit for them at legitimate rates of interest. the credit union serves members in several counties throughout alabama. the total number of members…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is Hand Up Enterprise Al. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ARMY AVIATION - OZARK ↗
- Who funds COFFEE COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HAND UP ENTERPRISE AL ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA AUDUBON ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds VIVIAN B ADAMS SCHOOL BOARD ↗
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Jerry B Brunson Enterprise Rotary Club · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Je and Marjorie B Pittman Foundation Inc · Wiregrass Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton 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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