Alabama · Private foundation
Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $72k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $52k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $25k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $52k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $29k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $38k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $65k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Troy University Foundation | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St Luke United Methodist Church | $34,350 | 9 | n/a |
| Birmingham-Southern College | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Army Aviation - Ozark | $22,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Coffee County Arts Alliance | $20,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Hand Up Enterprise Al | $9,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Alabama Audubon | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Presbyterian Home for Children | $4,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Vivian B Adams School Board | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christ the King Lutheran Church | $3,500 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Troy University Foundation | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St Luke United Methodist Church | $34,350 | 9 | n/a |
| Birmingham-Southern College | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Army Aviation - Ozark | $22,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Coffee County Arts Alliance | $20,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Hand Up Enterprise Al | $9,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Alabama Audubon | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Presbyterian Home for Children | $4,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Vivian B Adams School Board | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christ the King Lutheran Church | $3,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Alabama Ornithological Society | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wiregrass United Way Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Dog Harmony Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Care Counseling Services | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephens College | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Destin Woman's Club Incorporated | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| YMCA | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Southside Church of Christ | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Alabama-Florida Council Inc Scouting America | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation
- How much does Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation give?
- Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $72,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Religion (17%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Troy University Foundation ($60k), St Luke United Methodist Church ($34k), Birmingham-Southern College ($25k).
- Does Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, The Jerry B Brunson Enterprise Rotary Club, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
- Where is Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation based?
- Edwin L and Elizabeth L Skelton Foundation is based in AL.
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