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Emerald Sky Foundation at a glance

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Emerald Sky 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.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.9MReligion$27kArts & Culture$13kRecreation & Sports$3kEnvironment$2kHuman Services$2kHealth$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE$15,000
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS$10,000
RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$10,000
COLUMBIA THEATRE ARTS FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WORCESTER ACADEMY: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $55k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $15k → 11%COLUMBIA RIVER READER: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $53k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $34k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $34k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $11k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $1.0M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $50k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $30k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $25k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $10k → 15%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $25k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $25k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $15k → 13%RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 13%RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $10k → 13%RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 13%LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $10k → 13%RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 13%RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 13%RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 13%RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 13%RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 13%RA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 13%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

WA
MA
OR
CA
MO
KS
NC
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 13 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$1.9M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+14%

Still filing today

23%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • LC
    LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $233k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $183k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CA
    CAL ATHLETICS FUND UC BERKELEY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • UO
    UNIVERISTY OF OREGON CHEMISTY
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Washington State University Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…

Education
2
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
3
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
4
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
5
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
6
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
Uc Press Foundation

The university of california press foundation (incorporated in 1981) is dedicated to raising philanthropic support and community visibility to ensure the long-term sustainability of uc press.

Arts & Culture
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
10
Bellevue College Foundation

Bellevue college foundation brings together people and resources across the community to invest in bc students, faculty, and staff to realize their goals and dreams.

Education
11
University of Wisconsin Foundation

To promote the welfare of and advance the objectives of the university of wisconsin-madison by encouraging the interest, engagement, and financial support of alumni, donors, and friends in the life of the university and with each other.

Education
12
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Columbia Theater Arts 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

8 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. 8 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $1,190,000 · OtherLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $233,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTSUNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $183,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGONRA LONG HIGH SCHOOL: $78,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $67,000 · Other+12 more: $54,625 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationWORCESTER ACADEMY: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationCOLUMBIA THEATER ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthSonoma County Regional Parks Foundation: $500 · Recreation & SportsWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$1,805,925Education$115,500Arts & Culture$5,000Environment$1,500Health$500Recreation & Sports$500Human Services$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER ACADEMY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA THEATER ARTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma County Regional Parks Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA THEATER ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Emerald Sky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emerald Sky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 25 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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