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Gerda and Ole Skaarup Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$62kEnvironment$55kEducation$41kHealth$22kRecreation & Sports$13kHousing & Shelter$12kAnimals$12kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,035,905
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMM FDN INC$1,035,905
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE HELPERS FUND: $500 → 10%NORTH STAR FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219k · 43 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
25

Total granted

$219k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+2%

Still filing today

49%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • SI
    SOUNDWATERS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +61%
  • RJ
    ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +391%
  • W
    WAMC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GREENWICH LIBRARY
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -66%
  • NF
    NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -63%
  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -20%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Connecticut River Foundation At Steamboat Dock Inc

The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
3
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
8
The Maritime Aquarium At Norwalk Inc

The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.

Arts & Culture
9
Florence Griswold Museum Inc

The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
10
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
11
The Greenwich Land Trust Inc

Conserving the land. connecting the community. greenwich land trust conserves open space, connects our community with the natural world, and inspires the next generation of conservationists. the land trust permanently protects and cares…

Environment
12
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Historical Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Turimiquire Foundation Inc. 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

34 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. 34 of the 69 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMM FDN INC: $1,035,905 · OtherFAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMM FDN INC+44 more: $126,425 · Other+44 moreSOUNDWATERS INC: $36,750 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EnvironmentHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentWAMC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,500 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $1,750 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE CENTER CORP: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,175 · Arts & CultureROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $9,500 · EducationTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $6,000 · EducationANN WIGMORE NATURAL HEALTH INSTITUTE INC: $3,500 · EducationPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsHARLEM VALLEY RAIL TRAIL ASSOCIATIO: $500 · Recreation & SportsADOPT-A-DOG INC: $6,000 · AnimalsCOLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · AnimalsNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $3,250 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE HELPERS FUND: $500 · Human Services
Other$1,162,330Environment$50,250Arts & Culture$27,925Education$19,000Recreation & Sports$8,500Animals$7,500Human Services$5,750

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 budgetSOUNDWATERS INC: $36,750 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $9,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWAMC: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADOPT-A-DOG INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCall-A-Ride of Greenwich Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetANN WIGMORE NATURAL HEALTH INSTITUTE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $3,250 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN COUNTY RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE CENTER CORP: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE COLUMBIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHARLEM VALLEY RAIL TRAIL ASSOCIATIO: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HELPERS FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WHITE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ST MARY'S IN THE MOUNTAINS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds PEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds WAMC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GREENWICH LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds ADOPT-A-DOG INC ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
  • Who funds TURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Call-A-Ride of Greenwich Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANN WIGMORE NATURAL HEALTH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗

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.

Bank of Greene County Charitable FoundationNY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Flood-Gamble Foundation Inc · T Backer Fund Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · Panwy Foundation Inc · Hrbt Foundation · Henry L Kimelman Family 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 Gerda and Ole Skaarup Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerda and Ole Skaarup Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Guthrie Center Corp: 1% of income from government
  • Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 69 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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