· Private foundation
Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $407k
- $250k+1 grant · $287k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER | $286,859 |
| DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER | $118,092 |
| LIGHT THE WAY MINISTRY | $96,000 |
| NORTHPOINT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC | $73,000 |
| LIGHT THE WAY MINISTRY | $70,000 |
| DESOTO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| SAV-A-LIFE OF DESOTO COUNTY | $36,000 |
| CONFIDENTIAL CARE MOBILE MINISTRY INC | $20,000 |
| MEMPHIS UNION MISSION | $18,000 |
| AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC | $18,000 |
| COMPEL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| OLIVE BRANCH COMMUNITY EMERGENCY FOOD MINISTRY INC | $12,000 |
| SRVS GROUP HOME I INC | $12,000 |
| STREETS MINISTRIES INC | $12,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 6% of Homer Skelton Charitable 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.
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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +352% · 67% of their budget- ACAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +127%
- SOSAV-A-LIFE OF DESOTO COUNTY2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- WMWESLEY MEADOWS CAMPAIGNone grant, 2019 · $450k
- LFLIFE FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CACONCORD ACADEMY INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -5%
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 encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
To provide rehabilitative social services to the distressed, handicapped and underprivileged.
The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
Rescue the least the lost and the lonely...
Our mission is to affirm the value of life by providing a network of care. We strive to empower mothers and fathers experiencing planned and unplanned pregnancies with healthy options through medical services, education, mentoring and…
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
To offer a christ centered way out of a seemingly hopeless situation for victims of domestic violence.
Exists to educate and empower women to choose and cherish life.
To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.
To share the truth and love of Jesus Christ in conjunction with a ministry to those facing pregnancy related issues: a pregnant womens' counseling program, a free pregnancy testing program, a maternity support (baby supplies, clothing and…
Life ministries existes to shepherd people in a process of discoverying god's heart through teaching, writing, and spiritual direction in order to usher freedom through jesus christ.
The mission of christian services for children in alabama is to show the love of christ by providing counseling and other related services to children and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agape Child and Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Borderless Brigade Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 32. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 62 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 DESOTO COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT THE WAY MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNION MISSON ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SAV-A-LIFE OF DESOTO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STREETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVE BRANCH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds CONFIDENTIAL CARE MOBILE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COUNCIL ON POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HANDS INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · United Way of the Mid South · Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · The Knapp Foundation · Crews Family Foundation · Wiseheart Foundation Inc · Cadence Bank Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Homer Skelton Charitable 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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