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Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $902k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $286,859
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $58M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $902k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.8M | 56% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $626k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $1.0M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $469k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $697k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $671k | 11% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $209k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desoto County Dream Center Inc | $1,984,111 | 4 | 67% |
| Northpoint Christian School Inc | $782,944 | 5 | n/a |
| Light the Way Ministry | $316,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Desoto County Schools | $293,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Compel Church | $274,521 | 2 | n/a |
| Agape Child and Family Services Inc | $114,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Memphis Union Misson | $113,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Concord Academy Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Sav-A-Life of Desoto County | $75,000 | 2 | 20% |
| Streets Ministries Inc | $73,900 | 8 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desoto County Dream Center Inc | $1,984,111 | 4 | 67% |
| Northpoint Christian School Inc | $782,944 | 5 | n/a |
| Light the Way Ministry | $316,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Desoto County Schools | $293,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Compel Church | $274,521 | 2 | n/a |
| Agape Child and Family Services Inc | $114,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Memphis Union Misson | $113,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Concord Academy Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Sav-A-Life of Desoto County | $75,000 | 2 | 20% |
| Streets Ministries Inc | $73,900 | 8 | 1% |
| Olive Branch Community Food Pantry | $60,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Longview Heights Baptist Church | $26,480 | 3 | n/a |
| Hope House Day Care Center Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Srvs Group Home I Inc | $23,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greater Memphis | $23,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | $22,708 | 3 | n/a |
| Joni and Friends | $22,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Confidential Care Mobile Ministry | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Shepherd's Haven Ministries Inc | $18,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Interfaith Council on Poverty Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Heartland Hands Inc | $11,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Carewheels Foundation | $9,160 | 2 | n/a |
| Life Choices Pregnancy Care Center Inc | $6,900 | 2 | 1% |
| Sacred Heart Southern Missions Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi College | $5,986 | 1 | 0% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity Health Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Desoto Grace Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borderless Brigade Inc | $4,380 | 1 | 4% |
| Global Outreach International Inc | $4,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tipton-Rosemark Academy Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Believing Church Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation
- How much does Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation give?
- Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $901,531 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Education (19%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Desoto County Dream Center Inc ($2.0M), Northpoint Christian School Inc ($783k), Light the Way Ministry ($316k).
- Does Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, United Way of the Mid South.
- Where is Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation based?
- Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation is based in DE.
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