· Private foundation
Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC | $18,000 |
| MEMPHIS UNION MISSION | $18,000 |
| COMPEL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE DAY CARE CENTER INC | $12,000 |
| STREETS MINISTRIES INC | $12,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MEMPHIS | $12,000 |
| SRVS GROUP HOME I INC | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +197%
- SOSAV-A-LIFE OF DESOTO COUNTY2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- WMWESLEY MEADOWS CAMPAIGNone grant, 2019 · $450k
- CACONCORD ACADEMY INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -5%
- LFLIFE FELLOWSHIP CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 62 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Homer Skelton Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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