Ohio · Private foundation
Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $230k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $230k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $155k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $193k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $169k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $148k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $143k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Albany Pet Rescue Inc | $230,764 | 6 | 60% |
| Ohio State University Foundation | $46,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ohio Regional Training Center | $39,500 | 6 | 2% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Against Malaria Foundation | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| W O L F | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Midwife Assistance Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Columbus Association for the Performing Arts | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($620k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: Columbus Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Belford Family Charitable Fund Inc · L Brands Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation
- How much does Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation give?
- Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $230,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (23%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: New Albany Pet Rescue Inc ($231k), Ohio State University Foundation ($46k), Ohio Regional Training Center ($40k).
- Does Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Columbus Jewish Foundation, Belford Family Charitable Fund Inc.
- Where is Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation based?
- Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation is based in OH.
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