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Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$230k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Animals$244kRecreation & Sports$204kReligion$140kHealth$137kEducation$87kInternational$19kYouth Development$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $178k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ALBANY PET RESCUE$40,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$30,000
LIFETOWN$27,500
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
OHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER$10,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - WRESTLING$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-WOMEN'S SWIM & DIVE$10,000
COLUMBUS Z00$10,000
OSU CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE$5,000
CAPA$5,000
OSU CHABAD HOUSE$5,000
OSU B SCHOOL-FISHER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS$5,000
CHABAD OF DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS$3,000
TEMPLE BETH SHALOM$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $6k → 10%THE COLUMBUS ZOO: $60k → 5%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $5k → 10%THE COLUMBUS ZOO: $20k → 5%NEW ALBANY PET RESCUE: $41k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $5k → 10%COLUMBUS ZOO: $20k → 5%NEW ALBANY PET RESCUE: $40k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $5k → 10%COLUMBUS Z00: $10k → 5%NEW ALBANY PET RESCUE: $40k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-WOMEN'S SWIM & DIVE: $10k → 10%NEW ALBANY PET RESCUE: $39k → 15%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $7k → 14%NEW ALBANY PET RESCUE: $39k → 15%NEW ALBANY PET RESCUE: $32k → 15%LIFETOWN: $28k → 15%LIFETOWN: $23k → 15%LIFETOWN: $19k → 15%LIFETOWN: $14k → 15%BARNARD ANNUAL GALA: $15k → 17%LIFETOWN: $9k → 15%CAPA: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $50k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $50k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - DIVING: $40k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - DIVING: $40k → 15%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $25k → 15%OHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER: $10k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - DIVING: $10k → 15%OHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER: $10k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - DIVING: $10k → 15%OHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER: $10k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - WRESTLING: $10k → 15%OHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER: $6k → 15%OSU CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE: $5k → 15%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - WRESTLING: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - WRESTLING: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - WRESTLING: $5k → 15%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%OSU B SCHOOL-FISHER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: $5k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - WRESTLING: $5k → 15%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $6k → 15%COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
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CO
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TN
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GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$955k · 45 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
23

Total granted

$955k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+13%

Still filing today

58%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsCivil RightsEducationInternationalOther

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

  • NA
    NEW ALBANY PET RESCUE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $231k · revenue +98% · 60% of their budget
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +23%
  • OR
    OHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • L
    LIEFTOWN
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • GD
    GI DIVISION-NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United States Anti-Doping Agency

Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes

Recreation & Sports
2
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
3
American Board of Ophthalmology

None

4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
6
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
7
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
8
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
9
Public Library of Science

Please see schedule o for complete description of the organization's mission.

Science & Tech
10
Mercy for Animals Inc

Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…

Animals
11
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

12
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Xv Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Jewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyLgbtq+ Community SupportAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr20%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr21%69%10–20yr14%9%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr20%8%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,265

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.

04the grantee network

38 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 79 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL — $125,000 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - DIVING — $100,000 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - DIVINGIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIFETOWN — $91,000 · OtherLIFETOWNOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - WRESTLING — $30,000 · Other+52 more — $217,650 · Other+52 moreNEW ALBANY PET RESCUE INC — $230,764 · HealthNEW ALBANY PET RESCUE INC+5 more — $15,125 · Health+5 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $46,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $4,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College — $3,000 · EducationOHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER — $39,500 · Recreation & SportsJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati — $2,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $2,250 · Recreation & SportsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,300 · InternationalW O L F — $6,000 · AnimalsGIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS — $4,500 · AnimalsPAWSCO — $1,250 · AnimalsGEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY — $1,000 · AnimalsADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND — $7,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $1,750 · Civil RightsEquality Ohio Education Fund — $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$663,650Health$245,889Education$53,000Recreation & Sports$43,750International$13,800Animals$12,750Civil Rights$10,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW ALBANY PET RESCUE INC — $230,764 over 6y, 60% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER — $39,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND — $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MIDWIFE ASSISTANCE INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetW O L F — $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArts Business Collaborative — $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW PARADIGM THEATRE COMPANY INC — $2,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetXV FOUNDATION — $1,450 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPAWSCO — $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUSA DIVING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCCORMICK DIVERS BOOSTER CLUB — $800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreensburg Community Bread of Life Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYHAVEN INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NEW ALBANY PET RESCUE INC
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation
  • Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND
  • Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MIDWIFE ASSISTANCE INC
  • Who funds W O L F
  • Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc
  • Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
  • Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds Arts Business Collaborative
  • Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen 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.

Columbus FoundationOH18.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Joseph & Helen Skilken 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • The New Paradigm Theatre Company Inc13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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