· Private foundation
Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- NANEW ALBANY PET RESCUE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $231k · revenue +98% · 60% of their budget
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +23%
- OROHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- TOTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- LLIEFTOWNone grant, 2020 · $4k
- GDGI DIVISION-NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
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.
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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,…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
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…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Please see schedule o for complete description of the organization's mission.
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…
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…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
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.
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 field is 18% 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 11% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
- The New Paradigm Theatre Company Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
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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