· Private foundation
Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 STATE UNIVERSITY - WRESTLING | $10,000 |
| COLUMBUS Z00 | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-WOMEN'S SWIM & DIVE | $10,000 |
| OHIO REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 79 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 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 W O L F ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MIDWIFE ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chabad of Columbus Inc ↗
- 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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph & Helen Skilken Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The New Paradigm Theatre Company Inc: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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