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Louis C Skinner Foundationinc at a glance

· Private foundation

Louis C Skinner Foundationinc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Youth Development$160kArts & Culture$77kHousing & Shelter$72kHuman Services$32kFood & Nutrition$29kInternational$27kAnimals$18kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2020 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k12 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
$4,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER$34,500
SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY$13,000
MIAMI RESCUE MISSION$9,000
SALVATION ARMY$6,500
coconut grove cares$6,000
HEIFER INTERNATIoNAL$5,000
GRAMEEN FOUNDATION$4,500
THIS I BELIEVE$4,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI$3,500
casa valentina$2,500
HERALD CHARITIES INC$2,000
CAT NETWORK INC$1,000
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$750
NRDC$750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%coconut grove cares: $6k → 15%coconut grove cares: $6k → 15%coconut grove cares: $6k → 15%coconut grove cares: $6k → 15%FRIENDS OF MIAMI DADE PUBLIC LIBRAR: $750 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$422k · 17 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$422k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+223%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
AnimalsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OY
    OVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $159k · revenue +202%
  • SF
    SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $58k · revenue +20%
  • CG
    COCONUT GROVE CARES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • D4
    DUFFELS 4 KIDS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • FO
    Friends of the Miami-Dade Public Library Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $750 · revenue +223%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
2
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
3
University of Miami
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4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Blue World Foundation Inc

To stabilize the population of marine species in danger, especially sharks and rays in the caribbean of guatemala; through science and community strengthening which will provide the creation of alternative livelihoods, which eventually…

Environment
6
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.

Animals
7
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
8
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

—
9
South Miami Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of south miami hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health
10
Rebuilding Together Miami-Dade Inc

Rebuilding together miami-dade, inc. is a nonprofit whose mission is repairing homes, revitalizing communities and rebuiling lives. the organization raises funds from the private and public sector to fund the rehabilitation services…

Human Services
11
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
12
Miami Veterinary Foundation Inc

To increase access to veterinary care, promote responsible pet ownership, strengthen the human animal bond and support reduction of pet overpopulation in our community

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cat Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC: $159,000 · Youth DevelopmentOVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INCSOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $58,000 · OtherSOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INCHEIFER INTERNATIoNAL: $29,000 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIoNALSALVATION ARMY: $26,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE HERALD CHARITIES INC: $8,000 · OtherTHE HERALD CHARITIES INC+4 more: $8,500 · Other+4 moreMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $36,000 · Housing & ShelterMiami Rescue…CASA VALENTINA INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCASA VALENTI…GRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA: $27,000 · InternationalCOCONUT GROVE CARES INC: $23,500 · Human Services+1 more: $750 · Human ServicesTHIS I BELIEVE INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INC: $2,250 · Arts & CultureHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP: $13,500 · AnimalsTHE CAT NETWORK INC: $4,000 · AnimalsXERCES SOCIETY INC: $750 · Animals
Youth Development$159,000Other$129,500Housing & Shelter$46,000International$27,000Human Services$24,250Arts & Culture$19,250Animals$18,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC: $159,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $58,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $36,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA: $27,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOCONUT GROVE CARES INC: $23,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHIS I BELIEVE INC: $17,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetCASA VALENTINA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HERALD CHARITIES INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CAT NETWORK INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Miami Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Miami Foundation IncFL15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louis C Skinner Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis C Skinner Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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