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Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$150k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$150,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$777k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$150k0%
FY20231$100k100%
FY20228$44k88%
FY20212$150k50%
FY20202$200k100%
FY20196$23k50%
FY20188$233k88%
FY20172$78kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$628kEducation$175kSocial Science$50kPhilanthropy$25kHuman Services$20kInternational$18kAnimals$15kCivil Rights$9kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Emanu-El$250,0002n/a
Congregation Beth David$100,0001n/a
Rogers Park Montessori School$75,00011%
Depaul University$25,00010%
Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley$10,00020%
Paws Chicago$10,00020%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$9,00010%
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc$9,00010%
The Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the Ohio State University$7,50030%
Israel Emergency Alliance$6,50010%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Emanu-El$250,0002n/a
Congregation Beth David$100,0001n/a
Rogers Park Montessori School$75,00011%
Depaul University$25,00010%
Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley$10,00020%
Paws Chicago$10,00020%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$9,00010%
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc$9,00010%
The Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the Ohio State University$7,50030%
Israel Emergency Alliance$6,50010%
Paws Inc$5,00012%
Hias Inc$2,50010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($467k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRogers Park Montessori School: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDepaul University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Services of Silicon Valley: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPaws Chicago: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the Ohio State University: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHias Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation

How much does Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation give?
Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (63%), Education (17%), Social Science (5%).
Who are Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Congregation Emanu-El ($250k), Congregation Beth David ($100k), Rogers Park Montessori School ($75k).
Does Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation based?
Morris & Fannie Skilken Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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