· Private foundation
Morton J and Bernice W Skirboll Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Morton J and Bernice W Skirboll Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federation Of Sarasota-Manatee Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Morton J and Bernice W Skirboll Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $103k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k10 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT FOUNDATION INC | $55,000 |
| JEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER GEORGE EASTMAN CIRCLE | $11,500 |
| COMPEER SARASOTA | $5,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE | $1,800 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY | $1,750 |
| TEMPLE B'RITH KODESH | $1,665 |
| TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL | $1,175 |
| JEWISH FAMILY CHILDRENS SERVICES SARASOTA | $500 |
| DESIGNING WOMEN FRIENDS OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES | $500 |
| SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTER | $250 |
| MS FOUNDATION | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- JSJEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +99%
- ATASOLO THEATRE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +46%
SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
- EEEPIC - EVERY PERSON INFLUENCES CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100 · revenue +148%
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.
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
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Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
To build and sustain a strong and vibrant omaha jewish community and to support jews in israel and around the world.
To improve the health, well being, and quality of life of our jewish community's elderly, as well as that of our general community, being mindful of the values implicit in our jewish heritage.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 47 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLASSER SCHOENBAUM HUMAN SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds COMPEER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST HEALTH SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES 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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Agt Ttee Ua Navigation Trust 14-313680 · Lewis Foundation · Harold & Joan Feinbloom Family Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Morton J and Bernice W Skirboll Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 0% 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.