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Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$179k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving3$30k100%
FY20233$32k0%
FY20224$58k75%
FY20214$41k50%
FY20208$60k63%
FY20195$33kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$86kArts & Culture$79kEducation$55kFood & Nutrition$28kPhilanthropy$10kCommunity Improvement$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($132k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlack Ensemble Theater Corporation: $40,999 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHampshire College Trustees: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Faiths Food Bank Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of American Song Archives Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKhecari: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Night Ministry: $1,000 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 9.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc

How much does Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc give?
Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (33%), Arts & Culture (30%), Education (21%).
Who are Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Black Ensemble Theater Corporation ($41k), Hampshire College Trustees ($23k), Chicago City Theatre Company dba Joel Hall Dancers & Center ($20k).
Does Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc based?
Shirley & David B Sykes Family Foundation Inc 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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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