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Skaggs Foundation at a glance

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Skaggs Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$107k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.2MEnvironment$280kHealth$25kHousing & Shelter$10kAnimals$5kEducation$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SITKA FINE ARTS ENDOWMENT$63,217
SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY$25,000
SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER$7,000
ALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST$5,000
SOUTHEAST AK CONSERVATION COUNCIL$5,000
SITKA LOCAL FOODS NETWORK$1,000
ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%ECOTRUST: $5k → 12%RIVERS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 11%EYAK PRESERVATION COUNCIL: $3k → 7%SITKA FINE ARTS ENDOWMENT: $644k → 8%COAST ALASKA: $15k → 8%LYNN CANAL CONSERVATION: $5k → 10%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALASKA: $15k → 10%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE: $1k → 11%SITKA FINE ARTS ENDOWMENT: $355k → 8%SEACC: $10k → 8%COOK INLET KEEPER: $5k → 10%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE: $500 → 11%ALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST: $100k → 8%SEACC: $10k → 8%AUDUBON ALASKA: $5k → 10%INIAN ISLANDS INSTITUTE: $100k → 8%SAIL: $5k → 8%COOK INLET KEEPER: $5k → 10%SITKA FINE ARTS ENDOWMENT: $63k → 8%SOUTHEAST AK CONSERVATION COUNCIL: $5k → 8%COOK INLET NATIVE HEAD START: $3k → 10%SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $25k → 8%SAIL: $5k → 8%ALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST: $20k → 8%REACH: $3k → 8%ALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST: $20k → 8%REACH: $2k → 8%SEABANK: $20k → 8%ALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST: $20k → 8%ALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST: $15k → 8%ALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST: $9k → 8%SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER: $7k → 8%ALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST: $5k → 8%SITKA LOCAL FOODS NETWORK: $1k → 8%SITKA MARITIME HERITAGE SOCIETY: $1k → 8%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 8 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$1.3M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+55%

Still filing today

88%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AA
    ALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $124k · revenue +15%
  • AS
    ALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST
    4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +684%
  • Earth Island Institute Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +271%

Funded once

  • TI
    TIDELINES INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +34%
  • S
    SEABANK
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALASKA
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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
Alaska Sustainability Initiative

To advance solutions that build the resilience and sustainability of Alaska, for its current and future residents and the natural systems upon which they depend.

Animals
2
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
3
Northern Alaska Environmental Center

Since 1971, the northern alaska environmental center has promoted environmental conservation and sustainable resource stewardship in interior and arctic alaska through education and advocacy.

Environment
4
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-Seacc

SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…

Environment
5
Katmai Conservancy

Katmai Conservancy supports the preservation of Katmai National Park and Preserve its unique ecosystems scenic character and associated natural and cultural resources by promoting greater public interest appreciation and support through…

Environment
6
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
7
Sitka Historical Society

To preserve and promote the events, stories, and artifacts of the human history of the sitka, alaska area for the inspiration, education and benefit of current and future generations.

Arts & Culture
8
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
9
Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission

The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (Commission), based in Utqiagvik, Alaska, is a nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of preserving and enhancing the marine resources of Bowhead whales including protection of habitat, Eskimo…

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10
Southeast Alaska Land Trust

The southeast alaska land trust (seal trust) collaborates with communities, individuals, and organizations throughout southeast alaska to help ensure that highly valued habitat, recreation, open space, and cultural and historic areas…

Environment
11
Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science

The alaska sealife center generates and shares scientific knowledge to promote understanding and stewardship of alaska's marine ecosystems.

Animals
12
Neskowin Coast Foundation

The sitka center for art and ecology champions access to art and nature for all. we believe that integrating the arts with the sciences is essential for restoring balance in our relationship with the natural world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sitka Sound Science Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lynn Canal Conservation 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

19 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. 19 of the 27 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SITKA FINE ARTS ENDOWMENT: $1,062,435 · Arts & CultureSITKA FINE ARTS ENDOWMENT+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC: $124,000 · OtherALASKA ARTS SOUT…SEABANK: $20,000 · OtherSEABANKSEACC: $20,000 · OtherSEACCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALASKA: $15,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSE…COAST ALASKA: $15,000 · OtherCOAST ALASKAIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $27,000 · Other+7 moreALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST: $65,000 · EnvironmentALASKA SU…SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $25,000 · EnvironmentSITKA CON…Earth Island Institute Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentEarth Isl…COOK INLETKEEPER: $10,000 · EnvironmentCOOK INLE…SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentLYNN CANAL CONSERVATION INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentALASKA DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentTIDELINES INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$1,063,435Other$231,000Environment$134,500Education$102,500Housing & Shelter$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC: $124,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTIDELINES INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST: $65,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetSITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOOK INLETKEEPER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOTRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetALASKA DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREACH INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCook Inlet Native Head Start: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSITKA MARITIME HERITAGE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Rasmuson FoundationThe Alaska Community …PatagoniaorgSitka Ak Permanent Ch…Alaska Conservation F…Seattle Children's Ho…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Rasmuson FoundationAK27.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Sitka Ak Permanent Charit Tr-Main · Alaska Conservation Foundation · Seattle Children's Hospital · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Skaggs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skaggs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Skaggs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Skaggs Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 27 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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