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Skas Foundation Inc

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.

$629k
Granted FY2023
26
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$196k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Philanthropy$1.1MReligion$423kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2023 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k16 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $439k
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$775k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yaazoru$196,202
Individual grant recipient$91,800
The OJC Fund$80,000
Chaim V'Chesed$70,900
Shemesh Ztadukah$45,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Chonen Vnosen$16,000
Ahi Ezer Yeshiva Inc$12,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
Individual grant recipient$11,800
Tova Uvrucha$7,200
The Tzur Foundation$7,200
Various$7,000
Yeshiva Darkei Emunah$6,400
Ahavas Chesed$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Bnei Yerushalayim: $5k → 14%Shemesh Ztadukah: $45k → 14%Chevrat Pinto: $5k → 17%Mosdos Toldas Ahaon: $92k → 20%Yaazoru: $196k → 11%Ahavas Yerusholaim: $500 → 14%Ohr Hatalmud: $3k → 14%Chevrat Pinto: $5k → 17%Mosdos Toldas Ahaon: $80k → 20%The Tzur Foundation: $7k → 11%Yeshiva Darkei Emunah: $6k → 14%Chevrat Pinto: $4k → 17%Mosdos Toldas Ahaon: $36k → 20%Kol Aryeh: $5k → 11%Mifal Tzedakah Vchesed: $25k → 20%Ahi Ezer Yeshiva Inc: $12k → 20%Cong Yetev Lev: $24k → 20%Tova Uvrucha: $7k → 20%SEE ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $499k → 20%Cong Tefilo Ledovid: $181k → 20%Cong Tefilo Ledovid: $100k → 20%Cong Tefilo Ledovid: $100k → 20%Cong Tefilo Ledovid: $30k → 20%Chonen Vnosen: $16k → 20%Bais Yosef: $12k → 20%The OJC Fund: $80k → 20%Beer Hachesed: $12k → 20%UTA of Boro Park: $5k → 20%Various: $7k → 20%Cong Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed: $4k → 20%Elef Hamagen: $4k → 20%UTA of Boro Park: $2k → 20%Tehilas Yitzchok Loyev: $2k → 20%Cong Ahavas Tzdokah Vchesed: $100 → 20%Bnei Yitzchok of Vorka: $1k → 20%Ahavas Chesed: $5k → 20%Chaim V'Chesed: $71k → 20%Chaim V'Chesed: $4k → 20%Ohel Torah: $3k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$717k · 6 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$717k
$24k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $373k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2021–2022 · $411k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $208k
  • CV
    CHAIM V CHESED
    2× · 2022–2023 · $75k

Funded once

  • CY
    Cong Yetev Lev
    one grant, 2022 · $24k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

4 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $410,529 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $207,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHAIM V CHESED — $74,500 · OtherCHAIM V CHESEDSHEMESH ZTADUKAH — $45,000 · Other+21 more — $172,930 · Other+21 moreYAAZORU INC — $196,202 · ReligionYAAZORU INCTZUR FOUNDATION INC — $7,200 · ReligionTHE OJC FUND — $80,000 · Education
Other$910,759Religion$203,402Education$80,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYAAZORU INC — $196,202 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE OJC FUND — $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTZUR FOUNDATION INC — $7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 YAAZORU INC
  • Who funds THE OJC FUND
  • Who funds TZUR FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Ohel Torah

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.

The Ojc FundNY18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Bais Ephraim Charitable Foundation Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Skas Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Skas Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Skas Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $499k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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