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Skb Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$459k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Health$635kArts & Culture$322kCivil Rights$300kEducation$289kSocial Science$140kYouth Development$128kHuman Services$122kAnimals$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $261k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$50,000
TAIWAN AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER OF EAST BAY (TACC-EB)$50,000
GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION$35,000
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA$20,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$20,000
SANTA MONICA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$16,000
SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS$15,000
MATHCOUNTS FOUNDATION$15,000
SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE$15,000
EAST WEST PLAYERS$15,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC$10,000
T LEAGUE RGT$10,000
USO$10,000
TEACHAAPI$10,000
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SAFE ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENT ENVIRONMENTS ( SAVE ): $5k → 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $10k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $8k → 8%MILLION LITTLE: $8k → 14%MILLION LITTLE: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $5k → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
TX

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 40 repeat orgs$568k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
27

Total granted

$1.9M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+23%

Still filing today

78%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

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

  • GL
    GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +19%
  • FA
    Formosan Association for Public Affairs
    5× · 2020–2024 · $113k · revenue +22%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • TA
    TAIWANESE AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER OF EAST BAYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +42%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -1%

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

04Your field

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.

1
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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4
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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5
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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6
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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9
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
10
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
11
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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12
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ignite and the most unlike its peers is Task Force Butler Institute. 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%36%35–55yr13%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%5%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%38%35–55yr13%23%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,919

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 87 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
31/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEYUNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEYNORTH AMERICA TAIWANESE PROFESSORS' ASSOCIATION — $83,000 · OtherNORTH AMERICA TAIWANESE PROFESSORS' ASSOCIATIONSanta Monica Education Foundation — $60,000 · OtherTAIWAN AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER OF EAST BAY (TACC-EB) — $50,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Other+55 more — $694,800 · Other+55 morePRO PUBLICA INC — $50,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA…TAIWANESE AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER OF EAST BAY — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTAIWANESE A…EAST-WEST PLAYERS INC — $46,500 · Arts & CultureEAST-WEST P…T LEAGUE RGT — $42,000 · Arts & CultureT LEAGUE RG…TAIWANESE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $39,000 · Arts & CultureTAIWANESE A…Center for Asian American Media — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA …MATHCOUNTS Foundation — $59,500 · EducationMATHCOUNTS…TAIWANESE AMERICAN CENTER OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $49,000 · EducationTAIWANESE …IGNITE — $15,000 · EducationIGNITESCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC — $15,000 · EducationSCIENCE FR…TEACHAAPI — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $10,500 · EducationAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $43,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $31,000 · Civil RightsCatholics for Choice — $9,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $6,500 · Civil RightsFormosan Association for Public Affairs — $113,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $115,000 · AnimalsEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $85,000 · Crime & LegalASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,437,800Arts & Culture$242,500Education$219,000Civil Rights$184,500Youth Development$118,000Animals$115,000Crime & Legal$105,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $115,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFormosan Association for Public Affairs — $113,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $85,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Monica Education Foundation — $60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMATHCOUNTS Foundation — $59,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER OF EAST BAY — $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN CENTER OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $49,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetEAST-WEST PLAYERS INC — $46,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $43,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetT LEAGUE RGT — $42,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTAIWANESE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $39,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $39,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH AMERICA TAIWANESE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — $29,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC — $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILLION LITTLE — $22,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGBOARD 2000 ENTERPRISES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Women's Health Network — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIGNITE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAVING INNOCENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Asian American Media — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEEPING OUR PROMISE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTask Force Butler Institute — $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholics for Choice — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREADING TO KIDS — $7,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS — $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNational Center for Science Education — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetArtists at Play Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSafe Alternatives To Violent Environments — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC — $3,500 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.

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.

Yen Chuang FoundationTides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Rockefeller Philanthr…The Ford FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…The David and Lucile …The Sobrato Family Fo…Texas Instruments Fou…ImpactassetsincAmalgamated Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Yen Chuang FoundationCA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Yen Chuang Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Skb 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Skb Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Skb 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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