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Skechers Foundation

To support programs that provide the general public with education, children with special needs, youth empowering programs, job training, fitness, health and nutrition guidance, as well as shoes and clothing.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$7.1MHuman Services$6.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.2MFood & Nutrition$685kHealth$557kEnvironment$205kPublic Benefit$150kEmployment$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $3,031,212, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,565,080 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $533,868 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $434k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION$1,002,140
TORRANCE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$236,740
MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION$200,816
HERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION$187,355
OCEANOGRAPHIC TEACHING STATIONS INC$180,000
REDONDO BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION$169,852
PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$162,199
EL SEGUNDO EDUCATION FOUNDATION$143,360
THE HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION$100,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$95,000
GOFUNDME (THE HELP MAUI RISE FUND)$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL$50,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$27,500
TSC ALLIANCE$26,100
UW PEDIATRIC TRAUMA AND BURN SERVICES$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $6.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE: $8k → 7%MYCHAL'S LEARNING PLACE: $19k → 14%RICHSTONE FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 14%MYCHAL'S LEARNING PLACE: $10k → 14%RICHSTONE FAMILY CENTER: $9k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $1.7M → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $698k → 14%GIVING SPIRIT: $5k → 14%GIVING SPIRIT: $5k → 14%SOUTH BAY POLICE AND FIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $10k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $25k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $25k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $25k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
OK
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 42 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
47

Total granted

$14M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+13%

Still filing today

81%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $327k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • TF
    THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +71% · 41% of their budget
  • HB
    HERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $916k · revenue +36%
  • PV
    PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $892k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOPE FOR HAITI INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • CC
    CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT
    one grant, 2021 · $475k · revenue -67%
  • TT
    TWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -3%
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
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
4
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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6
Long Beach State Foundation

The foundation seeks, secures and manages private support for california state university, long beach. (see schedule o)as the philanthropic foundation for the university, all donations in support of our students, faculty, programs and…

Education
7
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
8
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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9
Los Angeles Mission College Foundation

The specific purpose for which the los angeles mission college foundation has been established is to advance the college's educational and cultural goals.

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10
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
11
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
12
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is UP2US Inc; the most unlike its peers is Uncle Kory Foundation. 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

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 104 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
44/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,979,519 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION+8 more: $245,000 · Human ServicesTORRANCE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,080,974 · EducationTORRANCE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $892,086 · EducationPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATIO…MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $867,279 · EducationMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUND…SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $341,500 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCOceanographic Teaching Stations Inc: $205,000 · Education+5 more: $185,400 · EducationREDONDO BEACH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $981,572 · OtherREDONDO BEACH EDUCATIONAL FOUND…HERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $916,018 · OtherHERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDAT…EL SEGUNDO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $581,790 · OtherEL SEGUNDO EDUCATION FOUNDATIONHOPE FOR HAITI INCORPORATED: $500,000 · OtherHOPE FOR HAITI INCORPORATED+63 more: $1,642,425 · Other+63 moreCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $475,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC: $201,500 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $50,000 · PhilanthropyGIVSUM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMATT28 CHILDRENS FAMILY CORNERSTONE: $12,000 · PhilanthropyJD Finish Line Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE V FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthSUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION: $31,100 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $27,500 · HealthTHE FASHION FOOTWEAR CHARITABLE: $25,000 · HealthSTAND STRONG USA INC: $25,000 · HealthYoung Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc: $20,000 · HealthNEXTSTEP FITNESS INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCT3 FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$6,224,519Education$4,572,239Other$4,621,805Public Safety & Disaster$475,000Philanthropy$298,500Health$243,600Community Improvement$160,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,979,519 over 5y, 41% of budgetTORRANCE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,080,974 over 5y, 28% of budgetREDONDO BEACH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $981,572 over 5y, 12% of budgetHERMOSA BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $916,018 over 5y, 17% of budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $892,086 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetMANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $867,279 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetEL SEGUNDO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $581,790 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $475,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $341,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOceanographic Teaching Stations Inc: $205,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetHIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANC: $201,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF SENIOR AND SCOUT COMMUNITY: $150,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation: $61,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHINK ABILITY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetNATIONAL TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION: $31,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $29,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERMOSA BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND VISTORS BURE: $27,500 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE FASHION FOOTWEAR CHARITABLE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSTAND STRONG USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEEL KIDS FIRST FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMBX FOUNDATION INC: $20,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIVSUM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetManhattan Beach Police Officers Association: $20,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetYoung Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNEXTSTEP FITNESS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF LOS ANGELES INC: $18,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetManhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce: $17,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJIMMY MILLER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $11,782 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJD Finish Line Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Pipkin Charitable Fou…California Community …Bloomfield Family Fou…Windsong TrustThe Northrop Grumman …The Crail-Johnson Fou…Kayne Anderson Capita…Ggs Family FoundationImage Solutions Gives…The Ramesh and Kalpan…The Eisner Foundation…Western Asset Managem…
Pipkin Charitable FoundationCA25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pipkin Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Bloomfield Family Foundation · Windsong Trust · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Ggs Family Foundation · Image Solutions Gives Back · The Ramesh and Kalpana Bhatia Family Foundation · The Eisner Foundation Inc · Western Asset Management Company Charitable 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 Skechers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skechers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Community Day School Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Skechers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Skechers 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 104 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 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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