Texas · Private foundation
Sketch Foundation
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.
- $270k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Sketch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $270k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $190k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $170k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $175k | 82% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $167k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $140k | 90% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $46k | 91% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treehouse | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| School's Out Washington | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange County | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Access Books | $35,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Foodcorps Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children of the Night | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Field Hockey Federation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 14% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($458k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sketch Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sketch Foundation
- How much does Sketch Foundation give?
- Sketch Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sketch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (16%), Education (15%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Sketch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Treehouse ($75k), School's Out Washington ($60k), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc ($50k).
- Does Sketch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sketch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sketch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Sketch Foundation based?
- Sketch Foundation is based in TX.
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