Virginia · Private foundation
Skewes Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $281k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Skewes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $281k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $304k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $300k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $220k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $237k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $295k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $237k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $245k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Dental Virginia Inc | $203,300 | 3 | 3% |
| City of Mullens Foundation Inc | $117,915 | 4 | 57% |
| Big Creek People in Action Inc | $115,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Stop the Hurt Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Center for Christian Action Inc | $60,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Bluefield University | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Historic Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer Park Inc | $37,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Bluefield Wv Championship Football Games | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beyond Wishes Therapeutic Riding Program Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 37% |
| Anawalt Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | $26,099 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 104 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Skewes Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc · K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Beckley Area Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Community Foundation of the Virginias Inc · United Way of Southern Wv Inc · West Virginia First Foundation Inc · The Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable Foundation · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
How this is measured
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About Skewes Family Foundation
- How much does Skewes Family Foundation give?
- Skewes Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $281,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Skewes Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (14%), Community Improvement (12%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Skewes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mission Dental Virginia Inc ($203k), City of Mullens Foundation Inc ($118k), Big Creek People in Action Inc ($115k).
- Does Skewes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Skewes Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Skewes Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hugh I Shott Jr Foundation Inc, K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust, Thompson Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Skewes Family Foundation based?
- Skewes Family Foundation is based in VA.
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