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Skidmore College

The education of predominantly full-time undergraduates, a diverse population of talented students who are eager to engage actively in the learning process. The college seeks to prepare liberally educated graduates to continue their quest for knowledge and to make the choices required of informed, responsible citizens. Skidmore faculty…

$77M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$34k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Skidmore College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$34k0%
FY20246$73k33%
FY20235$50k40%
FY20228$80k75%
FY20214$20k100%
FY20201$20k0%
FY20191$20k0%
FY20171$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$257kHuman Services$20kCommunity Improvement$10kEducation$10kEnvironment$10kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Benefit$5kYouth Development$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc$100,00040%
Radial Arts Inc$65,0004n/a
CREATE Community Studios$28,00036%
Black Dimensions in Art Inc$25,0002n/a
Saratoga Regional YMCA$20,00010%
The Greenfield Review Literary Center Inc$20,00034%
Media Alliance Inc$14,00033%
Kanatsiohareke Inc$10,00028%
Green Education & Legal Fund Inc$10,0002n/a
North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Skidmore College by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc$100,00040%
Radial Arts Inc$65,0004n/a
CREATE Community Studios$28,00036%
Black Dimensions in Art Inc$25,0002n/a
Saratoga Regional YMCA$20,00010%
The Greenfield Review Literary Center Inc$20,00034%
Media Alliance Inc$14,00033%
Kanatsiohareke Inc$10,00028%
Green Education & Legal Fund Inc$10,0002n/a
North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association$5,0001n/a
Stomping Ground Camp Inc$5,00010%
Endangered Language Alliance Inc$5,00014%
Peoples Voice Cafe Inc$5,0001n/a
Project Pericles Inc$5,00011%
Rested Root Corp$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Skidmore College supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaratoga Performing Arts Center Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCREATE Community Studios: $28,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetSaratoga Regional YMCA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Greenfield Review Literary Center Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetMedia Alliance Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetKanatsiohareke Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetStomping Ground Camp Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEndangered Language Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetProject Pericles Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Keeler Motor Car Company Charitable Foundation · Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Skidmore College

How much does Skidmore College give?
Skidmore College reported 2 itemized grants totaling $34,000, out of $77,224,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Skidmore College fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (80%), Human Services (6%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are Skidmore College's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc ($100k), Radial Arts Inc ($65k), CREATE Community Studios ($28k).
Does Skidmore College fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Skidmore College?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation, Keeler Motor Car Company Charitable Foundation.
Where is Skidmore College based?
Skidmore College is based in NY.

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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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