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Skidmore Owings & Merrill Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$205k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$390kScience & Tech$324kCommunity Improvement$25kArts & Culture$20kSocial Science$3k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUNDATIO$35,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUND$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUNDATION$20,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & ME$15,000
ELIZABETH CLAYPOOL CO SKIDMORE OWIN$14,000
UNIVERSITAT POLITECHINA DE CATALUNYA CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUNDAT$11,024
EMMELEA SCHATZ CO SKIDMORE OWINGS M$10,000
NOELLE ROBINSON CO SKIDMORE OWINGS$10,000
LAUREN JIAN CO SKIDMORE OWINGS MERR$10,000
UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUNDATION$8,236
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUNDATION$5,000
WILLIAM PYLE CO SKIDMORE OWINGS MER$5,000
MAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE LA CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERILL FOU$5,000
TULANE UNIVERSITY CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUNDATION$5,000
ANTONIA PACHECO CO SKIDMORE OWINGS$5,000
02The need
03

Where the grant dollars land

Across the US and around the world.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
PA
CT
CA
MD
NC
LA
TX
How this is measured
Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the 990 filings.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$139k · 6 repeat orgs$624k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
48

Total granted

$139k
$433k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

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

  • PF
    PRESIDENT & FELLOWS HARVARD COLLEGE CO SKIDMORE OWINGS MERRILL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $40k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON CO SKIDMORE OWINGS MERRILL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k
  • YS
    YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k

Funded once

  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • II
    ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CO SKIDMORE OWINGS MERRILL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $31k
  • UO
    UNIVERISTY OF THE ARTS LONDON CO SKIDMORE OWINGS MERRILL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $22k
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
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESIDENT & FELLOWS HARVARD COLLEGE CO SKIDMORE OWINGS MERRILL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUNDATIO: $35,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON CO SKIDMORE OWINGS MERRILL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY CO SKIDMORE OWINGS & MERRILL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CO SKIDMORE OWINGS MERRILL FOUNDATION: $31,000 · Other+68 more: $586,944 · Other+68 more
Other$762,944

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Skidmore Owings & Merrill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Skidmore Owings & Merrill 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 73 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-PF 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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