Kansas · Private foundation
Skillbuilders Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $568k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $266,474
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Skillbuilders Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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 | 21 | $568k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $427k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $367k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $156k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $123k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $142k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $158k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $83k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildwood Outdoor Education Center | $893,974 | 8 | 19% |
| Womens Employment Network | $141,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Pawsperity Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Amethyst Place Inc | $135,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Kansas City Community Gardens Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Interurban Arthouse | $45,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Rightfully Sewn Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Giving the Basics Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Minddrive Incorporated | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Northeast Community Center | $28,451 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($237k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Skillbuilders Fund supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Sunderland Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc
How this is measured
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About Skillbuilders Fund
- How much does Skillbuilders Fund give?
- Skillbuilders Fund reported 21 grants totaling $567,974 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Skillbuilders Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (44%), Human Services (16%), Employment (12%).
- Who are Skillbuilders Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wildwood Outdoor Education Center ($894k), Womens Employment Network ($141k), Pawsperity Inc ($140k).
- Does Skillbuilders Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Skillbuilders Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Skillbuilders Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Oppenstein Brothers Foundation, The H & R Block Foundation.
- Where is Skillbuilders Fund based?
- Skillbuilders Fund is based in KS.
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