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Skin of Color Society

The Skin of Color Society is a professional dermatologic organization dedicated to promoting awareness of and excellence within the special interest area of dermatology, skin of color. Individuals with skin of color are defined by the Society as those individuals of Asian, Hispanic/Latino, African, Native American, Pacific Island…

$383k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
83%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$310k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$2.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Skin of Color Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving7$310k71%
FY20236$202k83%
FY20224$95k100%
FY20214$95k75%
FY20202$30k100%
FY20191$15k0%
FY20181$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$366kEducation$310kEmployment$50kScience & Tech$36k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
NE
MD
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$185,00050%
The Howard University$100,00020%
National Medical Association$50,00010%
Regents of the University of California at Irvine$50,0001n/a
University of Chicago$20,00010%
University of Miami$20,00010%
Henry Ford Health System$20,00010%
Duke University$15,00010%
University of Massachusetts$15,0001n/a
Trustees of Boston University$15,00010%
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All grantees of Skin of Color Society by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$185,00050%
The Howard University$100,00020%
National Medical Association$50,00010%
Regents of the University of California at Irvine$50,0001n/a
University of Chicago$20,00010%
University of Miami$20,00010%
Henry Ford Health System$20,00010%
Duke University$15,00010%
University of Massachusetts$15,0001n/a
Trustees of Boston University$15,00010%
UnionDerm$15,0001n/a

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($257k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Skin of Color Society supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohns Hopkins University: $185,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Howard University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Medical Association: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHenry Ford Health System: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 8.

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Find your warmest path to Skin of Color Society 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.

About Skin of Color Society

How much does Skin of Color Society give?
Skin of Color Society reported 8 itemized grants totaling $310,000, out of $382,549 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Skin of Color Society fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (48%), Education (41%), Employment (7%).
Who are Skin of Color Society's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Johns Hopkins University ($185k), The Howard University ($100k), National Medical Association ($50k).
Does Skin of Color Society fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Skin of Color Society based?
Skin of Color Society is based in IL.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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