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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.

$383k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$366kEducation$310kEmployment$50kScience & Tech$36k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $310,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $382,549 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $72,549 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Johns Hopkins$50,000
National Institute of Arthritis & Muskosk$50,000
Univ of Calif Irvine$50,000
Howard University$50,000
National Medical Association$50,000
Univ of Chicago$20,000
Univ of Miami$20,000
Johns Hopkins$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Temple Health: $50k → 22%Univ of Calif Irvine: $50k → 10%Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $15k → 17%Howard University College of Medicine: $50k → 14%Univ of Miami: $20k → 15%Henry Ford Health System: $20k → 21%Johns Hopkins University: $70k → 14%National Institute of Arthritis & Muskosk: $50k → 8%Johns Hopkins University: $15k → 19%Candrice Heath MD dba Heath Health LLC: $6k → 22%UnionDerm: $15k → 17%Howard University: $50k → 14%Johns Hopkins: $50k → 14%National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases: $50k → 8%Johns Hopkins University: $15k → 19%Howard University College of Medicine: $50k → 14%Johns Hopkins: $20k → 14%National Medical Association: $50k → 8%Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: $15k → 19%Univ of Chicago: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
NE
MD
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
7
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Temple Health: $50,000 · OtherTemple HealthNational Institute of Arthritis & Muskosk: $50,000 · OtherNational Institute of Arthritis & MuskoskHoward University College of Medicine: $50,000 · OtherHoward University College of MedicineNational Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases: $50,000 · OtherNational Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & …REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $50,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINEUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $15,000 · OtherUMASS Medical School: $15,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherNew York University School of Medicine: $15,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $15,000 · OtherUnionDerm: $15,000 · Other+2 more: $12,050 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYUniversity of Chicago: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Miami: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiDUKE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationNational Medical Association: $50,000 · HealthNational M…HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $20,000 · HealthHENRY FORD…
Other$352,050Education$340,000Health$70,000

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

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
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.

  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds National Medical Association ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Skin of Color Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skin of Color Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Skin of Color Society?

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.

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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