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Skipper Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
0172% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$12kHealth$10kReligion$8kInternational$6kEducation$5kAnimals$3kFood & Nutrition$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$116k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$7,500
JUVENILE DIABETES$2,629
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PUFFBALL PARADISE RABBIT SANCTUARY$1,000
FORSYTH COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$1,000
MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH$1,000
HAYWOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS$1,000
BCS FOUNDATION$1,000
MOUNT MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
REYNOLDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$1,000
TRIAD HONOR FLIGHT$1,000
ABCCM$1,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$1,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY: $500 → 15%CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY: $1k → 15%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

MN
NY
NJ
VA
MD
AZ
NC
AL
GA
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23k · 6 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
19

Total granted

$23k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationReligionPublic BenefitAnimalsOther
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

  • RV
    REYNOLDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +1%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • OU
    OAKLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    2× · 2023–2025 · $3k

Funded once

  • D
    DIABETES
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +10%
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

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
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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2
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
3
WakeMed

The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.

Health
4
Carolina Medicorp Enterprises Inc

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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5
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
6
Woodlawn-Sevier Voluntary Fire Dept

To provide fire protection and emergency medical responders to the community in a five mile radius of fire department in woodlawn-seiver area marion mcdowell county nc

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Ryan Saves Lives
Health
10
Savannah Volunteer Fire Company

Volunteer fire & emergency services to protect the community.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
12
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopekids Inc; the most unlike its peers is Allianz Foundation for North America. 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

15 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. 15 of the 47 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDIABETES: $3,000 · OtherDIABETESJUVENILE DIABETES: $2,629 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETESIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherOAKLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherMT MORIAH BAPTIST CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherFORSYTH COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · Other+28 more: $21,687 · Other+28 moreREYNOLDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $9,402 · Public Safety & DisasterREYNOLDS VOLUNT…WALKERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $500 · Public Safety & DisasterSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $6,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN…American Heart Association Inc: $2,500 · HealthHOPEKIDS INC: $1,000 · HealthMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH: $1,000 · HealthSHORT THE SQUIRREL INC: $1,500 · EducationAMERICA ON TECH INC: $1,015 · EducationCRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesALLIANZ FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICA: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$48,316Public Safety & Disaster$9,902Religion$6,000Health$4,500Education$2,515Human Services$1,500Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREYNOLDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $9,402 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHORT THE SQUIRREL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA ON TECH INC: $1,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANZ FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRIAD HONOR FLIGHT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEADOWS OF DAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWALKERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $500 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 REYNOLDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHORT THE SQUIRREL INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA ON TECH INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANZ FOUNDATION FOR NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds TRIAD HONOR FLIGHT ↗
  • Who funds PUFFBALL PARADISE RABBIT SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEADOWS OF DAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds WALKERTOWN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗

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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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