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SKM Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k19 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Overseas Campus Ministry | $14,000 |
| Remnant Westside Church | $10,000 |
| Bread of Life Church | $10,000 |
| CESNA | $7,000 |
| Peninsula Education Foundation | $5,966 |
| Dr's Voice Foundation | $5,000 |
| Calif Institute of Technology | $4,000 |
| Western Seminary | $3,000 |
| US Int'l Music Competition | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Amahoro International | $2,000 |
| True Word Training Center | $2,000 |
| St Mark's Lutheran Church | $1,500 |
| US Oriental Cultural Assoc | $1,000 |
| Au Sable Institute | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PVPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +6%
- AIAMAHORO INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +65%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- CSCHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +224%
- AIAFRICA INLAND MISSION INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $3k
- NNAFTHAAone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of our school can be divided into 4 areas:1.To cultivate students exegesis & preaching of the Scriptures rightly based on truth found in Bible. 2.To edify Bible study talents to teach Bible and lead Bible study as the focus of…
To Train Christian Leaders and Plant Churches in China
ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally
Religious
Pastor training
Christian Ministry Activities
Charitable, religious & educational
Help churches in china fulfill the great commission through training emerging christian leaders. train leaders in evangelism, evangelistic preaching, pastoral care and leadership through seminaries and bible school in china. distribute…
Equip Christian workers with the biblical knowledge, Christian character, servant leadership, and ministry skills.
Presbyterian theological seminary in america exists to servce the korean presbyterian church abroad (kpca) and the kingdom of god by equipping students for effective service to god, his church, and the world he sends us to evangelize.
Training pastors in third world countries
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Au Sable Institute and the most unlike its peers is Peking University Alumni Association of S Ca. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMAHORO INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHINA SOUL FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds True Word Training Center ↗
- Who funds Logos Evangelical Seminary ↗
- Who funds IBREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds Kerith Ravine Ministry ↗
- Who funds AU SABLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds PEKING UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF S CA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization SKM Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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