How much did SKOLL FUND grant in FY2024?

SKOLL FUND reported 147 grants totaling $56,133,469 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

SKOLL FUND

Catalyze transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world's most pressing problems.

$56M

Granted FY2024

147

Grants

Communities

$4.5M

Largest

01What you fund

0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

International$51MEnvironment$49MPhilanthropy$30MHealth$28MEducation$25MPublic Benefit$14MHuman Services$12MArts & Culture$9.1MCommunity Improvement$8.8MOther$35M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

wmcwomens mediavalley educationchildren'ssan josebuild technologytechnology defend

2019

directschartergradesdowntown preparatorypreparatory dcpdcp preparesprepares first-generation

2020

covid responseseriesreproductivezenpbhablackdrivers

2021

every girlfinancefair tradepolicy advocacyarmsstrengtheninglgbtq

2022

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2023

civil participationarts cultureuscprofessionalinnovativesciencesbest

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 147 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k62 grants · $1.2M
$50k–250k37 grants · $4.1M
$250k+46 grants · $46M

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$946M

Total assets

Largest grants

MAYO CLINIC$4,500,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$3,177,000
THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION$3,000,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$2,240,000
EARTHENABLE INC$2,015,000
HEALTHY KIDS BRIGHTER FUTURE INCORPORATED$2,015,000
MUSO INC$2,015,000
RIGHTS AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC$2,000,000
FINANCING ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH$2,000,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,500,000
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR VALUING IMPACTS INC$1,500,000
CONTINA IMPACT$1,050,000
VOTERUNLEAD$1,000,000
EQUIS INSTITUTE$1,000,000
AVINA AMERICAS INC$1,000,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $10.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$191M · 160 repeat orgs$70M to everyone else

160 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

160

181

Total granted

$191M

$52M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+58%

Still filing today

99%

97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

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

New Venture Fund
7× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +85%
TA
THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION
2× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +99% · 38% of their budget
MC
MAYO CLINIC
3× · 2018–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +29%

Funded once

TIDES FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $13M · revenue +23%
MI
Meedan Incgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue +445% · 33% of their budget
SF
Savelife Foundation USAgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +226%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

International Peace Institute Inc

The international peace institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen inclusive multilateralism for a more peaceful and sustainable planet. through its research, convening, and strategic advising, ipi provides…

International

International Aids Vaccine

Translate scientific discoveries into affordable, globally accessible public health solutions

International

Accion International

Accion is a global nonprofit on a mission to create a fair and inclusive economy. we are a leading early-stage investor in fintech for inclusion and experts in the digital transformation of financial service providers, with decades of…

International

World Resources Institute

To create change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive.

International

International Budget Partnership

Ibp works to make public finance systems in developing countries more open & accountable to citizens.

International

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

A people-centered approach to the conservation of gorillas and their habitats in Africa

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Pathfinder International

Pathfinder builds lasting and trusted local partnerships to strengthen health systems, forging resilient pathways to sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.

International

Global Greengrants Fund

Mobilize resources for communities worldwide to protect our shared planet.

Environment

Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

—

Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

Meii works to stimulate economic growth and create jobs in the middle east and north africa.

Community Improvement

Devworks International

Devworks international aims to make a lasting difference in the lives of millions of people living in poverty.

Human Services

The International Institute for

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Room to Read. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.3%1/401

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,164

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

394 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

392/394

Grantees still filing

308/394

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

International$50,545,720Environment$49,235,000Philanthropy$29,796,786Health$27,830,000Education$25,394,085Public Benefit$13,759,000Human Services$11,697,500Other$52,589,941

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.

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.

The Skoll FoundationCA224.6× affinity117 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Skoll Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Climateworks Foundation

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 organisation SKOLL FUND 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

16get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CDI International Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 201803105 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CDI International Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Skoll Fund?

Find your warmest path to Skoll Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SKOLL FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

394 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Skoll Fund?

More from the funding graph

SKOLL FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

394 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Skoll Fund?

More from the funding graph