· Public charity
Skoll Fund
The SKOLL FUND is a supporting organization associated with silicon valley community foundation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 147 grants below total $51,737,468 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $56,133,469 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,396,001 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k37 grants · $4.1M
- $250k+46 grants · $46M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $4,500,000 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $3,177,000 |
| THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION | $3,000,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $2,240,000 |
| MUSO INC | $2,015,000 |
| EARTHENABLE INC | $2,015,000 |
| HEALTHY KIDS BRIGHTER FUTURE INCORPORATED | $2,015,000 |
| FINANCING ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH | $2,000,000 |
| RIGHTS AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC | $2,000,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $1,500,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR VALUING IMPACTS INC | $1,500,000 |
| CONTINA IMPACT | $1,050,000 |
| EQUIS INSTITUTE | $1,000,000 |
| AVINA AMERICAS INC | $1,000,000 |
| BUILD HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC | $1,000,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $10.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Skoll Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
147 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M 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
- PGPANORAMA GLOBAL3× · 2021–2024 · $7.6M · revenue +47%
- EGECHOING GREEN INC3× · 2020–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +32% · 62% of their budget
- MMMEDIC MOBILE INC4× · 2017–2023 · $5.6M · revenue +90% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- MIMeedan Incone grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue -13% · 33% of their budget
- SFSAVELIFE FOUNDATION USAone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue -14%
- IIID INSIGHT INCone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue -40%
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.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Build Health International Inc. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
394 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. 394 of the 401 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIC MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LEADS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds B LAB COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHENABLE INC ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE GIRLS ↗
- Who funds FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Meedan Inc ↗
- Who funds WITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGEREACH ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAIR COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHTS AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVELIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- Who funds FINANCING ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MUSO INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ID INSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds ARMMAN-USA ↗
- Who funds The ONE Campaign ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Skoll Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gates Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Rockefeller Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Mulago 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 organization 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.
- Youthbuild Global Inc — 69% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Walden Woods Project — 6% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.