· Public charity
Skoll Fund
The SKOLL FUND is a supporting organization associated with silicon valley community foundation.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| HEALTHY KIDS BRIGHTER FUTURE INCORPORATED | $2,015,000 |
| MUSO INC | $2,015,000 |
| EARTHENABLE INC | $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 |
| VOTERUNLEAD | $1,000,000 |
| AVINA AMERICAS INC | $1,000,000 |
| EQUIS INSTITUTE | $1,000,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Skoll Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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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…
How this is measured
394 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. 394 of the 401 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SAVELIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds FINANCING ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Skoll Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skoll Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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