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Skp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Skp Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Amg Charitable Gift Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Skp Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $93k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUZUKI SCHOOL OF NEWTON | $25,000 |
| BOSTON LYRIC OPERA | $16,500 |
| THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $16,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| BUZZARDS BAY COALITION | $10,000 |
| MANNA FOODBANK | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY8× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +94%- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +38%
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION5× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- TVTHE VIOLIN SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $100k
- BSBIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +234%
- VAVENEZUELAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +38%
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.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Boston children's chorus harnesses the power of music to connect our city's diverse communities, cultivate empathy, and inspire social inquiry.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
To build a structurally sound and musically vital ensemble which seeks to explore and present music of the 20th century. all schools, movements and styles from the turn of the century to the present day will be offered. it is the practical…
The purpose of the Vermont Philharmonic, Inc is to provide the very best live, symphonic music concerts within our means and abilities to as wide an area of Vermont audiences as feasible, to promote the appreciation of good symphonic and…
Promote music activities
Our mission is to unite vocal musicians who share the joy of learning and performing diverse repertoire. Our varied programming is designed to engage and inspire both performers and audience members. We are committed to building a richer,…
Performance and Promotion of Choral Music
The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.
The mission of the Horizon Ensemble is to enrich the artistic and cultural lives of our communities of musicians and audiences through our orchestral concerts. We serve the community of the Boston area by providing accessible musical…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Lyric Opera Company and the most unlike its peers is Venezuelan Association of Massachusetts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 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 AMG CHARITABLE GIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds SUZUKI SCHOOL OF NEWTON INC ↗
- Who funds BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds VENEZUELAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON CECILIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WAREHAM LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild 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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Skp 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Wareham Land Trust Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Boston Cecilia Inc — 19% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
- Suzuki School of Newton Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 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.
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