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Sky Foundation Inc

Sky Foundation, Inc.

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$762kScience & Tech$404kEducation$343k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$726k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$50,000
THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOS$50,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUITE$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOS: $50k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%University of California: $50k → 10%SANFORD BURNHAM PREB MEDICAL: $51k → 11%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETW: $100k → 14%New York University: $50k → 17%University of Michigan: $86k → 10%HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $100k → 21%University of North Carolina: $50k → 13%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUITE: $50k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%Salk Institute for Biological: $50k → 11%University of Michigan: $60k → 10%Karmanos Cancer Institute: $71k → 21%THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOS: $50k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $38k → 11%Salk Institute for Biological: $50k → 11%University of Michigan: $50k → 10%HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $53k → 21%THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%SANFORD BURNHAM PREB MEDICAL: $35k → 11%University of Michigan: $50k → 10%Karmanos Cancer Institute: $45k → 21%SANFORD BURNHAM PREB MEDICAL: $35k → 11%University of Michigan: $20k → 10%HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 21%University of Michigan: $18k → 10%Karmanos Cancer Institute: $22k → 21%HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 7 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-1%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    4× · 2019–2023 · $253k · revenue +50%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    4× · 2018–2024 · $163k · revenue +40%
  • TS
    The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    2× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -19%
  • Vanderbilt University
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • NY
    New York University
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Van Andel Research Institute

Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.

Health
9
Riordan Clinic Inc

To provide medical research and education and to serve in ways that stimulates an epidemic of health among those interested in improving their well-being.

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10
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
11
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

—
12
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Salk Institute for Biological Studies; the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $253,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $138,000 · HealthBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTESANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $120,985 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUT…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $100,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INCDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $284,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGA…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $100,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAP…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCIS…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $163,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTS…Vanderbilt University: $50,000 · EducationVanderbilt Universi…New York University: $50,000 · EducationNew York UniversityThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $100,000 · Science & Tech
Health$661,985Other$484,000Education$263,000Science & Tech$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $253,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $163,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $138,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $120,985 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sky Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sky Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sky Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sky Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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