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Sky High for Kids Inc

Sky high's mission is to bring communities together to provide comfort, fund research and save lives of those fighting pediatric cancer and other life threatening conditions.

$5.5M
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Health$24MEducation$25kPhilanthropy$20kHuman Services$11k
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $5,273,241, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,450,984 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $177,743 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+3 grants · $5.0M
$40,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,620,048
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,071,133
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC$280,000
COVENANT HEALTH FOUNDATION$200,000
SAINT FRANCIS HEALTH SYSTEM INC$40,000
THE CURETIVITY FOUNDATION$25,000
CHILDREN WITH HAIRLOSS INC$10,000
BIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES$10,000
BEANIES FOR ST JUDE$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON$7,060
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%STILL STRONG FOUNDATION: $74k → 7%CHILDREN WITH HAIRLOSS INC: $10k → 10%CHILDREN WITH HAIRLOSS INC: $9k → 10%CHILDREN WITH HAIRLOSS INC: $6k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
TN
OK
LA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 41% of Sky High for Kids Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 83%.

Sky High for Kids Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 12 repeat orgs$460k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$24M
$453k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+49%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +145%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +105%
  • BL
    BIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $307k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +109%
  • SR
    SIEGEL RARE NEUROIMMUNE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +23%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +49%
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
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
2
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
3
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Children's Hospital Association
Health
6
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
7
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
8
Austin Wade Foundation

Children battling cancer

Unclassified
9
Curing Kids Cancer Inc

The Organization was formed in 2005 and is dedicated to changing the world of childhood cancer by bringing awareness to childhood cancer and by funding the development of treatments, primarily in the United States, that are more effective…

Human Services
10
Chance for Hope Foundation

The mission of the chance for hope foundation is to provide support services for children with cancer and their families, funding for pediatric cancer research and treatment, and educational resources to the general public regarding…

Unclassified
11
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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12
Shriners Hospital for Children
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Joncade Thomas Clemons Memorial Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

25 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,074,595 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCTexas Children's Hospital: $10,016,715 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalRonald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc: $2,386,320 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc+11 more: $1,307,364 · Health+11 moreBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES: $307,000 · Human ServicesSTILL STRONG FOUNDATION: $74,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC: $24,674 · Human ServicesHUNT WITH HEART INCORPORATED: $19,176 · Human ServicesBEANIES FOR ST JUDE: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTruscott Community Foundation: $11,000 · PhilanthropyROSS GRANGER MEMORIAL FUND: $25,000 · Public BenefitBLESS A CHILD FOUNDATION: $10,800 · EducationTHE JONCADE THOMAS CLEMONS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 · EducationANGELS AND CAUSES INC: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$23,784,994Human Services$424,850Philanthropy$51,000Public Benefit$25,000Education$20,800Recreation & Sports$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,074,595 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $10,016,715 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc: $2,386,320 over 7y, 24% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $417,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES: $307,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $305,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Curetivity Foundation: $147,160 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSIEGEL RARE NEUROIMMUNE ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis Health System Inc: $79,150 over 3y, 77% of budgetSTILL STRONG FOUNDATION: $74,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetBEANIES FOR ST JUDE: $40,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetDAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $29,919 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetROSS GRANGER MEMORIAL FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetCHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC: $24,674 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHUNT WITH HEART INCORPORATED: $19,176 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetANGELS AND CAUSES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCarson Leslie Foundation: $12,075 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTruscott Community Foundation: $11,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetFARIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JONCADE THOMAS CLEMONS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $7,060 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Texas Children's Hosp…Enterprise Holdings F…Shell USA Company Fou…Assurant FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Texas Children's HospitalTX15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Children's Hospital · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Assurant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 24 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $6.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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