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Arizona · Public charity

Sky Island Alliance

We work to connect people, wildlife, and lands across the u.s.-mexico border through the use of science, advocacy, educational activities, community engagement, and on-the-ground conservation initiatives. Our main activities include protecting flowing water at springs and streams; conserving transboundary connectivity and habitat for…

$341k
Granted FY2018
2
Grants FY2018
2
Organizations funded FY2018
50%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$320,945
Largest grant, FY2018
$320,945
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 50% of the organizations Sky Island Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20182$341k50%
FY20172$70kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Environment$411k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection$320,9451n/a
University of Arizona Foundation$59,10420%
Watershed Management Group Inc$31,00012%

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About Sky Island Alliance

How much does Sky Island Alliance give?
Sky Island Alliance reported 2 grants totaling $340,949 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Sky Island Alliance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are Sky Island Alliance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection ($321k), University of Arizona Foundation ($59k), Watershed Management Group Inc ($31k).
Does Sky Island Alliance fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Sky Island Alliance based?
Sky Island Alliance is based in AZ.

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 3 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 2018, released 2018. 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 $1k 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 FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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