California · Public charity
Sky's the Limit Fund
Our mission is to make wilderness therapy, and nature-based therapy programs affordable to families of adolescents and young adults struggling with acute mental health conditions, regardless of their socioeconomic status. We believe in the transformative power of the outdoors to foster connections, build resilience, and support mental…
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $39,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $192,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Sky's the Limit Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $1.0M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $975k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.3M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.8M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $761k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $688k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $548k | 18% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $407k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anasazi Foundation | $939,015 | 9 | 4% |
| Pacific Quest Foundation | $177,350 | 4 | n/a |
| Voyageur Outward Bound School | $50,568 | 2 | 1% |
| Redcliff Discovery Oxbow Foundation | $30,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Outward Bound California | $6,480 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorado Outward Bound School | $6,035 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.2M), not named here.
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sky's the Limit Fund
- How much does Sky's the Limit Fund give?
- Sky's the Limit Fund reported 17 itemized grants totaling $1,015,693, out of $1,052,032 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Sky's the Limit Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (97%), Health (3%).
- Who are Sky's the Limit Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Anasazi Foundation ($939k), Pacific Quest Foundation ($177k), Voyageur Outward Bound School ($51k).
- Does Sky's the Limit Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sky's the Limit Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Sky's the Limit Fund based?
- Sky's the Limit Fund is based in CA.
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