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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$192k
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 2025.

Youth Development$7.2MHealth$226k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $1,015,693, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,052,032 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $36,339 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $263k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $740k
$39,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND NATURE THERAPEUTIC PROGRAMS LLC$192,000
ANASAZI FOUNDATION$161,775
BLUE RIDGE THERAPEUTIC WILDERNESS$123,966
ELEMENTS WILDERNESS PROGRAM LLC$123,500
BACK 2 BASICS SOBER LIVING LLC$83,000
Individual grant recipient$56,200
THREE PEAKS ASCENT$48,169
VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$44,068
Individual grant recipient$39,000
EMBARK BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE CO FIRST LIGHT WILDERNESS THERAPY$29,000
REDCLIFF ASCENT$25,000
EVOKE THERAPY PROGRAMS$23,000
Individual grant recipient$21,000
PACIFIC QUEST$17,500
LEGACY TREATMENT CENTER$16,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ANASAZI FOUNDATION: $187k → 11%BACK 2 BASICS SOBER LIVING LLC: $83k → 16%BLUEFIRE WILDERNESS THERAPY: $120k → 11%BLUE FIRE WILDERNESS: $66k → 13%EMBARK BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE CO FIRST LIGHT WILDERNESS THERAPY: $82k → 18%PACIFIC QUEST: $77k → 15%NEW VISION WILDERNESS: $114k → 11%DESCHUTES WILDERNESS THERAPY: $311k → 10%TRAILS CAROLINA: $108k → 13%SUWS OF THE CAROLINAS: $136k → 16%ASPIRO ADVENTURE: $169k → 8%SECOND NATURE THERAPEUTIC PROGRAMS LLC: $192k → 14%BLUE RIDGE THERAPEUTIC WILDERNESS: $124k → 13%OPEN SKY WILDERNESS THERAPY: $231k → 12%TRUE NORTH WILDERNSS: $125k → 9%ANASAZI FOUNDATION: $162k → 11%BLUE FIRE WILDERNESS: $73k → 11%NEW VISION WILDERNESS: $85k → 11%NEW VISION WILDERNESS THERAPY: $152k → 10%TRAILS CAROLINA: $79k → 13%SUWS OF THE CAROLINAS: $85k → 16%ASPIRO ADVENTURE: $94k → 8%BLUE RIDGE THERAPEUTIC WILDERNESS: $107k → 13%OPEN SKY WILDERNESS THERAPY: $197k → 12%TRUE NORTH WILDERNESS: $123k → 9%ANASAZI FOUNDATION: $111k → 11%BLUEFIRE WILDERNESS THERAPY: $67k → 11%DESCHUTES WILDERNESS THERAPY: $147k → 10%SUWS OF THE CAROLINAS: $71k → 16%ASPIRO ADVENTURE: $73k → 8%OUTBACK THERAPEUTIC EXPEDITIONS: $72k → 8%EVOKE THERAPY PROGRAMS: $150k → 10%BLUE RIDGE THERAPEUTIC WILDERNESS: $100k → 13%OPEN SKY WILDERNESS THERAPY: $154k → 12%TRUE NORTH WILDERNESS: $89k → 9%ANASAZI FOUNDATION: $107k → 11%NEW VISION WILDERNESS THERAPY: $94k → 10%OUTBACK THERAPEUTIC EXPEDITIONS: $68k → 8%EVOKE THERAPY PROGRAMS: $107k → 10%BLUE RIDGE THERAPEUTIC WILDERNSS: $97k → 13%TRUE NORTH WILDERNSS: $75k → 9%ANASAZI FOUNDATION: $104k → 11%EVOKE THERAPY PROGRAMS: $90k → 10%TRUE NORTH WILDERNESS: $72k → 9%ANASAZI FOUNDATION: $103k → 11%ELEMENTS WILDERNESS PROGRAM LLC: $124k → 8%ANASAZI FOUNDATION: $96k → 11%ANASAZI FOUNDATION: $70k → 11%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

ME
VT
ID
MN
WI
OR
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NC
HI
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 25 repeat orgs$582k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
5

Total granted

$6.9M
$189k

Still filing today

16%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $392k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AF
    ANASAZI FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $939k · revenue -37%
  • OS
    OPEN SKY WILDERNESS THERAPY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $905k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $458k

Funded once

  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE THERAPEUTIC WILDERNSS
    one grant, 2022 · $97k
  • EB
    EMBARK BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE CO DESCHUTES WILDERNESS THERAPY
    one grant, 2024 · $43k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $32k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 36 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPEN SKY WILDERNESS THERAPY: $904,537 · OtherOPEN SKY WILDERNESS THERAPYIndividual grant recipient: $457,942 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSUWS OF THE CAROLINAS: $433,776 · OtherSUWS OF THE CAROLINASIndividual grant recipient: $404,538 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEVOKE THERAPY PROGRAMS: $370,407 · OtherEVOKE THERAPY PROGRAMSIndividual grant recipient: $370,365 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBLUE RIDGE THERAPEUTIC WILDERNESS: $331,798 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $309,961 · OtherNEW VISION WILDERNESS THERAPY: $277,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $266,145 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $252,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $242,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $216,250 · Other+17 more: $1,399,723 · Other+17 moreANASAZI FOUNDATION: $939,015 · HealthANASAZI FOUNDATIO…PACIFIC QUEST FOUNDATION: $177,350 · HealthPACIFIC QUEST FOU…+1 more: $30,500 · HealthVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $50,568 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $6,035 · EnvironmentOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA: $6,480 · Recreation & Sports
Other$6,237,842Health$1,146,865Environment$56,603Recreation & Sports$6,480

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANASAZI FOUNDATION: $939,015 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetVOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $50,568 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREDCLIFF DISCOVERY OXBOW FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds ANASAZI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC QUEST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOYAGEUR OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds REDCLIFF DISCOVERY OXBOW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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's the Limit Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sky's the Limit Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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