· Private foundation
Sky View Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $382k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMIGRANT TRAILS GREENWAY TRUST VIA FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $900,000 |
| PLACER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SPORTFISHING PROTECTION ALLIANCE | $160,000 |
| NORTHERN SIERRA PARTNERSHIPCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $72,363 |
| FIDELITY GIFT TRUST | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Sky View Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PLPLACER LAND TRUST6× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue ×17
- TDTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST2× · 2018–2019 · $500k · revenue +6%
- PNPLACER NATURE CENTER2× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- MAMountain Area Preservation Foundationone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -30% · 30% of their budget
- HIHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUSTone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue 0%
- COCOUNTY OF PLACERone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
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.
Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
The Santa Clara River Conservancy represents the diverse interests of the Santa Clara River, from the flood plain to the highest tributaries, and seeks to secure, sustain, and manage significant lands and waters that provide habitat for…
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.
The Planning and Conservaton League is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that serves as the lobbying arm of environmental community -- passing, enforcing, and protecting laws and initiatives that safeguard our environment and communities.
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
The Siskiyou Land Conservancy is a state and federally approved non-profit organization that assists landowners who want to protect the natural values of their land, either through purchase or establishment of conservation easements.
CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.
Mission statement: the league to save lake tahoe protects and restores the environmental health, sustainability, and scenic beauty of the lake tahoe basin. we focus on water quality and its clarity for the preservation of a pristine lake…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PLACER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Placer Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mountain Area Preservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds California Sportfishing Protection Allia ↗
- Who funds THE MARGUERITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JUAN PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Sierra Business Council ↗
- Who funds PLACER NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Placer County ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sky View Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sky View Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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