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Skyemar Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE | $55,000 |
| CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| RAINBOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $10,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| ACLU | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB MEMBER SVCS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV | $5,000 |
| POSTCLASSICAL ENSEMBLE | $5,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| ENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +41%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +132%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- WCWILDLIFE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $3k
- FWFlorida Wildlife Federationone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -6%
- EEarthworksgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Climate central, inc. (the organization") is an independent not-for-profit organization of leading scientists, technology experts and communication professionals that are dedicated to researching and reporting on climate change and its…
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildaid Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citizens for Fauquier County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE K TAYLOR FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds POST CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DADE HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Msa Family Fund · Dun Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Principato Family Foundation Inc · William M Backer Foundation Inc · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Skyemar Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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