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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.

$192k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$377kEnvironment$285kArts & Culture$99kHealth$70kAnimals$59kCivil Rights$57kPublic Benefit$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$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
DADE HERITAGE TRUST$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIG CAT RESCUE: $500 → 13%BIG CAT RESCUE: $500 → 13%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

VT
NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
NV
CT
CA
VA
MD
NM
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 77 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
9

Total granted

$1.2M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-6%

Still filing today

56%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalAnimalsEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +41%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +162%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • FW
    Florida Wildlife Federation
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -6%
  • E
    Earthworksgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +57%
  • WC
    WILDLIFE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
4
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
5
Rainforest Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
6
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
7
Climate Institute

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…

Environment
8
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Climate Central Inc

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…

Science & Tech
11
National Audubon Society Inc

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).

Environment
12
Environment Now
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildaid Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 95 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
43/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE: $331,000 · OtherYALEENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $70,000 · OtherENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE FUNDNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV: $70,000 · OtherNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVIndividual grant recipient: $53,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACLU: $34,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $28,250 · Other+56 more: $253,775 · Other+56 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $57,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOU…THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $21,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT …OCEAN CONSERVANCY: $18,750 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERV…CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY: $17,500 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FOR …BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentBISCAYNE BAY …FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $4,750 · Environment+5 more: $7,750 · Environment+5 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $26,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,750 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $3,500 · InternationalKenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc: $3,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 · International+3 more: $3,000 · InternationalWildlife Conservation Society: $18,500 · AnimalsANNE K TAYLOR FUND: $13,500 · AnimalsFAUQUIER SPCA INC: $10,500 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · AnimalsFlorida Wildlife Federation: $2,500 · AnimalsColby's Crew Rescue: $2,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $22,500 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $22,500 · Public BenefitEarthworks: $2,500 · Public BenefitDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $1,325 · HealthTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $30,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$841,025Environment$138,250International$52,750Animals$52,000Public Benefit$47,500Health$31,325Crime & Legal$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $57,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $25,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $18,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY: $17,500 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANNE K TAYLOR FUND: $13,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $11,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAUQUIER SPCA INC: $10,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPOST CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDADE HERITAGE TRUST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Wildlife Federation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarthworks: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTIER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,125 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trail Conservancy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGO ONCOLOGY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeel Good Action: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $875 over 4y, 0.0% 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 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 COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN INC ↗
  • 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 ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Msa Family FundDun FoundationNorthern Piedmont Com…Fauquier Health Found…The Batchelor Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Principato Family…William M Backer Foun…The Luminescence Foun…Wise FoundationBass Pro Shops & Cabe…
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL19.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Skyemar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skyemar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Skyemar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Skyemar Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 95 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-PF 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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