Ohio · Private foundation
Skyler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Skyler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $565k 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 | 24 | $2.6M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $1.4M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.4M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $1.7M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $1.7M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $1.2M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $1.5M | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Country Day School | $1,575,000 | 9 | 3% |
| The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati | $1,120,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Cincinnati Cancer Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 65% |
| Springer School and Center | $926,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Linden Grove School | $690,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Cincinnati Observatory Center | $670,000 | 8 | 31% |
| Manifest Creative Research Gallery | $500,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Summit Country Day School US Catholic Conference | $500,000 | 9 | n/a |
| The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Cooperative for Education | $475,000 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Skyler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Millstone Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
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About Skyler Foundation
- How much does Skyler Foundation give?
- Skyler Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $2,595,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Skyler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Arts & Culture (30%), Health (10%).
- Who are Skyler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cincinnati Country Day School ($1.6M), The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ($1.1M), Cincinnati Cancer Foundation Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Skyler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Skyler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Skyler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Andrew Jergens Foundation, Louise Taft Semple Foundation.
- Where is Skyler Foundation based?
- Skyler Foundation is based in OH.
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