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Skyler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- $10k–50k10 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $950k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| LINDEN GROVE SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI | $150,000 |
| NEUSOLE GLASSWORKS | $100,000 |
| COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION | $100,000 |
| PRICE HILL WILL | $100,000 |
| SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER | $80,000 |
| KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $70,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER | $50,000 |
| LINDEN GROVE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FOUND VILLAGE | $50,000 |
| MANIFEST CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| MISSION PARTNERS GUATEMALA | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 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; $240k 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
- CCCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +20%
- TCThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +157%
SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $926k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- CCCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +303% · 65% of their budget
- TPThe Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +43%
- MCManifest Creative Research Galleryone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…
The Cincinnati Waldorf School educates the unfolding capacities of children by engaging the creative imagination of the mind, the spirit of the heart, and the skillful use of the hands. The community actively participates in creating an…
Our mission is to operate, maintain, and oversee an independent college of art and design.
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
It is the mission of the Cincinnati Youth Choir to offer all children and youth the opportunity to experience musical excellence in a creative environment.Participants demonstrate musical understanding, artistry, achievement and confidence…
The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is De Cavel Family Sids Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 64 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 CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds LINDEN GROVE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Manifest Creative Research Gallery ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds DOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WITHROW ALUMNI INC ↗
- Who funds ROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MISSION PARTNERS GUATEMALA ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE MIAMI CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PRICE HILL WILL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Found Village ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati String Project ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds BUXTON SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Kennedy Heights Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Wordplay Cincy ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
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: 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
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 Skyler 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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