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Skyler Foundation at a glance

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Skyler Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.9MArts & Culture$4.0MHealth$1.3MInternational$645kReligion$460kCrime & Legal$180kHousing & Shelter$175kHuman Services$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $950k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LINDEN GROVE SCHOOL$50,000
MISSION PARTNERS GUATEMALA$50,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$50,000
CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
MANIFEST CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS$50,000
CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER$50,000
FOUND VILLAGE$50,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA: $100k → 14%LITTLE MIAMI CONSERVANCY: $80k → 9%ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS: $150k → 15%MANIFEST CREATIVE RESEARCH GALLERY AND DRAWING CENTER: $500k → 16%DOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL: $175k → 16%ST URSULA ACADEMY: $100k → 16%DOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL: $75k → 16%ST URSULA ACADEMY: $75k → 16%DOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL: $75k → 16%UPSPRING: $75k → 16%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $200k → 16%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $155k → 16%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $150k → 16%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $150k → 16%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $150k → 16%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%SUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $275k → 16%SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $250k → 16%SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $150k → 16%SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $150k → 16%CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER: $150k → 16%Springer School and Center: $146k → 16%CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER: $100k → 16%WITHROW ALUMNI: $100k → 16%SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER: $85k → 16%SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $80k → 16%LINDEN GROVE SCHOOL: $400k → 16%LINDEN GROVE SCHOOL: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1.0M → 16%CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $100k → 16%PRICE HILL WILL: $100k → 16%COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 16%THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY: $500k → 16%CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $100k → 16%NEUSOLE GLASSWORKS: $150k → 16%NEUSOLE GLASSWORKS: $100k → 16%NEUSOLE GLASSWORKS: $100k → 16%NEUSOLE GLASSWORKS: $100k → 16%NEUSOLE GLASSWORKS: $100k → 16%NEUSOLE GLASSWORKS: $100k → 16%NEUSOLE GLASSWORKS: $100k → 16%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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 32 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
24

Total granted

$10M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+63%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • CC
    CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +20%
  • TC
    The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +157%
  • SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $926k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • CC
    CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +385% · 65% of their budget
  • MC
    Manifest Creative Research Gallery
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
  • TP
    The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +43%
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
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
2
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc

Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.

Arts & Culture
3
The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture
4
Cincinnati Arts and Technology Center

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.…

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5
Cincinnati Waldorf School

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…

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6
Art Academy of Cincinnati

Our mission is to operate, maintain, and oversee an independent college of art and design.

Education
7
Hillel the Foundation of Jewish Campus Life

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…

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8
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Cincinnati Children's Choir

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…

Arts & Culture
10
World Affairs Council - Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky

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…

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11
Literary Cleveland

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.

Education
12
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 64 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,575,000 · EducationCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $926,000 · EducationSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTERLINDEN GROVE SCHOOL: $690,000 · EducationLINDEN GROVE SCHOOLThe Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc: $500,000 · EducationThe Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton…COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $475,000 · EducationCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATIONDOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL: $455,000 · EducationDOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLWITHROW ALUMNI INC: $300,000 · EducationWITHROW ALUMNI INCROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN: $285,000 · Education+3 more: $147,000 · EducationNEUSOLE GLASSWORKS: $750,000 · OtherNEUSOLE GLASSWORKSSUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL US CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $500,000 · OtherSUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL US…KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $285,000 · OtherKNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHDELHI CITIZENS POLICE ASSOCIATION: $180,000 · OtherDELHI CITIZENS POLICE ASSOCI…ST URSULA ACADEMY: $175,000 · OtherMANIFEST DRAWING CENTER: $125,000 · Other+30 more: $1,283,000 · Other+30 moreThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $1,120,000 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Theatre o…CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER: $670,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI OBSERVATORY C…Manifest Creative Research Gallery: $500,000 · Arts & CultureManifest Creative Resear…ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $110,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $250,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · HealthCINCINNATI…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $210,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S…BEECHWOOD HOME: $50,000 · HealthFound Village: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentUPSPRING: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentMISSION PARTNERS GUATEMALA: $170,000 · InternationalLITTLE MIAMI CONSERVANCY: $110,000 · Environment
Education$5,353,000Other$3,298,000Arts & Culture$2,900,000Health$1,260,000Youth Development$175,000International$170,000Environment$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,575,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $1,120,000 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $926,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetLINDEN GROVE SCHOOL: $690,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetCINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER: $670,000 over 8y, 31% of budgetManifest Creative Research Gallery: $500,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetThe Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $475,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetDOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL: $455,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWITHROW ALUMNI INC: $300,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN: $285,000 over 9y, 53% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $210,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION PARTNERS GUATEMALA: $170,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $110,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE MIAMI CONSERVANCY: $110,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetFound Village: $100,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK: $90,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCincinnati String Project: $80,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetUPSPRING: $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $75,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetBUXTON SCHOOLINC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKennedy Heights Arts Center: $70,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetWordplay Cincy: $65,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEECHWOOD HOME: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cincinnati Tennis Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPeaslee Neighborhood Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDE CAVEL FAMILY SIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $7,000 over 1y, 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 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 Manifest Creative Research Gallery ↗
  • Who funds The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds DOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WITHROW ALUMNI INC ↗
  • Who funds ROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MISSION PARTNERS GUATEMALA ↗
  • Who funds ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE MIAMI CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PRICE HILL WILL ↗
  • Who funds Found Village ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati String Project ↗
  • Who funds UPSPRING ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds BUXTON SCHOOLINC ↗
  • Who funds Kennedy Heights Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds Wordplay Cincy ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Andrew Jergens Founda…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Johnson Charitable Gi…The Thomas J Emery Me…Charles H Dater Found…John a Schroth Family…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Farmer Family Foundat…Millstone FundGe Aerospace Foundati…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH53.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Skyler Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Skyler 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 64 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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