· Private foundation
Skylight Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $485k
- $250k+12 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $700,000 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION | $625,000 |
| CUREPSP INC | $550,000 |
| CMT RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $550,000 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION | $377,167 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION | $357,356 |
| CMT RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| CUREPSP INC | $250,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH | $250,000 |
| UNVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $234,822 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 46% of Skylight Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +99% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- ABAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +5% · 40% of their budget
- CRCMT Research Foundation Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +99%
- CICUREPSP INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +108%
Funded once
- ABAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $625k
- CACHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $225k
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.
Cure CMDs mission is to advance research toward treatments for the congenital muscular dystrophies and empower those living with CMD through engagement and support of our community.
The foundation is committed to supporting neuroscience research that leads to advances in understanding of brain function and treatment of brain-related disorders.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The mission of the cnsa is to support and enhance the study, acquisition, dissemination, and application of knowledge concerning neurology in all of its phases: biological, clinical, and social.
To accelerate scientific discoveries that will lead to breakthrough diagnostics, therapeutics and cures for people living with neuroimmune axis disorders.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
To fund research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing or reversing alzheimer's disease. all overhead expenses are paid by the board of directors, trustees and core group of other donors, allowing 100% of general donations to…
To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives
The National Ataxia Foundation's mission is to accelerate the development of treatments and a cure while working to improve the lives of those living with Ataxia.
The Morton Cure Paralysis Fund MCPF is a nonprofit organization committed to finding a cure for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury and other disorders of the central nervous system. MCPF is also a community of people that provides…
Make life better for people with parkinson's disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.
Funds collaborative medical research and education for multi-system chronic complex diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Brain Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lebanon Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CMT Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMERICA CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Lebanon Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Dream Centers of Michigan ↗
- Who funds The Bluefield Project to Cure Frontotemporal Dementia ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Skylight Charitable Trust 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.