Arizona · 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.
- $7.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $377,167
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 9
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $106M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Skylight Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 5 | $4.6M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $2.7M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Brain Foundation | $3,709,523 | 3 | 40% |
| CMT Research Foundation Inc | $1,450,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Curepsp Inc | $1,150,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association | $500,000 | 1 | 5% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $350,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lebanon Historical Society Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 39% |
| Dementia Society Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Dream Centers of Michigan | $100,000 | 1 | 11% |
| The Bluefield Project to Cure Frontotemporal Dementia | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Skylight Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 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.
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How this is measured
About Skylight Charitable Trust
- How much does Skylight Charitable Trust give?
- Skylight Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $7,444,345 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Skylight Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (57%), Philanthropy (40%), Housing & Shelter (2%).
- Who are Skylight Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: American Brain Foundation ($3.7M), CMT Research Foundation Inc ($1.4M), Curepsp Inc ($1.1M).
- Does Skylight Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Skylight Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Skylight Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Skylight Charitable Trust based?
- Skylight Charitable Trust is based in AZ.
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