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Skylight Foundation Inc the Siegfried Group

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$712k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$1.3MArts & Culture$902kHealth$525kFood & Nutrition$125kAnimals$115kHuman Services$30kScience & Tech$25kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONGAVA RESEARCH CENTRE$325,000
OPERA PHILADELPHIA$150,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FAO THE BARNES FOUNDATION$100,000
ARTISTYEAR$37,500
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA$25,000
ST BARTHOLOMEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FAO CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA$25,000
TIGER TOP CULTURAL AND ADVENTURE TOURS PVT LTD$14,000
CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC$10,000
02The need
03

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 US giving — 81% of grant dollars ($2.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 19% that went abroad ($579k) is mapped below.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Beyond the US — 19% of all-years giving ($579k)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Namibia$450k · 2 grants
United Kingdom$115k · 2 grants
India$14k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 5 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +106% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+106%
+27%

Still filing today

40%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • OR
    ONGAVA RESEARCH CENTRE
    3× · 2020–2025 · $440k
  • CT
    CULTURE TRUST OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $310k
  • PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • WS
    WOODSTOCK STREET FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.3M
  • OR
    ONGAVA RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • B
    BREASTCANCERORGgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +183%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
2
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
3
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
4
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc

Pokc was formed for charitable and educational purposes and is dedicated to the promotion of the arts.

Arts & Culture
5
Kimmel Center Inc

The kimmel center inc, d/b/a ensemble arts philly's mission is to share the transformative power of the performing arts and arts education with the widest possible audience.

Arts & Culture
6
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
7
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

8
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
9
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
10
Lyric Opera of Chicago

We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…

Arts & Culture
11
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
12
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Orchestra Association and the most unlike its peers is Camp Sunshine At Sebago Lake Inc. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WOODSTOCK STREET FOUNDATION INC — $1,250,000 · OtherWOODSTOCK STREET FOUNDATION INCONGAVA RESEARCH CENTRE — $440,000 · OtherONGAVA RESEARCH CENTRECULTURE TRUST OF PHILADELPHIA — $310,000 · OtherCULTURE TRUST OF PHILADELPHIAONGAVA RESEARCH CENTER — $125,000 · OtherONGAVA RESEARCH CENTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FAO THE BARNES FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other+5 more — $100,761 · OtherPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $245,391 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHES…OPERA PHILADELPHIA — $150,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA PHILADELPHIAWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $95,000 · Arts & CultureWOODMERE ART MUSEUMTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBREASTCANCERORG — $75,000 · HealthGreater Philadelphia Film Office — $50,000 · Public BenefitARTISTYEAR — $37,500 · EducationCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBROAD STREET MINISTRY — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$2,325,761Arts & Culture$515,391Health$75,000Public Benefit$50,000Education$37,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Youth Development$10,000Human Services$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $245,391 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA — $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $95,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG — $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Film Office — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetARTISTYEAR — $37,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds BREASTCANCERORG
  • Who funds Greater Philadelphia Film Office
  • Who funds ARTISTYEAR
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
  • Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Foundation Inc the Siegfried Group 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Skylight Foundation Inc the Siegfried Group?

    Find your warmest path to Skylight Foundation Inc the Siegfried Group 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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