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Skyline Foundation

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.

$80M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
194
Grants FY2024
131
Organizations funded FY2023
34%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$250,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,000,000
Organizations funded a year
43 to 131
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
27
Total assets, FY2024
$1.3B
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Skyline Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving166$72M25%
FY2023131$58M34%
FY2022101$41M36%
FY202169$26M26%
FY202056$20M21%
FY201966$16M41%
FY201860$15M52%
FY201743$12Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$92MEducation$51MCivil Rights$51MArts & Culture$24MPhilanthropy$20MHealth$14MPublic Benefit$10MCrime & Legal$8.5MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 234 grantees
All grantees of Skyline Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$23,800,00083%
Sierra Club Foundation$23,500,00075%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$20,515,00082%
Global Fund for Women Inc$7,605,00085%
Pro Publica Inc$7,500,00083%
Earthjustice$5,050,00071%
American Journalism Project Inc$4,500,00044%
United States Energy Foundation$4,500,00051%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$4,000,00051%
Economic Security Project Inc$4,000,000313%
Imentor Inc$3,150,00054%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$3,000,00032%
California State University Foundation$3,000,000519%
Learning Policy Institute$2,450,00065%
Environmental Working Group$2,400,00063%
Civic News Company$2,300,00047%
Purchaser Business Group on Health$2,293,00074%
National Partnership for Women and Families$2,255,00085%
Global Press Institute$2,250,000823%
Climateworks Foundation$2,250,00030%
Activate Global Inc$2,250,00034%
New Teacher Center$2,175,00081%
Student Press Law Center$2,080,000861%
Michigan State University$2,000,0002n/a
Berkeley Lab Foundation$2,000,000219%
Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund$2,000,00023%
Givedirectly Inc$2,000,00021%
Center for Carbon Removal$2,000,000210%
The Energy Foundation$1,950,00031%
Human Rights Watch Inc$1,875,00070%
Meb Alliance for Educator Diversity Inc$1,800,00048%
350org$1,750,00053%
Shared Ascent Fund$1,600,00047%
Children Now$1,550,00066%
College Track$1,525,00081%
Center for Community Change$1,500,00033%
Alliance for Safety and Justice$1,500,00031%
Elevate Energy$1,500,00031%
Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Sustainable and Healthy Energy Inc$1,500,000311%
Rewiring America$1,500,00014%
Center for Technology and Civic Life$1,500,00035%
City Bureau Nfp$1,450,000315%
Ravenswood Education Foundation$1,425,00075%
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health$1,385,00070%
Groundswell Fund$1,355,00071%
The 19th News$1,350,00043%
Teach Plus Inc$1,350,00043%
Springboard to Opportunities$1,333,33439%
Sierra Club$1,250,00011%
Capital B News Inc$1,200,00046%
Indij Public Media$1,200,000310%
Californians For Justice Education Fund$1,170,00084%
Institute for Medicaid Innovation Inc$1,125,923699%
Onegoal$1,125,00061%
The Leadership Academy Inc$1,100,00045%
Public Advocates Inc$1,100,00063%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$1,100,0002n/a
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy$1,050,000313%
The Midwife Foundation Inc$1,050,000450%
Public Health Foundation Enterprises Inc$1,050,00030%
The Partnership Project Inc$1,050,00031%
Forward Justice$1,050,00038%
The Institute for College Access & Success$1,000,00037%
Borealis Philanthropy$1,000,00021%
Foundation for California Community Colleges$1,000,00040%
Upchieve Inc$1,000,000218%
United Nations Foundation Inc$1,000,00021%
National Center for Teacher Residencies$1,000,00025%
826 National Inc$975,000810%
Donorschooseorg$975,00031%
Elephant Circle$970,000310%
Campaign for College Opportunity$950,00066%
Aabc Foundation Inc$930,000668%
CalCef Innovations$925,00026%
Environmental Protection Network$900,000315%
Achieve Atlanta Inc$900,00043%
The Sentencing Project$900,00037%
Documented LTD$900,000317%
Education Law Center Inc$900,00046%
Resist Inc$825,00042%
Uaspire Inc$800,00043%
The Education Trust Inc$800,00021%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$800,00040%
Breakthrough Silicon Valley$785,00087%
New Leaders Inc$750,00031%
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards$750,00031%
World Resources Institute$750,00010%
Outlier Media$750,000313%
Eastside College Preparatory School Inc$686,50061%
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Inc$666,66714%
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition$666,666213%
Profound Gentlemen Inc$650,000614%
Environmental Health Coalition$625,00043%
Education Resource Strategies Inc$600,00022%
Muckrock Foundation Inc$600,00028%
Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc$600,000310%
Every Mother Counts$600,00043%
New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty$600,00038%
Public Rights Project$600,00025%
Quest Scholars Program Inc$500,00052%
James B Hunt Jr Institute for Educational Leadership & Policy Fdn$500,00023%
The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc$500,00021%
Fines and Fees Justice Center Inc$500,00015%
Memphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc$500,00024%
Rebuild Local News$500,000217%
Evergreen Collaborative$500,00016%
Latinos for Education Inc$500,000214%
California Budget & Policy Center$500,00025%
Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Inc$500,00017%
American Foundation for the University of British Columbia$500,000215%
Southern Education Foundation Inc$500,00024%
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities$500,00011%
Leading Educators Inc$500,00013%
Centro de Periodismo Investigativo Inc$500,000211%
Initiate Justice$500,000217%
Center for Black Educator Development$500,00022%
Prime Coalition Inc$500,00014%
Foundation for Health Care Quality$475,00036%
Redwood City Education Foundation$475,000717%
The Praxis Project Inc$475,00042%
University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc$450,00030%
TEACHorg Inc$400,00014%
Mills College$400,00040%
California Environmental Justice Alliance$400,00022%
Deep South Today$400,00014%
North Carolina Justice Center$400,00023%
Independent Arts & Media$400,00024%
Prison Journalism Project Inc$400,000215%
National College Advising Corps Inc$400,00012%
Enlace Latino Nc Inc$400,000215%
The Marshall Project Inc$400,00012%
The Political Report Inc$400,000236%
Chicago Votes$375,000217%
The Ole Education Fund$375,00026%
The Futuro Media Group$375,00017%
Oregon Justice Resource Center$375,00029%
The Peninsula Bridge Program$355,00062%
Energy Peace Partners$350,000221%
Oregon State University Foundation$350,00010%
Commonsense Childbirth Inc$334,00024%
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press$300,00014%
Tennessee Educators of Color Alliance N$300,000232%
Pcc Community Wellness Center$300,00020%
California Nurse-Midwives Foundation$280,000554%
Type Media Center Inc$250,00017%
Labstart Innovations Inc$250,000120%
The Big Picture Company$250,00012%
Dwight Hall at Yale$250,00025%
New America Foundation$250,00011%
The Breakthrough Collaborative$250,00014%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$250,00010%
Project on Predatory Student Lending$250,00014%
Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc$250,00028%
Women's Foundation of California$235,00041%
Northern California Indian Development Council Inc$225,00031%
Edbuild$225,000217%
East Palo Alto Academy Foundation$225,00035%
University of Washington$200,0001n/a
Midwifery Education Accreditation Council Inc$200,000239%
Sojourns Community Clinic Inc$185,00024%
The Equity Alliance$180,00024%
Oregon Progress Forum$180,000217%
Generate Health Stl$167,00019%
Foundation for a College Education$165,00044%
Yuma Community Food Bank$150,0003n/a
Black Mamas Matter Alliance Inc$150,00024%
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund$150,00031%
National Association to Advance Black Birth$150,000273%
Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc$150,00015%
Blossom Birth Services Dba Blossom Birth & Family$135,000415%
Fe y Justicia$125,000118%
Northeastern University$125,00010%
March for Moms Association$125,000324%
Policy Matters Ohio$125,00019%
Texas Fair Defense Project$125,000117%
National Public Education Support Fund$125,00051%
Advocacy to Legacy Corp$125,000137%
Sistersong Inc$125,00021%
Trace Media Inc$100,0001n/a
Education Justice Alliance$100,00018%
Journalism Education Association$92,00036%
Action4equity$75,00013%
Migrant Equity Southeast Inc$75,000110%
Institute for Nonprofit News$75,00011%
California Breastfeeding Coalition$75,000121%
Bdote Learning Center$75,00031%
Black Midwifery Collective NFP$75,000112%
Center of Southwest Culture Inc$75,00012%
Sisters in Birth$75,000128%
Deep Center Incorporated$75,00014%
Northern California Grantmakers$71,25050%
Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio$60,00010%
Tennessee Disability Coalition$50,00012%
Santa Fe Indian School$50,00010%
The Miracle Foundation Inc$50,00011%
California Calls Education Fund$50,00011%
Statewide Organizing for Community Empowerment Resource Project$50,00016%
Abraham's Tent Association$50,00018%
Texas EMS Trauma and Acute Care Foundation$40,00012%
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$35,94040%
Canopy$35,00023%
Seeds of Africa Foundation$32,00033%
New Schools Fund$25,00010%
Playworks Education Energized$20,00020%
Save the Redwoods League$15,00010%
Trustees of Boston University$15,00010%
National Outdoor Leadership School$15,00020%
Ryse Inc$12,50020%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$10,00010%
Public Health Advocates$10,00010%
Shine Together Inc$10,0002n/a
Monument Crisis Center$7,50020%
National Park Foundation$5,00010%
Mid Klamath Watershed Council$5,00010%
Salmon River Restoration Council$5,00011%
Berkeley East Bay Humane Society Inc dba Berkeley Humane$5,00010%
Chicana Foundation of Northern Ca Dba Chicana Latina Foundation$5,00011%
Momentum for Health$5,00010%
National Public Radio Inc$5,00010%
Graduate Theological Union$5,00010%
Alliance for Girls$5,00011%
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal$5,00011%
Shotgun Players$5,00020%
Greenbelt Alliancepeople for Open Space$5,00010%
Kara$5,00010%
Berkeley Student Cooperative Inc$5,00020%
Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership$5,00010%
New Story Inc$2,50010%
Summer Search$2,50010%
Youth Speaks Inc$2,5001n/a
Breast Cancer Prevention Partners$2,50010%
Impact Justice$1,00010%
Mission Dharma$1,0001n/a
Rock Steady Boxing Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Skyline Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $23,800,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $23,500,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $20,515,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetGlobal Fund for Women Inc: $7,605,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $7,500,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetEarthjustice: $5,050,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Journalism Project Inc: $4,500,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetUnited States Energy Foundation: $4,500,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $4,000,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetEconomic Security Project Inc: $4,000,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetImentor Inc: $3,150,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetClean Air Task Force Inc: $3,000,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCalifornia State University Foundation: $3,000,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetLearning Policy Institute: $2,450,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetEnvironmental Working Group: $2,400,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetCivic News Company: $2,300,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetPurchaser Business Group on Health: $2,293,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetNational Partnership for Women and Families: $2,255,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetGlobal Press Institute: $2,250,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetClimateworks Foundation: $2,250,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetActivate Global Inc: $2,250,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNew Teacher Center: $2,175,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetStudent Press Law Center: $2,080,000 over 8y, 61% of budgetBerkeley Lab Foundation: $2,000,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetClimate and Clean Energy Equity Fund: $2,000,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetGivedirectly Inc: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCenter for Carbon Removal: $2,000,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetThe Energy Foundation: $1,950,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $1,875,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMeb Alliance for Educator Diversity Inc: $1,800,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budget350org: $1,750,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetShared Ascent Fund: $1,600,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetChildren Now: $1,550,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetCollege Track: $1,525,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCenter for Community Change: $1,500,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetAlliance for Safety and Justice: $1,500,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetElevate Energy: $1,500,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPhysicians Scientists and Engineers for Sustainable and Healthy Energy Inc: $1,500,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetRewiring America: $1,500,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCenter for Technology and Civic Life: $1,500,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCity Bureau Nfp: $1,450,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetRavenswood Education Foundation: $1,425,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetLucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health: $1,385,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $1,355,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetThe 19th News: $1,350,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTeach Plus Inc: $1,350,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSpringboard to Opportunities: $1,333,334 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetSierra Club: $1,250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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 William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA67.1× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Heising-Simons Foundation · New Venture Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The California Wellness 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.

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About Skyline Foundation

How much does Skyline Foundation give?
Skyline Foundation reported 194 grants totaling $80,436,334 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 131 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Skyline Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Education (18%), Civil Rights (18%).
Who are Skyline Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($24M), Sierra Club Foundation ($24M), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($21M).
Does Skyline Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Skyline Foundation 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 Skyline Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Heising-Simons Foundation.
Where is Skyline Foundation based?
Skyline Foundation is based in CA.

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 270 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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