· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k66 grants · $8.3M
- $250k+128 grants · $72M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED | $3,000,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $3,000,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $2,000,000 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| ECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT INC | $1,500,000 |
| REWIRING AMERICA INC | $1,500,000 |
| AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC | $1,500,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS | $1,500,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $1,000,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA INC | $1,000,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA INC | $1,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL | $1,000,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $7.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Skyline Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
165 repeat relationships: 124 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 42 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $24M · revenue +102%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +202%- GFGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $7.6M · revenue +74%
Funded once
- SCSIERRA CLUBone grant, 2018 · $1.3M · revenue -42%
- LELEADING EDUCATORS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +42%
- PFPRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (ARIADNE LABS)one grant, 2018 · $350k
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.
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.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
How this is measured
246 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 246 of the 270 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Learning Policy Institute ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds CIVIC NEWS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PURCHASER BUSINESS GROUP ON HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Global Press Institute ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW TEACHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds STUDENT PRESS LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY LAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds THE ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MEB ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATOR DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Skyline Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skyline Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oregon Justice Resource Center: 26% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Education Resource Strategies Inc: 4% of income from government
- Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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