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Skyward Specialty Insurance 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k86 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA | $38,967 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $25,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $13,655 |
| BOOTS FOR TROOPS | $10,650 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| TEXAS CONSERVATION FUND | $5,000 |
| BENEFIT OTHERS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,288 |
| THE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC | $2,203 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION (INSURE THE CURE) | $1,865 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC | $1,744 |
| THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (ASPCA) | $1,711 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $1,500 |
| HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,252 |
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 (FY23–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% 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 100% of Skyward Specialty Insurance Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 100% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 55 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
Feeding America2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +2%- BFBoots for Troops2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +30%
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +9%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +1%- BFBEAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $4k
- LYLost-N-Found Youth Incone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +15%
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.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The healthwise mission is to help people make better health decisions.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is The Joncade Thomas Clemons Memorial Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
111 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. 111 of the 138 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 Feeding America ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boots for Troops ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BENEFIT OTHERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Lost-N-Found Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds Tony's Place ↗
- Who funds THE JONCADE THOMAS CLEMONS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Fotofest Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Harvest Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Association for Creatine Deficiencies ↗
- Who funds Western Illinois University Foundation ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
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: McKesson Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Gap Foundation · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Assurant Foundation
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 Skyward Specialty Insurance Foundation 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.
- Learn to Cope Inc — 89% of income from government
- Focus Center for Autism Inc — 63% of income from government
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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