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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.

$148k
Granted FY2024still arriving
90
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$63kPhilanthropy$43kHealth$33kEducation$32kHuman Services$23kInternational$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k86 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
$300
Median grant
22
States reached
$167k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOVER ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION INC: $1k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 8%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $1k → 20%LIVADA ORPHAN CARE: $500 → 5%FOSTER CARE CLOTHING CLOSET: $480 → 20%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $232 → 14%HELPING MAMAS INC: $50 → 9%AZURA INC: $500 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 → 14%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%LOST-N-FOUND YOUTH INC: $3k → 13%FAMILY TIME CRISIS AND COUNSELING CENTER: $205 → 16%TONY'S PLACE: $2k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Skyward Specialty Insurance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 100%.

Skyward Specialty Insurance Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 34 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
47

Total granted

$128k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Feeding America
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +2%
  • BF
    Boots for Troops
    2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue +30%
  • AC
    ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +1%
  • BF
    BEAR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • LY
    Lost-N-Found Youth Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +15%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Healthwise Incorporated

The healthwise mission is to help people make better health decisions.

Health
5
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
6
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
7
City of Hope

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

Health
8
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
9
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
10
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

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…

Health
11
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

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…

Membership Benefit
12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; 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.
05the grantee network

111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/111
Grantees still filing
64/111
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H…The Houston Food Bank: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,680 · OtherTHE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $3,548 · OtherBEAR FOUNDATION: $3,500 · OtherTEXAS CONSERVATION FUND: $10,000 · OtherTEXAS CONSERVATION FUNDBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $7,830 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston …+70 more: $44,018 · Other+70 moreFeeding America: $40,247 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $13,110 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD…+4 more: $2,554 · Food & NutritionHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,479 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY…BENEFIT OTHERS FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyBENEFIT OTHERS F…+3 more: $675 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $15,567 · InternationalUNITED STATES…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $13,655 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL…FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $1,632 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,150 · International+5 more: $1,729 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,713 · HealthChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $1,800 · HealthAssociation for Creatine Deficiencies: $1,052 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthPROJECT YET INC: $800 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $747 · HealthHOUSTON GROUND ANGELS: $700 · Health+16 more: $3,385 · HealthBoots for Troops: $16,585 · Public Benefit+1 more: $391 · Public BenefitLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $2,810 · Human ServicesTony's Place: $2,310 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $1,744 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $1,100 · Human ServicesDOVER ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZA: $1,000 · Human ServicesJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesLIVADA ORPHAN CARE INC: $500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human ServicesAZURA INC: $500 · Human ServicesFOSTER CARE CLOTHING CLOSET INC: $480 · Human Services+4 more: $687 · Human Services
Other$101,576Food & Nutrition$55,911Philanthropy$40,154International$33,733Health$20,447Public Benefit$16,976Human Services$12,631

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding America: $40,247 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,479 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoots for Troops: $16,585 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $15,567 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $13,655 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $13,110 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CONSERVATION FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $7,830 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENEFIT OTHERS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,713 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLost-N-Found Youth Inc: $2,810 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTony's Place: $2,310 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JONCADE THOMAS CLEMONS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFotofest Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,911 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $1,744 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Harvest Inc: $1,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $1,632 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $1,385 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,061 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation for Creatine Deficiencies: $1,052 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOVER ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZA: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGIA MOUNTAIN FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Smoke Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Illinois University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $915 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $747 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON GROUND ANGELS: $700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc: $609 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPOTTY DOG RESCUE INC: $600 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIVADA ORPHAN CARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

McKesson Foundation I…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Verizon FoundationLeslie L Alexander Fo…Carmax FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Charities Aid Foundat…Communities Foundatio…The Gap FoundationThe Northrop Grumman …The Duffield Family F…Assurant Foundation
McKesson Foundation IncTX15.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Skyward Specialty Insurance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skyward Specialty Insurance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Skyward Specialty Insurance Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Skyward Specialty Insurance Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 138 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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