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Skywords Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Skywords Family Foundation Inc

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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$9.1MReligion$5.5MEducation$3.4MPhilanthropy$2.5MSocial Science$1.4MCommunity Improvement$815kInternational$107kEnvironment$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$845,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vanguard Charitable$900,000
Canobie Films Inc$845,000
Chadwick Library Press Foundation$470,000
Ginungagap Foundation$300,000
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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%New York Peace Institute: $3k → 17%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 11 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$19M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+34%

Still filing today

55%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SW
    SUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL AND FARM
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +7%
  • AF
    ACT FOR LEBANON CO FMFSB LLC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $60k · revenue +100% · 47% of their budget
  • THE MARION INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • HJ
    Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -7%
  • AF
    ANASAZI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue -37%
  • BA
    Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
San Francisco Waldorf School Association

With love and devotion, we strive to nourish the unique capacities of every student, that in each may awaken the critical and creative intelligence to envision the future, the compassion and commitment to understand others, and the courage…

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3
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
4
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
5
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
6
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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7
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
9
Marin School of the Arts Foundation

Our mission is to create opportunities for Marin School of the Arts to innovate and support a quality arts education experience for all of its students.

Education
10
Millennium School of San Francisco

See schedule oto realize the transformative potential of middle school. millennium school believes in developing each student to their fullest potential, this involves providing both a rigorous academic program and a science-based…

Education
11
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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12
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rsf Social Finance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chadwick Library Press Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 26 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Canobie Films Inc: $9,075,000 · OtherCanobie Films IncSteinerBooks: $1,115,000 · OtherSteinerBooksElite Synchro USA Inc: $815,000 · OtherElite Synchro USA Inc+11 more: $134,201 · OtherGinungagap Foundation: $5,531,066 · PhilanthropyGinungagap FoundationVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $2,550,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyChadwick Library Press Foundation: $2,170,000 · EducationChadwick Li…+4 more: $89,500 · EducationRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $1,428,715 · Social ScienceACT FOR LEBANON CO FMFSB LLC: $60,000 · InternationalHoward Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation: $50,000 · Public BenefitANASAZI FOUNDATION: $17,436 · Health
Other$11,139,201Philanthropy$8,131,066Education$2,259,500Social Science$1,428,715International$60,000Public Benefit$50,000Health$17,436

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGinungagap Foundation: $5,531,066 over 8y, 100% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $2,550,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChadwick Library Press Foundation: $2,170,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $1,428,715 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSUMMERFIELD WALDORF SCHOOL AND FARM: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetACT FOR LEBANON CO FMFSB LLC: $60,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetHoward Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetANASAZI FOUNDATION: $17,436 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHREEFOLD EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND SCHOOL: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEcological Farming Association: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNOVATO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $126 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Skywords Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skywords Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 26 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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