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The David B and May T Skinner Foundation Inc Harrison LLP

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$147kArts & Culture$99kHealth$81kYouth Development$75kInternational$60kFood & Nutrition$32kReligion$30kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$723k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE$12,000
MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY$11,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$8,000
NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND$6,500
BEYOND BORDERS$5,000
MY LIFE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
PRENTISS SOCIETY FOR LAUREL SCHOOL$4,000
WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS (WNDB)$3,500
FOODLINK INC$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC (PPFA)$2,500
OPEN DOOR MISSION$2,000
FIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,000
MC DONOGH SCHOOL$2,000
WILMOT CANCER INSTITUTE$1,000
VETRI COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY: $11k → 16%MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY: $7k → 16%MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY: $7k → 16%MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY: $7k → 16%MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY: $7k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE PALOUSE: $1k → 16%ROCHESTER PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $5k → 14%ROCHESTER PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $2k → 14%ROCHESTER PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $500 → 14%ROCHESTER PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $500 → 14%ROCHESTER PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
IL
MI
NY
OR
SD
IN
OH
PA
CA
MD
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$527k · 45 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
22

Total granted

$527k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+32%

Still filing today

53%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • BB
    BEYOND BORDERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +34%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +81%
  • ML
    MY LIFE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Idaho Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +7%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION - ART GALLERY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • HB
    Howard Brown Health Center
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
8
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
9
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Doe Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Abortion Access 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Health CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Public Library SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …Government Accountability R…Professional Ballet Compani…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Faith-Based Senior LivingYouth Development CentersPublic University Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,528

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.

04the grantee network

33 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
28/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MY LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · OtherMY LIFE FOUNDATION INCPRENTISS SOCIETY FOR LAUREL SCHOOL — $34,000 · OtherPRENTISS SOCIETY FOR LAUREL SCHOOLFIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $18,300 · OtherFIFTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS (WNDB) — $17,500 · OtherWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS (WNDB)THE METROPOLITAN OPERA — $13,050 · OtherOPEN DOOR MISSION INC — $11,375 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION - ART GALLERY — $10,000 · OtherST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL — $9,795 · OtherNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND — $10,000 · Other+34 more — $74,510 · Other+34 moreUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $59,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROC…University of Idaho Foundation Inc — $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Ida…MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $9,000 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHOOL I…THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $5,000 · EducationTHE PARK SCHOOL O…THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $5,000 · EducationTHE PARK SCHOOL O…+1 more — $800 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC — $33,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE — $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND …The Evoluer House — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentBEYOND BORDERS INC — $60,000 · InternationalBEYOND BORD…MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY INC — $39,000 · Human ServicesMOSCOW CON…Rochester Presbyterian Home Inc — $8,500 · Human ServicesRochester …AARP FOUNDATION — $2,150 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesSESAME WORKSHOP — $7,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $7,000 · Arts & CultureWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL — $3,490 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC — $850 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $850 · Arts & CultureFOODLINK INC — $13,500 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance — $7,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$253,530Education$89,300Youth Development$69,500International$60,000Human Services$50,650Arts & Culture$24,190Food & Nutrition$20,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBEYOND BORDERS INC — $60,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $59,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMY LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMOSCOW CONTEMPORARY INC — $39,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC — $33,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE — $33,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOODLINK INC — $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Presbyterian Home Inc — $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $4,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL — $3,490 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVICTOR FARMINGTON LIBRARY — $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Evoluer House — $3,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $2,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE PALOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC — $850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOAKWOOD CEMETERY INC — $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BEYOND BORDERS INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
  • Who funds MY LIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY INC
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC
  • Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE
  • Who funds FOODLINK INC
  • Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc
  • Who funds NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND
  • Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED
  • Who funds Rochester Presbyterian Home Inc
  • Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP
  • Who funds Philabundance
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO
  • Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC
  • Who funds Howard Brown Health Center
  • Who funds WXXI PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL
  • Who funds VICTOR FARMINGTON LIBRARY
  • Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC
  • Who funds The Evoluer House
  • Who funds AARP FOUNDATION

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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 The David B and May T Skinner Foundation Inc Harrison LLP 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore2% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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