· Private foundation
The Gertrude E Skelly Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $609k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY | $34,182 |
| FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE JACKSONVILLE INC | $20,000 |
| COLBY-SAWYER COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| GRACE MEDICAL HOME | $20,000 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| H A C E R MINISTRY CORP | $20,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S HOPE | $20,000 |
| CARIDAD CENTER INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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.
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.
91 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +152%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION5× · 2017–2021 · $150k · revenue +34%- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CSColby Sawyer Charitable Contributionsone grant, 2017 · $100k
- UOUniversity of North Dakota Foundationone grant, 2018 · $40k
- ACAlice Collegeone grant, 2020 · $40k
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.
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Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Worcester Youth Center Inc. 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 63 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 180 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 ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Providence St Mel School ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HACER MINISTRY CORP ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds Lewis University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Grace Medical Home 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: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Florida Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · Cvs Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties 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 Gertrude E Skelly Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Max Planck Florida Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Bethune-Cookman University — 6% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc — 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.