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The Gertrude E Skelly Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Gertrude E Skelly Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$649k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.1MHealth$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$415kHuman Services$285kArts & Culture$150kScience & Tech$113kPublic Benefit$100kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $609k
$15,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$34,182
FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY$25,000
SHEPHERD'S HOPE$20,000
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND$20,000
H A C E R MINISTRY CORP$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$20,000
CARIDAD CENTER INC$20,000
GRACE MEDICAL HOME$20,000
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$20,000
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$20,000
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY$20,000
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$20,000
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE JACKSONVILLE INC$20,000
NOVA UNIVERSITY$20,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Safe Haven of Tarrant County: $5k → 11%North Dallas Shared Ministries: $10k → 14%CARIDAD CENTER INC: $20k → 15%Childrens Aid and Family Services: $25k → 7%Safe Haven of Tarrant County: $5k → 11%North Dallas Shared Ministries: $10k → 14%Children's Aid & Family Services: $20k → 7%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $5k → 11%Childrens Aid and Family Services: $10k → 7%Young Womens Christian Association of Princeton New Jersey: $10k → 11%Caridad Center: $20k → 11%Young Womens Christian Association of Princeton New Jersey: $10k → 11%Caridad Center Inc: $18k → 11%Caridad Center: $15k → 11%Caridad Center: $15k → 11%Caridad Center: $15k → 11%Caridad Center: $15k → 11%Caridad Center: $15k → 11%New Opportunity School for Women: $20k → 16%New Opportunity School for Women: $15k → 16%H A C E R MINISTRY CORP: $20k → 11%Hacer Ministry: $20k → 11%Hacer Ministry Corp: $20k → 11%Hacer Ministry Corp: $15k → 11%Hacer Ministry Corp: $15k → 11%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

NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 91 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
72

Total granted

$5.1M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+30%

Still filing today

54%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +152%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $150k · revenue +31%
  • QU
    QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CS
    Colby Sawyer Charitable Contributions
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • UO
    University of North Dakota Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • AC
    Alice College
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
5
Augustana College

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…

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
8
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
9
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
10
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
University of the South

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 180 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
51/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Providence St Mel School: $160,000 · OtherVolunteers in Medicine: $140,000 · OtherUniversity of Central Florida: $120,000 · Other+117 more: $3,083,670 · Other+117 moreALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $245,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGEQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $135,000 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $135,000 · EducationMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGEFRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC: $120,000 · EducationFRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INCFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $113,930 · EducationFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT…VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $95,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEGE: $90,000 · EducationPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC: $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 · Education+32 more: $965,000 · Education+32 moreCaridad Center Inc: $132,500 · Human ServicesHACER MINISTRY CORP: $90,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesNEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesNORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE YWCA PRINCETON INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $15,000 · Human ServicesGrace Medical Home Inc: $50,000 · HealthSHEPHERD'S HOPE INC: $45,000 · HealthTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $30,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE JACKSONVILLE INC: $20,000 · HealthMax Planck Florida Corporation: $20,000 · HealthSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,503,670Education$2,050,930Human Services$367,500Health$205,000Arts & Culture$180,000Philanthropy$115,000Youth Development$50,000

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 budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $245,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetProvidence St Mel School: $160,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $135,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $135,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCaridad Center Inc: $132,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $113,930 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHACER MINISTRY CORP: $90,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetURSULINE COLLEGE: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLewis University: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGrace Medical Home Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOPE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAdventHealth University Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARBOR BRANCH OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $42,752 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPALM BEACH HABILITATION CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHartwick College: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LEE 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 URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Lewis University ↗
  • Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Grace Medical Home Inc ↗

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.

Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Enterprise Holdings F…Td Charitable Foundat…Council of Independen…The Jim Moran Foundat…Tulsa Community Found…Florida Association o…Lettie Pate Whitehead…Truist Foundation IncThe Chatlos Foundatio…Cvs FoundationCommunity Foundation …
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida FoundationFL19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Gertrude E Skelly Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gertrude E Skelly Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 180 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home