· Private foundation
The Robert M Sinskey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $848k
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION MASS EYE & EAR | $350,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS | $250,000 |
| NAPA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $215,905 |
| MUSC STORM EYE INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $57,000 |
| SOUTHERN SMOKE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +51%- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $694k · revenue +11%
- SSSouthern Smoke Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TMTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $135k · revenue +120%
- WEWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $132k · revenue -5%
- SISEATTLE INSTITUTE BIOMEDICALone grant, 2022 · $104k
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Smoke Foundation ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OXBOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert M Sinskey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert M Sinskey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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