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The Sheckler Foundation
THE SHECKLER FOUNDATION was established in 2008 as a way for ryan, his family, friends and business associates to give back to the community and action sports industry they love.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELEPHANT COOPERATION | $27,100 |
| HOUSE OF STOKED | $5,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETE | $5,000 |
| HIGH FIVES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHILL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
The skatepark project helps underserved communities create safe and inclusive public skateparks for youth.
Grow cycling foundation engineers the infrastructure of opportunity - creating world-class cycling spaces, safe networks and the human systems of safety, skills, careers, and culture - transforming cycling into ladders of upward mobility…
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
The cal ripken, sr. foundation helps to strengthen america's most underserved and distressed communities by supporting and advocating for children, building youth development parks, partnering with law enforcement and youth service…
United states skiing foundation is engaged in not-for-profit membership, competition, training, development, and educational activities related to amateur skiers and snowboarders who are, or aspire to become, members of the u.s. ski and…
To inspire young people through boardsports and build a more equitable outdoor community
The shaquille o'neal foundation's mission is to create pathways for underserved youth, to help them achieve their full potential. the foundation works to instill hope and bring about change in communities, collectively shaping a brighter…
Special olympics strives to create a better world by fostering the acceptance and inclusion of people of all abilities through sports, health and education programs.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.
Team impact is the only u.s. nonprofit that tackles the emotional trauma and social isolation experienced by children facing serious and chronic illnesses by matching them with a college athletic team. because no child should be sidelined…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Harold Hunter Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Chill Foundation. 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.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 ELEPHANT COOPERATION ↗
- Who funds Team Lilly Foundation inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOARDS FOR BROS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFELONG ↗
- Who funds WIGGLE YOUR TOES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MAPLE BUILT INC ↗
- Who funds ONF FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds The Harold Hunter Foundation ↗
- Who funds RABBLE MILL ↗
- Who funds Process Skate Board Ministry ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SOUTH COAST AREA ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILL 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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sheckler 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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