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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.

$47k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Youth Development$60kHealth$45kRecreation & Sports$30kAnimals$27kPhilanthropy$26kEducation$10kCommunity Improvement$10kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$275k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELEPHANT COOPERATION$27,100
HIGH FIVES FOUNDATION$5,000
CHALLENGED ATHLETE$5,000
HOUSE OF STOKED$5,000
CHILL FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELEPHANT COOPERATION: $27k → 11%ELEPHANT COOPERATION: $9k → 11%GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 17%CHALLENGED ATHLETE: $5k → 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

VT
MN
NY
NJ
CA
CO
NE
AZ
KS
TN
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 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
The Skatepark Project

The skatepark project helps underserved communities create safe and inclusive public skateparks for youth.

Philanthropy
2
Clif Family Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Boardriders Foundation
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4
Grow Cycling Foundation Corporation

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…

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5
Youthbuild Global Inc

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…

Employment
6
Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc

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…

Education
7
United States Skiing Foundation

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…

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8
Chill Foundation

To inspire young people through boardsports and build a more equitable outdoor community

Youth Development
9
The Shaquille O'neal Foundation

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…

Youth Development
10
Special Olympics Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
11
Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.

Youth Development
12
Team Impact Inc

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Harold Hunter Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Team Lilly Foundation inc: $14,500 · OtherTeam Lilly Foundation incMANNY SANTIAGO FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherMANNY SANTIAGO FOUNDATIONFREEDOM SKATE PARK A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 · OtherFREEDOM SKATE PARK A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATIONMAPLE BUILT INC: $10,000 · OtherMAPLE BUILT INCONF FOR AUTISM INC: $10,000 · OtherONF FOR AUTISM INCSOUTHSIDE SKATEPARK: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHSIDE SKATEPARKBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SOUTH COAST AREA: $7,525 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SOUTH COAST AREAMANNY SLAYS ALL LLC: $7,500 · OtherMANNY SLAYS ALL LLCHOUSE OF STOKED: $5,000 · OtherADAPTIVE SKATE KOLLECTIVE: $5,000 · OtherThe Harold Hunter Foundation: $10,000 · OtherThe Harold Hunter FoundationORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $7,000 · OtherORANGEWOOD FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $5,000 · OtherELEPHANT COOPERATION: $36,395 · Human ServicesELEPHANT COOPERATIONCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES IN…GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGLASSWING INTERNATIONA…BOARDS FOR BROS INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBOARDS FO…RABBLE MILL: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsRABBLE MI…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITI…PROJECT LIFELONG: $10,000 · EducationPROJECT L…WIGGLE YOUR TOES INCORPORATED: $10,000 · HealthHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyProcess Skate Board Ministry: $10,000 · Religion
Other$112,525Human Services$46,395Recreation & Sports$20,000Education$20,000Health$15,000Philanthropy$15,000Religion$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELEPHANT COOPERATION: $36,395 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTeam Lilly Foundation inc: $14,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetProcess Skate Board Ministry: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOARDS FOR BROS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWIGGLE YOUR TOES INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetPROJECT LIFELONG: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMAPLE BUILT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONF FOR AUTISM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRABBLE MILL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Harold Hunter Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SOUTH COAST AREA: $7,525 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $5,000 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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC6.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Sheckler Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sheckler Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 25 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $28k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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