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The Sheskey Family Foundation at a glance

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The Sheskey Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$79kHealth$44kYouth Development$12kPhilanthropy$8kEnvironment$7kFood & Nutrition$6kCommunity Improvement$3kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$600k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF GRACE CHRUCH SCHOOL$10,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$9,000
THE PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE$5,000
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS$3,300
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$2,500
ADL FIGHTING HATE FOR GOOD$2,500
CENTRAL TEXAS FOODBANK$2,000
CULVER YOUTH CLUB$2,000
CENTRAL TEXAS PHILHARMONIC$1,000
FRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
THE CARING PLACE$766
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%FRIENDS OF GRACE CHRUCH SCHOOL: $12k → 20%FRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1k → 6%KUT AND KUTX: $2k → 10%JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS: $3k → 14%MD ANDERSON: $25k → 16%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 22%CULVER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $10k → 10%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $25k → 12%FRIENDS OF GRACE CHRUCH SCHOOL: $10k → 20%FRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1k → 6%CENTRAL TEXAS FOODBANK: $4k → 10%LAKE MAXINKUCKEE ENVIRONMENTAL FUND: $6k → 10%FRIENDS OF GRACE CHRUCH SCHOOL: $10k → 20%THE CARING PLACE: $766 → 6%CENTRAL TEXAS FOODBANK: $2k → 10%CULVER YOUTH CLUB: $2k → 10%THE PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $5k → 20%CENTRAL TEXAS PHILHARMONIC: $2k → 6%LAKE MAXINKUCKEE ENVIRONMENTAL FUND: $500 → 10%CENTRAL TEXAS PHILHARMONIC: $1k → 6%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.
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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 6 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$68k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+49%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF GRACE CHRUCH SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $32k
  • MA
    MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19k
  • LM
    Lake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue -30%

Funded once

  • MU
    MIAMI UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • MA
    MD ANDERSON
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TA
    TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
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
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
2
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
3
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
10
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
11
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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12
Duke University

To provide a superior liberal education, to prepare future members of learned professions, to advance the frontiers of knowledge, and to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund 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

8 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. 8 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF GRACE CHRUCH SCHOOL: $32,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF GRACE CHRUCH SCHOOLMIAMI UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherMIAMI UNIVERSITYMD ANDERSON: $25,000 · OtherMD ANDERSONMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $19,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+5 more: $9,374 · Other+5 moreCULVER COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $8,300 · PhilanthropyPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationLake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund Inc: $6,500 · EnvironmentJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $3,300 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL TEXAS PHILHARMONIC INC: $3,000 · Community ImprovementCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $5,984 · Food & Nutrition
Other$122,374Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$8,300Education$7,500Environment$6,500Community Improvement$6,300Food & Nutrition$5,984

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 budgetCULVER COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $8,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Maxinkuckee Environmental Fund Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $5,984 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $3,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS PHILHARMONIC INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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