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The Skadden Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
106
Grants FY2024
99
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$39,876
Largest grant, FY2024
$505,860
Organizations funded a year
86 to 141
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
24
Total assets, FY2024
$11M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations The Skadden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $806k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving104$5.1M41%
FY202399$4.4M36%
FY2022111$4.2M51%
FY202186$4.1M33%
FY2020114$4.2M45%
FY2019141$4.0M45%
FY2018140$3.9M64%
FY2017102$3.7Mn/a
76% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$18MCivil Rights$9.4MEducation$1.4MHuman Services$709kCommunity Improvement$577kHealth$550kPublic Benefit$459kHousing & Shelter$457kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 216 grantees
All grantees of The Skadden Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$861,79030%
Legal Aid at Work$815,70582%
Equip for Equality$519,84981%
Education Law Center Inc$484,95165%
Brooklyn Defender Services$475,31170%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$432,81950%
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc$431,90660%
Urban Justice Center$388,26650%
New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation$376,73322%
Legal Aid Chicago$374,24050%
Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc$332,45570%
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund$318,56064%
Legal Services NYC$307,24851%
Indiana Legal Services Inc$302,86461%
National Consumer Law Center Inc$289,32660%
Centro Legal de la Raza$289,10161%
Legal Aid Justice Center$270,78841%
The Campaign Legal Center Inc$270,49461%
Georgia Legal Services Program Inc$269,46850%
Rights Behind Bars Inc$257,635412%
Archcity Defenders$251,75952%
Shriver Center on Poverty Law$246,95432%
Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A$246,65941%
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc$244,58751%
Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc$217,60343%
Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc$208,31731%
Bay Area Legal Aid$203,33350%
New Economy Project Inc$190,51244%
Make the Road New York$188,93340%
Justice Action Center$185,77933%
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles$175,88250%
Tennessee Justice Center Inc$173,54832%
Purpose Dignity Action$167,37432%
Disability Rights Michigan$167,05941%
Community Legal Services Inc$166,68140%
Public Counsel$163,14340%
Housing Works Inc$161,22330%
Iowa Legal Aid$161,20331%
Community Development Project Inc$155,83131%
New York Civil Liberties Union Inc$154,86331%
Justice at Work Inc$154,003412%
Communities Resist Inc$153,87432%
Earthjustice$152,68630%
Alliance for Children's Rights$151,74941%
Main Street Legal Services Inc$151,299397%
Tribal Law and Policy Institute$148,36931%
Mission Action Inc$147,18430%
Bread for the City Inc$146,33630%
Maine Equal Justice Partners$146,15333%
National Association of the Deaf$145,42032%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$145,23330%
Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc$144,15041%
Justice and Accountability Center of Louisiana$143,12436%
ACLU Foundation of Southern California$141,60940%
Kind Inc$140,16030%
National Employment Law Project$140,09931%
California Rural Legal Assistance Inc$139,59630%
Sanctuary for Families Inc$139,28930%
Legal Aid Society of Cleveland$137,82731%
The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo$137,34131%
Catholic Migration Services Inc$136,30831%
Homeless Persons Representation Project Inc$134,74835%
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network$133,95232%
Victim Rights Law Center Inc$133,76932%
Eviction Defense Network$133,70335%
Children's Law Center of California$133,31530%
Juvenile Law Center$133,18232%
American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$131,52527%
TeamChild$130,48842%
Ohio Justice and Policy Center$130,33034%
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc$130,10141%
The Tahirih Justice Center$130,09031%
The Bronx Defenders$129,58730%
Citizens for Juvenile Justice Inc$129,57939%
Montana Legal Services Association$128,37921%
Michigan Community Resources$128,35843%
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc$127,91031%
Beyond Legal Aid$127,12346%
Mountain State Justice Inc$126,79832%
The Wage Justice Center$125,59238%
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights$125,41330%
A Better Balance Inc$125,20641%
Ayuda Inc$124,35031%
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc$124,29522%
Inner City Law Center$124,12130%
Louisiana Center for Children's Rights$123,16832%
Community Justice Project Inc$121,95638%
Northeast Legal Aid Inc$118,01621%
American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation$117,47322%
Powerswitch Action$117,21431%
Immigrant Legal Resource Center$116,26330%
Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc$115,45721%
National Center for Youth Law$113,78820%
Learning Rights Law Center$112,58233%
American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas$111,864226%
Southern Center for Human Rights$110,3752n/a
Disability Law Center Inc$110,2622n/a
The Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice$110,24925%
Open City Advocates$109,705314%
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc$108,50923%
Friends of Farmworkers Inc$107,66522%
Disability Rights California$102,80620%
Children Law Center of Massachusetts Inc$102,49625%
Sustainable Economies Law Center$101,66530%
National Women's Law Center$101,23621%
Lawyers for Children Inc$101,01521%
Her Justice Inc$100,6552n/a
Veterans Legal Services Inc$97,75829%
Homeboy Industries$95,47020%
Western New York Law Center Inc$95,42923%
The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc$93,57621%
National Immigration Law Center$93,27220%
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc$91,96121%
Civil Rights Corps$87,20422%
Raise the Floor Alliance$86,38423%
Cabrini Green Legal Aid$84,4602n/a
Immigrant Legal Defense$84,39221%
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc$80,47020%
Colorado Juvenile Defender Center DBA Transformative Justice Proj of Colo$79,623231%
New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc$76,73021%
Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc$75,9802n/a
Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc$74,93634%
Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund$73,91920%
Neighborhood Defender Service Inc$70,39611%
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc$64,89920%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$63,27720%
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law$63,05211%
Impact for Equity$62,95131%
The Rhode Island Center for Justice$62,51029%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$58,9601n/a
ACLU Foundation of Colorado Inc$55,20511%
Central American Refugee Center Carecen Ny$54,47711%
American Civil Liberties Union - Nj Foundation Inc$51,35012%
Greater Boston Legal Services Inc$51,12220%
Legal Aid Society Inc$49,64611%
The Legal Aid Society$49,24420%
Whitman-Walker Health System Inc$48,84510%
American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska Foundation$47,71014%
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia$46,76330%
Project on Predatory Student Lending$45,74911%
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy$44,61912%
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition$44,40511%
New Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice$43,87414%
Lsny-Bronx Corporation$43,45910%
Family Justice Law Center Inc$43,2111n/a
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice$42,61112%
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Inc$41,22213%
Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia$39,72910%
Oregon Law Center$39,70310%
Community Legal Aid Inc$39,25110%
Advocates for Children of New Jersey$38,97521%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Ks$38,89511%
Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice$38,52512%
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc$38,00310%
American Friends Service Committee$36,6451n/a
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc$36,35210%
Casa Inc$34,57710%
Youth Represent Inc$33,55512%
Political Asylumimmigration Representation Project Inc$33,27412%
Office of Kentucky Legal Services Programs Inc$32,91222%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc$32,34811%
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization$31,86511%
Seniorlaw Center$31,26012%
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc$30,87212%
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc$30,72711%
Disability Rights Texas$28,53610%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc$28,32410%
Mobilization for Justice Inc$25,00020%
Albany Law School$25,00020%
Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund$22,31410%
Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights Inc$20,00027%
Michigan Advocacy Program$20,00010%
Milk With Dignity Standards Council Inc$20,00022%
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network$15,00011%
Taproot Earth$15,00010%
Kelsey$15,00010%
Advancement Project Education Fund$15,00010%
New York University$15,00010%
American Diabetes Association$15,00010%
Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Inc$15,00010%
National Association of Counsel for Children$15,00011%
Center for Law and Human Values Inc$15,00010%
Youth Law Center$15,00010%
Community Dispute Settlement Center Inc$15,00013%
American University$15,00010%
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$14,75510%
Korean Resource Center Inc$14,53311%
Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network$10,0001n/a
New Mexico Legal Aid Inc$10,00010%
Forge Inc$10,00013%
National Center for Law and Economic Justice Inc$10,0001n/a
East Bay Community Law Center$10,00010%
Wecount$10,00011%
California Youth Defender Center Inc$10,00014%
Youth Justice Fund$10,00015%
Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc$10,00011%
Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services$10,00010%
New Media Advocacy Project Inc$10,00011%
East Bay Family Defenders$10,00011%
The Family Defense Center$10,00012%
Foster Care Advocacy Center$10,000138%
Pro Bono Net Inc$10,00010%
University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Worksafe Inc$10,00011%
Resilience Advocacy Project$10,00012%
Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc$10,00010%
Madison Public Schools Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Union Theological Seminary$5,00010%
Ascend Justice$5,00010%
ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties$5,00010%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$5,00010%
The Anita Revers Charitable Foundation Anita R Evers Trustee$1,2501n/a
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri Inc$1,05510%
Immigrant Defenders Law Center$1,02910%
The Partnership for After School Education Inc$70010%
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc$55010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 253 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Skadden Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $861,790 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLegal Aid at Work: $815,705 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetEquip for Equality: $519,849 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetEducation Law Center Inc: $484,951 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetBrooklyn Defender Services: $475,311 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $432,819 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc: $431,906 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Justice Center: $388,266 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Civil Liberties Union Foundation: $376,733 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLegal Aid Chicago: $374,240 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLegal Aid of North Carolina Inc: $332,455 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAsian American Legal Defense and Education Fund: $318,560 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetLegal Services NYC: $307,248 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetIndiana Legal Services Inc: $302,864 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNational Consumer Law Center Inc: $289,326 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCentro Legal de la Raza: $289,101 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLegal Aid Justice Center: $270,788 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetThe Campaign Legal Center Inc: $270,494 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGeorgia Legal Services Program Inc: $269,468 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRights Behind Bars Inc: $257,635 over 4y, 12% of budgetArchcity Defenders: $251,759 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetShriver Center on Poverty Law: $246,954 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBrooklyn Legal Services Corporation A: $246,659 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAsylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc: $244,587 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMental Health Advocacy Services Inc: $217,603 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetLegal Assistance of Western New York Inc: $208,317 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBay Area Legal Aid: $203,333 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew Economy Project Inc: $190,512 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetMake the Road New York: $188,933 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJustice Action Center: $185,779 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles: $175,882 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTennessee Justice Center Inc: $173,548 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPurpose Dignity Action: $167,374 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDisability Rights Michigan: $167,059 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Legal Services Inc: $166,681 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPublic Counsel: $163,143 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHousing Works Inc: $161,223 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $161,203 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Development Project Inc: $155,831 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNew York Civil Liberties Union Inc: $154,863 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJustice at Work Inc: $154,003 over 4y, 12% of budgetCommunities Resist Inc: $153,874 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetEarthjustice: $152,686 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance for Children's Rights: $151,749 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMain Street Legal Services Inc: $151,299 over 3y, 97% of budgetTribal Law and Policy Institute: $148,369 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMission Action Inc: $147,184 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBread for the City Inc: $146,336 over 3y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Equal Justice WorksDC146.8× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Legal Services Corporation · Borealis Philanthropy · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The New York Bar Foundation · Equal Justice America Inc · California Access to Justice Commission · American College of Bankruptcy 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.

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About The Skadden Foundation

How much does The Skadden Foundation give?
The Skadden Foundation reported 106 grants totaling $5,080,991 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 86 and 141 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Skadden Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (53%), Civil Rights (28%), Education (4%).
Who are The Skadden Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($862k), Legal Aid at Work ($816k), Equip for Equality ($520k).
Does The Skadden Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Skadden Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Skadden Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equal Justice Works, The Sidley Austin Foundation, Legal Services Corporation.
Where is The Skadden Foundation based?
The Skadden Foundation is based in NY.

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 472 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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