How much did The Skadden Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of The Skadden Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

payments fellows

2019

payments fellows

2020

payments fellows

2021

payment fellows

2022

payment fellowsasylum seekersparticipatory defensehousingcreatehostdevelop

2023

payment fellowsfrontlinefigfellows quarterlyquarterly paymentssummitclimate environmental

2024

payment fellowsfig developdigitalfig createunderdistributeeducate

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $51k
$10k–50k57 grants · $1.9M
$50k–250k31 grants · $2.7M
$250k+1 grant · $506k

$39,876

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$505,860
NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$213,868
LAWYERS COMM FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW$119,468
PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION$114,067
LEGAL AID CHICAGO$110,001
GREATER BOSTON LEGAL$101,457
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC$89,343
BRONX LEGAL SERVICES$88,489
ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND$88,109
HOUSING WORKS INC$87,691
EDUCATION LAW CENTER$87,420
GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM$87,254
BROOKLYN DEFENDER SERVICES$87,150
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT$84,957
EQUIP FOR EQUALITY$84,517

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$29M · 215 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

215 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 156 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

215

233

Total granted

$29M

$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+88%

Still filing today

53%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

Legal Aid at Work
8× · 2017–2024 · $669k · revenue +128%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $589k · revenue +110%
EF
Equip for Equality
8× · 2017–2024 · $520k · revenue +36%

Funded once

AF
ACLU Foundation
one grant, 2018 · $273k
SS
Sargent Shriver Nat'l Center on Proverty Law
one grant, 2019 · $81k
AC
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc Development
one grant, 2021 · $77k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

The Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal

Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal

Public Interest Law Initiative

PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.

Crime & Legal

Legal Council for Health Justice

Use the power of law to secure dignity, opportunity & well-being for people w/illness & disability.

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Justice for the People Legal Center

The Justice for the People Legal Center is working to bring a local organizing approach to the legal world and protect tenants against predatory landlords.

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Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc

Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.

Crime & Legal

Neighborhood Legal Services

A steadfast advocate for individuals, families, and communities throughout LA County.

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Legal Services of Central New York Inc

Legal services of central new york (lscny)is a 501c3 non-profit law firm that helps people and communities in central new york change law, policy, and systems to promote equity and create pathways out of poverty for low-income families and…

Crime & Legal

Civil Liberties Defense Center

CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.

Civil Rights

Legal Aid Association of California

LAAC is the statewide membership of civil legal nonprofits. We serve our community and their clients by advocating for more legal aid funding, by training legal aid staff, and by coordinating and connecting advocates throughout the state.

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Liberty Justice Center

To use strategic litigation to advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%3/187

the rest of the field

11%

206,161/1,819,378

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

186 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

181/186

Grantees still filing

152/186

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$18,483,965Crime & Legal$8,331,909Civil Rights$3,573,575Human Services$1,572,228Education$821,430Community Improvement$587,048Housing & Shelter$316,058

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.

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.

Equal Justice WorksDC143.4× affinity73 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 · Borealis Philanthropy · Legal Services Corporation · The Ford Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · California Access to Justice Commission · American College of Bankruptcy · Equal Justice America Inc · Vera Institute of Justice Inc · The New York Bar Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation The Skadden 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Main Street Legal Services Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 112841751 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Main Street Legal Services Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Skadden Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Skadden Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Skadden Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

186 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Skadden Foundation?

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The Skadden Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

186 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Skadden Foundation?

More from the funding graph