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The Skaggs Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$496k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$381k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
78% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$389kCrime & Legal$240kReligion$50kFood & Nutrition$20kPhilanthropy$15kHealth$11kHousing & Shelter$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Davidson College$160,00020%
Legal Action Chicago LLC$130,000118%
Ohio State University Foundation$88,05310%
Village Chapel Presbyterian Church$50,0002n/a
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$45,00020%
Women's Fund of Central Ohio$15,00021%
Chicago Women's Health Center$10,00020%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$10,00020%
Casa of Los Angeles$5,00010%
Mount St Vincent Home Inc$5,00010%
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All grantees of The Skaggs Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Davidson College$160,00020%
Legal Action Chicago LLC$130,000118%
Ohio State University Foundation$88,05310%
Village Chapel Presbyterian Church$50,0002n/a
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$45,00020%
Women's Fund of Central Ohio$15,00021%
Chicago Women's Health Center$10,00020%
Greater Chicago Food Depository$10,00020%
Casa of Los Angeles$5,00010%
Mount St Vincent Home Inc$5,00010%
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles$5,00010%
Los Angeles Food Bank$5,0001n/a
Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc$5,00010%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$5,00010%
Covenant House California$5,00010%
Turn90$2,50010%
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Skaggs Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDavidson College: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Action Chicago LLC: $130,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetOhio State University Foundation: $88,053 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Virginia University Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Fund of Central Ohio: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChicago Women's Health Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCasa of Los Angeles: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMount St Vincent Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Library Foundation of Los Angeles: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Care and Control of New York City Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House California: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurn90: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 15.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About The Skaggs Family Foundation

How much does The Skaggs Family Foundation give?
The Skaggs Family Foundation reported 12 itemized grants totaling $381,307, out of $496,307 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Skaggs Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (12%), Crime & Legal (7%), Religion (1%).
Who are The Skaggs Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Davidson College ($160k), Legal Action Chicago LLC ($130k), Ohio State University Foundation ($88k).
Does The Skaggs Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Skaggs Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is The Skaggs Family Foundation based?
The Skaggs Family 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 21 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $474k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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