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The Skiles Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$199k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$544kArts & Culture$456kHealth$142kEducation$88kHousing & Shelter$60kReligion$25kYouth Development$24k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXAS$120,000
HEADWATERS AT INCARNATE WORD$40,000
HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY$20,000
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$19,300
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CADDO LAKE INSTITUTE INC: $20k → 10%HEADWATERS AT INCARNATE WORD: $40k → 16%CAMP FERN LEGACY: $24k → 16%PROJECT ROW HOUSE: $60k → 16%HEADWATERS AT INCARNATE WORD: $24k → 16%PROJECT ROW HOUSE: $20k → 16%HEADWATERS AT INCARNATE WORD: $20k → 16%NEW HOPE HOUSING INC: $60k → 16%THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $50k → 16%THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $20k → 16%THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $19k → 16%THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $12k → 16%HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR: $40k → 16%INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY: $25k → 16%HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR: $20k → 16%HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR: $20k → 16%HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR: $5k → 16%HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY: $60k → 16%HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY: $22k → 16%HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY: $20k → 16%HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY: $20k → 16%HOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+23%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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

  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    6× · 2020–2025 · $291k · revenue +51%
  • HC
    HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR
    4× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +360%
  • HA
    Headwaters at Incarnate Word Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $84k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • HU
    HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $88k · revenue +24%
  • NH
    New Hope Housing Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +23%
  • IW
    INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

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.

1
Harmonia Stellarum Houston

Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…

Arts & Culture
2
Houston Area Community Development Corporation

Houston Area Development Corporation (HACDC), a Community Housing Development Corporation (CHDO), owns and operates single room occupancy (SRO) properties housing low-income individuals and the chronically homeless. It offers robust…

Human Services
3
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
4
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture
5
Art League of Houston

The mission of art league houston is to connect the community through diverse, dynamic, and creative experiences that bring people together to see, make, and talk about contemporary visual art.

6
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc

The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
Hermann Park Conservancy

Hermann Park Conservancy is a citizens organization dedicated to the stewardship and improvement of Hermann Park - today and for generations to come.

Environment
8
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
9
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
10
Houston Geological Society

The houston geological society is a professional society for petroleum, energy and environmental geoscientists. the houston geological society supports continuing education, networking, outreach to students, student scholarships and young…

11
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hardin-Simmons University and the most unlike its peers is Project Row Houses. 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 one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXAS — $440,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXASHOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETY — $142,000 · OtherHOUSTON AREA PARKINSON SOCIETYINCARNATE WORD ACADEMY — $25,000 · OtherTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $291,300 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONHOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR — $85,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIRProject Row Houses — $80,000 · Arts & CultureProject Row HousesHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $88,000 · EducationHeadwaters at Incarnate Word Inc — $83,500 · Crime & LegalNew Hope Housing Inc — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterCAMP FERN LEGACY INC — $23,500 · Recreation & SportsCADDO LAKE INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 · Environment
Other$607,500Arts & Culture$456,300Education$88,000Crime & Legal$83,500Housing & Shelter$60,000Recreation & Sports$23,500Environment$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $291,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $88,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR — $85,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetHeadwaters at Incarnate Word Inc — $83,500 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetProject Row Houses — $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP FERN LEGACY INC — $23,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCADDO LAKE INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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.

  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
  • Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HOUSTON CHAMBER CHOIR
  • Who funds Headwaters at Incarnate Word Inc
  • Who funds Project Row Houses
  • Who funds New Hope Housing Inc
  • Who funds CAMP FERN LEGACY INC
  • Who funds CADDO LAKE INSTITUTE INC

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organization The Skiles Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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