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The Skye Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $55,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT | $24,200 |
| IRIS | $24,200 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $24,200 |
| CT FOOD BANK | $22,000 |
| DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN | $22,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $19,690 |
| COMMON GROUND (NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT) | $19,250 |
| LEAP | $18,150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,500 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL | $16,500 |
| NEW HAVEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $16,500 |
| CITY SEED | $15,950 |
| ALL OUR KIN INC | $12,100 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $12,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $206k · revenue +97%
- STSAVE THE SOUND8× · 2018–2025 · $158k · revenue +29%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC8× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- CGCOMMON GROUNDone grant, 2021 · $16k
- RAREAL ART WAYS INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +0%
- UWUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +112%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
Greater newark conservancy is a new jersey not-for-profit organization that expands access to healthy food, environmental education, and green spaces. we provide hands-on community programs that cultivate sustainability, inspire action,…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
United way of connecticut is proud to be a trusted and vital resource for help and information about what the people of connecticut need. we respond to requests for food, housing, health care, child care, child development resources,…
We bring people together through strong local and statewide partnerships to help children, youth and families thrive.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Partnership with children's mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of children in new york city so they can succeed in school, society, and life.
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater New Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CITY SEED INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANA GRACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA NURSERY SCHOOL 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.
Open a dossier: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Yale University · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · MFUND Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Peoples United Community 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 Skye Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Seed Inc — 87% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) — 11% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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