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The Skylark Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$109k
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
3
Organizations funded FY2020
33%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$102,358
Organizations funded a year
3 to 4
FY2019 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 33% of the organizations The Skylark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20203$109k33%
FY20194$51kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.

Philanthropy$146kInternational$13kHuman Services$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$144,35820%
Center for Israel Education Inc$10,00021%
Educate Bwindi$2,7501n/a
Council for Jewish Elderly$1,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

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About The Skylark Foundation

How much does The Skylark Foundation give?
The Skylark Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $109,358 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
What does The Skylark Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (91%), International (8%), Human Services (1%).
Who are The Skylark Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2020: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($144k), Center for Israel Education Inc ($10k), Educate Bwindi ($3k).
Does The Skylark Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Skylark 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.
Where is The Skylark Foundation based?
The Skylark Foundation is based in IL.

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 5 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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