· Private foundation
The Skylight 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DR GAJANG MEDICAL SOCIETY | $18,000 |
| LIVE STRONG | $5,000 |
| PRAJWALA | $4,905 |
| DR BABA NANAK EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY | $1,160 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY | $1,048 |
| TIBET FUND | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS | $630 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $500 |
| INTERNATIONAL CARDIO-ONCOLOGY SOC | $500 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $432 |
| GAMA PAINTING SCHOOL | $430 |
| FRICK COLLECTION | $260 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 50% of grant dollars ($92k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 50% that went abroad ($92k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 50% of all-years giving ($92k)
6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +34%- MFMAINA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +101%
- ACAmerican College of Cardiology5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- GGIVEDOone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NMNO MORE TEARS INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -85%
- PAPRAJWALA A SOCIETY FOR POOR AND DEone grant, 2024 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
The american college of rheumatology is an organization of and for physicians, health professionals, and scientists that advances rheumatology through programs of education, research, advocacy and practice support that foster excellence in…
Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAINA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds American College of Cardiology ↗
- Who funds NO MORE TEARS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Skylight Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Skylight Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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