Does The Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey 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 Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Community Foundation of the Napa Valley, Tides Foundation.

The Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey Foundation

The Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey 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.

$244k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$787kEducation$276kInternational$215kArts & Culture$186kPhilanthropy$98kHealth$82kCommunity Improvement$40kReligion$39kOther$0

02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k41 grants · $63k
$10k–50k11 grants · $181k

$1,900

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
IF NOT US THEN WHO	$25,000
CONSERVATION ACTION RESEARCH NETWORK	$21,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$21,000
KCRW	$20,000
WILD CLASSROOM PROJECT	$20,000
LA MAS	$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$15,000
EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE	$13,538
Individual grant recipient	$10,200
DANCER'S GROUP	$10,000
MONGABAYORG	$10,000
JOSHUA TREE FOUNDATION ARTS & ECOLOGY	$5,300
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY	$5,250
GET LIT	$5,250
DESERT DHARMA DOG RESCUE	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 64 repeat orgs$462k to everyone else

64 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+36%

Still filing today

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

MO
MONGABAY ORG CORP
9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +396%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
4× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +36%
CN
California Native Plant Society
6× · 2019–2025 · $59k · revenue +168%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $54k
CI
California Institute for Biodiversity
one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +19%
VE
Various entities
one grant, 2017 · $28k

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.

04Its field

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.

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley; the most unlike its peers is The Laundry Truck La. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 163 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

92/93

Grantees still filing

64/93

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$778,056Environment$614,428Education$223,750International$176,795Arts & Culture$124,043Science & Tech$111,788Philanthropy$107,750

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.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA23.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Tides Foundation · California Community Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Tecumseh Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Annenberg 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Skyscrape Foundation Formerly the Marie D Jeffrey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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