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The Sykora Family Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k129 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANFORD SCHOOL | $21,500 |
| DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| PATRIOTS FOR THE SOMERS MANSION | $7,500 |
| GLASSBORO LITTLE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| TEEN WAREHOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| TONY MART CARES INC | $5,000 |
| SEAN'S HOUSE | $4,750 |
| CAPE MAY COUNTY CHAMBER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| OUR LADY OF MERCY ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| CITY OF SOMERS POINT | $3,000 |
| THE DARREN DAULTON FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| THEATER COLLABORATIVE OF SOUTH JERSEY | $2,500 |
| AMVETS POST 911 | $2,500 |
| NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| WYATT STRONG FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +14% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
181 repeat relationships — 109 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 22 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- SSSANFORD SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +52%
- PFPATRIOTS FOR THE SOMERS MANSION5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +8% · 71% of their budget
- ACATLANTIC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- GSGARDEN STATE COUNCIL BSAone grant, 2023 · $27k
- BVBellmawr VFW #9563one grant, 2020 · $4k
- DADELAWARE AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k
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 new jersey historical society collects, preserves, teaches, and interprets new jersey history through our archives, research library, and educational programs. we do so in the belief that an understanding and appreciation of historical…
To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.
The organization is dedicated to promoting long distance running as a competitive sport and as healthful exercise. the clubs mission is to represent and promote the common interest
To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.
It is the mission of the new jersey firefighters mutual benevolent association to represent, protect, and educate the firefighters, emts, and dispatchers throughout the state of new jersey through representation at the local, state, and…
See schedule o for complete mission statement.cjbc was founded with a vision to save lives by providing safe, high quality blood products and services to patients in need. entrusted to collect, process and distribute this priceless life…
To provide fundraising, promotional, financial support, and assisting with the dedication ceremonies and other events pertaining to the commissioning of the uss new jersey (ssn 796) submarine as well as support the crew and their families…
To provide advocacy, research, analysis, communication and publication of information concerning healthcare products, r & d, their manufacture and marketing as they pertain to new jersey's pharmaceutical and medical technology industry.
To provide training and competition in the sport of rowing to high school students and adults in southern new jersey.
The mutual protection and benefit of all its members.
To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alice Paul House and the most unlike its peers is Veteran Equine Therapy Stables. 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 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 299 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SANFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS FOR THE SOMERS MANSION ↗
- Who funds DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ACENDA INC DBA ACENDA INTEGRATED HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THEATER COLLABORATIVE OF SOUTH JERSEY ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Patcong Creek Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds SIGMA PI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN WAREHOUSE 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: Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation · The Wawa Foundation Inc
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 Sykora Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Reach Riverside Development Corp — 100% of income from government
- Spirit & Truth Ministries Inc — 100% of income from government
- Acenda Inc Dba Acenda Integrated Health — 69% of income from government
- Kind to Kids Foundation — 69% of income from government
- Community Education Building Corp — 64% of income from government
- Hockessin Fire Company — 60% of income from government
- Epilepsy Services of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation — 56% of income from government
- Friends of Wilmington Parks — 53% of income from government
- Read-Aloud Delaware Inc — 45% of income from government
- Camden-Wyoming Fire Company Inc — 43% of income from government
- The Heart of Camden Inc — 41% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
- Mill Creek Fire Company Inc — 31% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Teen Warehouse Inc — 28% of income from government
- Bayshore Center at Bivalve Inc — 23% of income from government
- Delaware Wrestling Alliance Inc — 13% of income from government
- Kingswood Community Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc — 7% of income from government
- Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hendricks House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Special Olympics Delaware Inc — 3% of income from government
- Delaware Military Academy — 3% of income from government
- Spur Impact Association — 3% of income from government
- Odyssey Charter School — 2% of income from government
- Mot Charter School Inc — 1% of income from government
- A Place for Us Atlantic County Womens Center — 0% of income from government
- The Independence School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sanford School — 0% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association — 0% of income from government
- The Tatnall School Inc — 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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