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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.

$207k
Granted FY2025still arriving
131
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$305kHousing & Shelter$151kCommunity Improvement$146kHuman Services$116kArts & Culture$101kReligion$69kYouth Development$66kHealth$62kOther$0
02FY2025 · 131 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k129 grants · $171k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF DE$2,500
AMVETS POST 911$2,500
THEATER COLLABORATIVE OF SOUTH JERSEY$2,500
NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY$2,500
GARDEN STAT COUNCIL BSA$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%ALICE PAUL HOUSE: $625 → 14%GILDA'S CLUB SOUTH JERSEY: $500 → 11%ATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION: $625 → 11%KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%ATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 11%KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%GEORGE'S HOUSE: $2k → 8%KIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION: $350 → 10%ANGELS COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $1k → 8%JERSEY SHORE WOMENS CENTER: $500 → 11%Robins Nest: $3k → 8%Robins Nest: $3k → 8%ACENDA INTEGRATED HEALTH INC: $2k → 8%ACENDA INTEGRATED HEALTH INC: $2k → 8%ACENDA: $1k → 8%ACENDA: $1k → 8%Robins Nest: $1k → 8%Robins Nest: $750 → 8%ACENDA: $500 → 8%KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 10%KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 10%KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
TN
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 181 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

181
96

Total granted

$1.1M
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+6%

Still filing today

39%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SS
    SANFORD SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +52%
  • PF
    PATRIOTS FOR THE SOMERS MANSION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +8% · 71% of their budget
  • AC
    ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • GS
    GARDEN STATE COUNCIL BSA
    one grant, 2023 · $27k
  • BV
    Bellmawr VFW #9563
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • SD
    St Demetrios Greek Orthodox
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

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Cape May Point Science Center
Arts & Culture
2
The New Jersey Historical Society

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…

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3
Medical Society of Delaware

To guide, serve and support delaware physicians, promoting the practice and profession of medicine to enhance the health of our communities.

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4
Jersey Shore Running Club

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

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5
New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation

To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.

Education
6
Nj State Firefighters Mutual Benevolent Assoc Inc

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…

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7
Central Jersey Blood Center Inc

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…

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8
Uss New Jersey (Ssn-796) Support Organization

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…

Philanthropy
9
Healthcare Institute of New Jersey Inc

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.

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10
South Jersey Rowing Club

To provide training and competition in the sport of rowing to high school students and adults in southern new jersey.

Recreation & Sports
11
New Jersey Superior Officers Law Enforcement Association

The mutual protection and benefit of all its members.

Philanthropy
12
Chemistry Council of New Jersey

To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alice Paul House; 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.
04the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 299 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/107
Grantees still filing
67/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various smaller amounts to: $91,340 · OtherVarious smaller amounts toVarious small amounts to: $81,320 · OtherVarious small amounts toDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $30,000 · Other+157 more: $650,775 · Other+157 moreSANFORD SCHOOL: $114,050 · EducationSANFORD SCHOOLSIGMA PI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · EducationSIGMA PI EDUCAT…CORA SERVICES INC: $5,250 · Education+11 more: $26,150 · Education+11 morePATRIOTS FOR THE SOMERS MANSION: $33,250 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH JERSEY JAZZ SOCIETY INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTAILDRAGGER INN INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMASSEY AIR MUSEUM INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,250 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,875 · Arts & CultureACENDA INC DBA ACENDA INTEGRATED HEALTH: $14,250 · Human ServicesKINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE HARBAUGH HOUSE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesKIND TO KIDS FOUNDATION: $1,350 · Human ServicesATLANTIC CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,125 · Human ServicesTHEATER COLLABORATIVE OF SOUTH JERSEY: $10,500 · PhilanthropyDARREN DAULTON FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY EDUCATION BUILDING CORP: $4,000 · PhilanthropyPHELAN MCDERMID SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $3,500 · HealthDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC: $3,250 · HealthTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthPreston's March for Energy Inc: $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CYTOPATHOLOGY INC: $1,000 · HealthBLACKWOOD FIRE COMPANY: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY: $2,500 · Public Safety & DisasterELSMERE FIRE COMPANY NO 1 INC: $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMILL CREEK FIRE COMPANY INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$853,435Education$154,450Arts & Culture$65,875Human Services$28,725Philanthropy$19,500Health$11,250Public Safety & Disaster$10,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANFORD SCHOOL: $114,050 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOTS FOR THE SOMERS MANSION: $33,250 over 5y, 71% of budgetDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTIC CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $17,450 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetACENDA INC DBA ACENDA INTEGRATED HEALTH: $14,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATER COLLABORATIVE OF SOUTH JERSEY: $10,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPatcong Creek Foundation: $10,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetSIGMA PI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN WAREHOUSE INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH JERSEY JAZZ SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCECILTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCORA SERVICES INC: $5,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 273: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLACKWOOD FIRE COMPANY: $5,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDARREN DAULTON FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTAILDRAGGER INN INC: $5,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetTHE HEART OF CAMDEN INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetARC OF GLOUCESTER: $4,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS DELAWARE INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMASSEY AIR MUSEUM INC: $4,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY EDUCATION BUILDING CORP: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $3,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOMERS POINT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetPHELAN MCDERMID SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOMERS POINT FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $2,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBYERSCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN LLC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAWNEE END ZONE CLUB INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HARBAUGH HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 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 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds KINGSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Patcong Creek Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SIGMA PI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds TEEN WAREHOUSE INC ↗

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.

Longwood Foundation IncDE46.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sykora Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sykora Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 370%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
37get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Sykora Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sykora Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 299 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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