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The Ted and Shannon Skokos Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$349k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Arts & Culture$2.2MEducation$815kSocial Science$300kHealth$165kPublic Benefit$150kRecreation & Sports$100kHuman Services$37kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALMA EDUCATION & ARTS FOUNDATION$200,000
DENISON FORUM ON TRUTH AND CULTURE$50,000
MISS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION$30,000
AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$25,000
GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$25,000
JONATHAN'S PLACE$10,000
PISTON FOUNDATION$5,000
PAWS OF WAR$3,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CEDAR CREEK$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $20k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $10k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $4k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $1k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 12 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$3.6M
$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+138%

Still filing today

50%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • DC
    DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2.0M · revenue +209%
  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $145k · revenue +505%
  • GW
    GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • RF
    RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +138%
  • DB
    DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +31%
  • BH
    Baylor Health Care System Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +139%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Forty First Foundation

The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…

Education
2
The University of Texas Foundation No 1

To support the university of texas system

3
The University of Texas Foundation No 2

To support the university of texas system

4
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
5
West Texas a&M Univ Foundation

The foundation supports west texas a&m university, an institution of higher education, and the students of wtamu by receiving and administering gifts from the public.

Education
6
The Dallas Opera Foundation

Provide financial support to the dallas opera.

Philanthropy
7
The University of Texas Foundation Inc

To advance education through financial support of the university of texas system, including all of its branches, departments, schools and colleges at its fourteen institutions, to improve its research, teaching, scholarship, faculties and…

8
Dallas Bar Foundation

The purpose or purposes for which the Foundation is organized are educational and charitable, and to that end the corporation is formed to sponsor and encourage research, publications, institutes and forums for the furtherance of justice…

Crime & Legal
9
Texas State University System Foundation

Public charitable uses and purposes for the benefit of the texas state university system and its components by providing, directly or indirectly, assistance and benefits to the system and/ or the systems components.

Education
10
University of North Texas Foundation Inc

The university of north texas foundation, inc. serves as unt's strategic partner in managing and growing private assets for support of the university's mission. untf's continuity, flexibility, and creative solutions contribute to fully…

Philanthropy
11
Alabama a&M University Foundation

The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…

12
Texas a&M San Antonio Foundation

To furnish Texas AM University-San Antonio with provisions for future and perpetual financial support for its students to help them succeed during college and in the future as valuable contributing members of the community

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws of War Inc. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $2,050,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyALMA EDUCATION AND ARTS FOUNDATION — $600,000 · EducationALMA EDUCATION AND ARTS FOUN…SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $145,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDAT…RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INCTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationDENISON FORUM ON TRUTH & CULTURE — $300,000 · OtherDENISON FORUM ON TR…MISS ARKANSAS FOUNDATION — $120,000 · OtherMISS ARKANSAS FOUND…AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $102,500 · OtherAT&T PERFORMING ART…GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM — $100,000 · OtherGLOBAL WAR ON TERRO…+3 more — $22,000 · OtherGLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Public BenefitKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $36,823 · Human ServicesBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $20,000 · HealthPAWS OF WAR INC — $3,000 · AnimalsLADIES AUXILIARY OF ARLINGTON INC — $1,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$2,055,000Education$940,000Other$644,500Public Benefit$50,000Human Services$36,823Health$20,000Animals$3,000Youth Development$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDALLAS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $2,050,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetALMA EDUCATION AND ARTS FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $145,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $36,823 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORT SMITH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE PISTON FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLADIES AUXILIARY OF ARLINGTON INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ted and Shannon Skokos 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Ted and Shannon Skokos Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ted and Shannon Skokos 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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