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SKILLUP COALITION

SKILLUP COALITION (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,168,026 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$9.3M
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$25M
Net assets
$8.9M
14/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 100%
01What it does

What Skillup Coalition does

Mission

Skillup's mission is to provide a guided and supported path to ensure every worker has high opportunity employment.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Skillup connects workers with the right tools, resources and support, so they can make confident career shifts, find quality living-wage jobs, and position themselves for promising career growth.our goal is to ensure that every worker gains equity and dignity in the workforce through access to high-opportunity and quality employment.

    $6,289,257 spentof which $30,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,289,257.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($861k) Expenses 100 ($404k) Net assets 100 ($457k)2020 Revenue 535 ($4.6M) Expenses 570 ($2.3M) Net assets 604 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 647 ($5.6M) Expenses 1382 ($5.6M) Net assets 603 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 792 ($6.8M) Expenses 1396 ($5.6M) Net assets 863 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 965 ($8.3M) Expenses 1352 ($5.5M) Net assets 1486 ($6.8M)2024 Revenue 1079 ($9.3M) Expenses 1771 ($7.1M) Net assets 1955 ($8.9M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (1079)Expenses (1771)Net assets (1955)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.3M to $7.0M (+64%).

$861k
$2.9M
$3.2M
$4.3M
$7.0M
$9.1M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of SKILLUP COALITION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$457k
’19
$2.3M
’20
−$5k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$2.9M
’23
$2.1M
’24
7.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Steve Lee

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Josh Jarrett

Chair, secretary & treasur

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed5312121212
Joined·+3+9+2+2+0
No longer listed·50220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $861k → $6.6M.

9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of SKILLUP COALITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

SKILLUP COALITION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SKILLUP COALITION.

20%
largest funder
48%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 23% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

40% of SKILLUP COALITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

SKILLUP COALITION draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 15 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
CA
CO
VA
DE
AR
NC
DC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SKILLUP COALITION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)61% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like SKILLUP COALITION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 3%Fundraising 9%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SKILLUP COALITION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SKILLUP COALITION?
SKILLUP COALITION (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,168,026 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SKILLUP COALITION have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $25,168,026 in grants to SKILLUP COALITION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SKILLUP COALITION?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SKILLUP COALITION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 31 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing