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Skillz 4 Life Inc

Skillz 4 Life Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $733,549 to it, the largest being METRO UNITED WAY INC ($513,352). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$670k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$734k
Net assets
$157k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Skillz 4 Life Inc does

Mission

To break the cycle of poverty by connecting children, adults and families with skills, information and high quality services they need to achieve their greatest potential.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Building skills in children in the areas of school readiness, communication, physical health, social well being, academic success and leadership.

    $624,390 spentof which $37,759 as grants$157,122 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $624,390.

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 ($374k) Expenses 100 ($375k) Net assets 100 ($855)2021 Revenue 161 ($601k) Expenses 149 ($558k) Net assets 5015 ($43k)2022 Revenue 205 ($768k) Expenses 190 ($711k) Net assets 13909 ($119k)2023 Revenue 280 ($1.0M) Expenses 271 ($1.0M) Net assets 17753 ($152k)2024 Revenue 223 ($833k) Expenses 218 ($818k) Net assets 19466 ($166k)2025 Revenue 179 ($670k) Expenses 181 ($680k) Net assets 18372 ($157k)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (179)Expenses (181)Net assets (18372)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 2021 to 2022, from $85k to $162k (+91%).

$855
$85k
$162k
$186k
$214k
$240k
201920212022202320242025
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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 76% · 2021 78% · 2022 86% · 2023 80% · 2024 78% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of Skillz 4 Life Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$508
’19
$43k
’21
$57k
’22
$33k
’23
$15k
’24
−$9k
’25
0.1
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

Kofi Darku

Co-Executive Director

Board chair

Danielle Deshields

Board Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201920212022202320242025
Listed995556
Joined··+0+0+0+1
No longer listed··4000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $168k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Skillz 4 Life Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Skillz 4 Life Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82% 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 Skillz 4 Life Inc.

70%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 79% · 2021 81% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

80% of Skillz 4 Life Inc's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

NY
OH
KY

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Skillz 4 Life Inc has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Skillz 4 Life Inc

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In Kentucky

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
67%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Skillz 4 Life Inc?
Skillz 4 Life Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $733,549 to it, the largest being METRO UNITED WAY INC ($513,352). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Skillz 4 Life Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $733,549 in grants to Skillz 4 Life Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Skillz 4 Life Inc?
METRO UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $513,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Skillz 4 Life Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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