Illinois · Nonprofit
SKIN OF STEEL NFP
SKIN OF STEEL NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,817 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,085). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $0
What Skin of Steel Nfp does
Mission
Skin of steel's primary exempt purpose is to provoke revolutionary personal, behavioral, and institutional change in dealing with melanoma. Skin of steel's primary focus is to establish a national melanoma tissue bank so that researchers have access to the critical tool they need for research: fresh frozen primary tissue.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Research through advocating for and supporting the development of a national melanoma tissue bank to advance research capabilities and providing patient perspective to pharmaceutical industry oncology departments. This included: a) working with principal investigators from northwestern university, university of pittsburgh medical center, oregon health & science university and california pacific medical center, aim at melanoma and melanoma tissue bank consortium on the parameters, guidelines and standards for the first national, collaborative melanoma tissue bank, b) speaking at forums and other events of the need for a national, collaborative melanoma tissue bank for melanoma research and speaking events about the importance of melanoma prevention through sun safety c) making a grant to the melanoma tissue bank consortium.
$58,100 spentof which $56,852 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,100.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $99k to $25k (−75%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Katherine Byrnes
Exec dir/secretary/treasur
Board chair
Steve Sullivan
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $53 → $408.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 SKIN OF STEEL NFP’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
SKIN OF STEEL NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
63% 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 SKIN OF STEEL NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 80% · 2023 98% — 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
63% of SKIN OF STEEL NFP's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Organizations like SKIN OF STEEL NFP
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SKIN OF STEEL NFP: 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 SKIN OF STEEL NFP?
- SKIN OF STEEL NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,817 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,085). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SKIN OF STEEL NFP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,817 in grants to SKIN OF STEEL NFP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKIN OF STEEL NFP?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKIN OF STEEL NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 3 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