California · Nonprofit
SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION
SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,855 to it, the largest being BELLA AND DON BARDEN FOUNDATION INC ($107,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Skull and Dagger Foundation does
Mission
Supports students, academics and history at the University of Southern California
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Foundation awards academic scholarships to deserving USC students each year and also promotes an academic mentoring program for USC students
$30,904 spentof which $30,000 as grants61% of program spendingThe Foundation supports historical projects at the University of Southern California, including the Mudd Hall carillon and the Class Markers project
$7,366 spent15% of program spendingThe Foundation supports the Wall of Scholars project honoring academic excellence at the University of Southern California.
$4,229 spent8% of program spendingAdditional program expenses include the annual new student initiation dinner and the student mentor program.
$7,770 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $50,269.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+14%).
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. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $220 → $5k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION’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
SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 83% · 2022 66% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION: 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 SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION?
- SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,855 to it, the largest being BELLA AND DON BARDEN FOUNDATION INC ($107,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $133,855 in grants to SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION?
- BELLA AND DON BARDEN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $107,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKULL AND DAGGER FOUNDATION 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.
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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 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing