California · Nonprofit
SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA
SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $359,754 to it, the largest being Audacious Foundation ($247,479). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $360k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Social Skills America does
Mission
The Social Skills America mission is to provide students with the necessary skills and tools to succeed in business and in life.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Social Skills America strives to deliver a comprehensive yet simple guide to social and business etiquette. It gives participants real world life skills key to all students, regardless of where they live, are prepared for career and life. The organization provides a carefully designed curriculum, which teaches students how to politely interact with others and understand many vital social skills as well as the importance of respectful behavior in reaching their goals of independence and success.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $600.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA’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
SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 79% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 91% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
13% of SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
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
100% of SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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 SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA: 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 SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA?
- SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $359,754 to it, the largest being Audacious Foundation ($247,479). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $359,754 in grants to SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA?
- Audacious Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $247,479 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIAL SKILLS AMERICA 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 9 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