Michigan · Nonprofit
THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION
THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,100,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,063 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,063 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Detroit Economic Growth Associationlocal
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1.5M → $600k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Detroit Economic Growth AssociationlocalMI · funds 961 organizations near you
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold and Carole Pump Foundation (Fka the Harold Pump Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Everybody Wins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sugar Ray Leonard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph and Cheryl Marino Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kenny Jacob Rudin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harbaugh George & Betty Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bernice and Milton Stern Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SKILLMAN 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION?
- THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,100,000 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($2,100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,100,000 in grants to THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SKILLMAN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing