Funder Standing / The Skillman Foundation

The Skillman Foundation

MI · EIN 381675780 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

131 of 309 organizations The Skillman Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 43.5%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
43.5%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$10,000
Range $50 – $500,000
Repeat-dollar share
84.0%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
99.4%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
WARREN CONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION INC DBA EASTSIDE COMMUNITY NETWORK$659,500
MICHIGAN'S THANKSGIVING PARADE$585,000
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC$583,500
METRO SOLUTIONS INC$553,000
DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND$535,000
482FORWARD$422,000
BLACK MALE EDUCATORS ALLIANCE$410,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT$405,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$400,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$350,100
DETROIT PARENT NETWORK$350,000
THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$305,000
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS$300,000
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN$275,775
CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$260,000
MICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION$251,100
NEW PARADIGM FOR EDUCATION$250,000
BFDI EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC$250,000
DETROIT 9090$250,000
DETROIT ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES$250,000
AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN$205,000
LAUNCH MICHIGANnew$200,000
TEACH PLUS INCORPORATEDnew$200,000
SER METRO DETROIT-JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC$195,984
DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC$190,000

Showing the 25 largest of 309 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what The Skillman Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

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Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.