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The Skoll Foundation

Name: The Skoll Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

667
grants reported: $207.3M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $100,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

membership health core climate global social coalition

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

General operating support for social entrepreneurs and their organizations
Global health delivery: community health workers, pandemic prevention, outbreak surveillance
US democracy infrastructure: voting access, election administration, disinformation
Tropical forest and land rights work in Brazil and Indonesia
Field-building convenings, media partnerships, Skoll World Forum delegate support
Impact investing and blended finance intermediaries

Typical grant

Median grant is $100,000, with the middle half between $15,000 and $300,000. The very large checks are one-off institutional bets: $7 million to Mayo Clinic for bio-therapeutics research, $3 million to the Global Fund, $2 million to Protect Democracy, $1.5 million to the Oxford Skoll Centre. Repeat giving is normal and often split across multiple payments in the same year, and several grantees (Last Mile Health, Living Goods, Nossas Cidades, Khushi Baby, 2X Global) show up two or three times.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT”
“CORE SUPPORT”
“SYSTEMS CHANGE”
“2025 SKOLL WORLD FORUM DELEGATE SUPPORT”
“ECOSYSTEM SUPPORT”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame the ask as unrestricted core support for an organization, not a discrete research project.
Connect to pandemic prevention, community health workers, or forest and land rights, their three densest clusters.
Ask $100,000 to $300,000 for a first grant; seven-figure asks go to established institutions.
Name a named social entrepreneur leading the work and the system they are trying to change.

Worth knowing: This is relationship-driven money flowing through the Skoll Awards and Skoll World Forum orbit, and several grants literally pay for forum delegate attendance. Giving is heavily international (Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, UK) despite the CA/DC/NY registration addresses, and a US democracy portfolio has grown alongside the global health and climate work.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Mayo Clinic2 grants · $18.5M
Mayo Clinic1 grant · $8.2M
New Venture Fund7 grants · $6.8M
Global Fund To Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria2 grants · $5.0M
The Alliance for Climate Protection1 grant · $4.0M
Last Mile Health3 grants · $3.1M
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford2 grants · $3.1M
The One Campaign1 grant · $3.0M
Resolve To Save Lives1 grant · $3.0M
The One Campaign1 grant · $3.0M

Giving over time

$109.9M

2022

$55.7M

2023

$41.8M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 667 grants.

$11.4M
Mayo Clinic · Rochester, MN · 2022
Novel bio-therapeutics research
$8.2M
Mayo Clinic · Rochester, MN · 2023
novel bio-therapeutics research
$7.0M
Mayo Clinic · Rochester, MN · 2024
Novel bio-therapeutics research
$4.0M
The Alliance for Climate Protection · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support
$3.0M
Global Fund To Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria · 2024
Africa frontline first catalytic fund
$3.0M
The One Campaign · Washington, DC · 2023
General Operating Support
$3.0M
Resolve To Save Lives · New York, NY · 2022
Prevent epidemics initiative
$3.0M
The One Campaign · Washington, DC · 2022
Core support
$2.3M
University of Arizona Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Creation of Ending Pandemics Academy and establishing an Ending Pandemics endowed chair position
$2.3M
Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2022
Ecosystem support and general operating support
$2.1M
Last Mile Health · Boston, MA · 2022
General operating support
$2.0M
Protect Democracy Project · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support
$2.0M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
BuildUS Fund
$2.0M
Global Fund To Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria · 2023
Africa Frontline First Catalytic Fund
$2.0M
Global Fund To Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria · 2022
Africa frontline first catalytic fund
$2.0M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Co-impact: round 2 systems change grants
$2.0M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Center for secure and modern elections
$1.8M
Nia Tero Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
Biocultural monitoring system & indigenous resource hub
$1.6M
Global Steering Group for Impact Investment · 2022
General operating support
$1.6M
Ted Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Audacious project
$1.6M
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford · 2022
Skoll centre for social entrepreneurship
$1.6M
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford · 2024
Skoll centre for social entrepreneurship
$1.5M
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Buildus fund
$1.5M
Instituto Conexoes Sustentaveis · 2022
Ecosystem support and general operating support
$1.4M
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford · 2023
Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
$1.4M
Living Goods · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating support
$1.4M
Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara · 2022
Ecosystem support and general operating support
$1.3M
Ceres · Boston, MA · 2022
General operating support
$1.3M
Nossas Cidades · 2022
Core support
$1.3M
King Baudouin Foundation United States · New York, NY · 2022
The wellbeing project: social innovators support and global network expansion
$1.2M
Swasti · 2022
Precision public health response platform
$1.2M
2x Global Limited · 2024
Climate gender equity fund
$1.2M
Colorofchangeorg Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating support
$1.2M
Financial Health Network · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating support
$1.1M
Ndn Collective · Rapid City, SD · 2022
Core support
$1.1M
Fair Count · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General operating support
$1.1M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Co-impact: round 3 systems change grants
$1.1M
Freethink Media · Washington, DC · 2022
The crossroads a freethink originals series
$1.1M
Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2022
Catalyst market at catalyst 2030
$1.0M
Mpedigree Network Limited · 2024
Improve traceability and prevent fraudulent supply chain inputs in tanzania.
$1.0M
University of Arizona Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Creation of ending pandemics academy and establishing an ending pandemics endowed chair position
$1.0M
Amref Health Africa · 2023
General Operating Support
$1.0M
Chapel & York US Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Catalyst 2030
$1.0M
Health Initiative · Concord, MA · 2023
General Operating Support
$1.0M
Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team United States · Washington, DC · 2023
Core Support
$1.0M
Muso · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General Operating Support
$1.0M
Redeemer'S University Ltdgte · 2023
Sentinel
$1.0M
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Methane Hub
$1.0M
Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2022
Decolonizing wealth project
$1.0M
Amref Health Africa · 2022
General operating support
$1.0M
Rights and Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support
$1.0M
The Elders Foundation · 2022
General operating support
$1.0M
Vote Run Lead · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$1.0M
Voter Registration Project · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support
$1.0M
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Methane hub
$918,750
Freethink Media · Washington, DC · 2024
"rethinking possible" content series
$872,000
Give2asia · Oakland, CA · 2022
Institute of public and environmental affairs
$866,000
Common Future · Oakland, CA · 2022
Core support
$866,000
Noora Health · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Core support
$850,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022
Global common alliance's iplc reporting initiative
$800,000
Avina Americas · Washington, DC · 2024
Mapbiomas
$800,000
Food for Education Foundation · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
General operating support
$800,000
Social Finance Israel Ltd (Cc) · 2024
Social finance innovations in israel
$800,000
Clean Tech Innovation and Acceleration Foundation · 2023
General Operating Support
$800,000
African Food Changemakers Institute Ltd · 2022
Brace and the 25 leading women in food and agriculture fellowship program
$800,000
Equis Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Latino political innovation zone, search, and youtube projects
$800,000
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022
Global health security tracking tool
$800,000
Ploughshares Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General operating support
$800,000
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
The heartland fund
$750,000
Reach Digital Health Npc · 2024
Ecosystem support and general operating support
$750,000
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Restore local program
$750,000
Doc Society · 2023
General Operating Support
$750,000
Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team United States · Washington, DC · 2023
Core Support
$750,000
Reach Digital Health Npc · 2023
Ecosystem support and General Operating Support
$750,000
Sanergy · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Inspiring Regeneration Through The Circular Economy
$750,000
Ted Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
2024 TED Programs
$750,000
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
Restore Local program
$750,000
American Sustainable Business Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support
$750,000
Hip Hop Public Health · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$750,000
Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2022
Pandemic action network
$750,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022
Grantmakers for girls of color
$750,000
The Bridgespan Group · Boston, MA · 2022
Field building towards equitable systems change
$700,000
Institut Pasteur De Dakar · 2023
General Operating Support
$700,000
Global Impact Investing Network · New York, NY · 2022
New capitalism project
$665,000
Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2022
Equitable distribution of federal resources at hyphen
$650,000
Ted Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Audacious project
$650,000
Global Health Informatics Institute · 2022
Oxygen advocacy: building a culture of maintenance & repair to strengthen health systems in ssa
$625,000
Muso · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General operating support
$613,005
Khushi Baby · El Dorado Hills, CA · 2024
General operating support
$610,000
Institute of Sustainable Connections · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
General operating support
$600,000
Redeemer'S University Ltdgte · 2024
Sentinel
$600,000
Health Initiative · Concord, MA · 2023
General Operating Support
$600,000
Jan Sahas USA · Washington, DC · 2023
General Operating Support
$600,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Voting rights lab
$600,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Llluminative
$600,000
Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2022
Climate advocacy lab
$600,000
Redeemer'S University Ltdgte · 2022
Sentinel
$600,000
Taproot Earth · Tulsa, OK · 2022
General operating support
$579,726
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023
O'Neill Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health
$560,000
Dasra · Houston, TX · 2022
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