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The Skadden Foundation: 88 grants to organizations, $5 million (tax year ended December 2024)
The Skadden Foundation, a private foundation in White Plains, NY, paid 88 grants to organizations totaling $5,008,993 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 17, 2025. The largest was $505,860 to American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc in New York, NY for payment for fellows.
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- EIN
- 133455231
- Based in
- White Plains, NY
- Assets
- $11,242,596
- Grants paid
- $5,080,991
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 17, 2025, IRS object ID 202503219349104045. It reported $5,080,991 in grants paid; 88 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $505,860 | apps.irs.gov |
| New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $213,868 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lawyers Comm for Civil Rights Under Law | Washington, DC | Payment for fellows | $119,468 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Public Justice Foundation | Oakland, CA | Payment for fellows | $114,067 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Legal Aid Chicago | Chicago, IL | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $110,001 | apps.irs.gov |
| Greater Boston Legal | Boston, MA | Payment for fellows | $101,457 | apps.irs.gov | |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | Oklahoma City, OK | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $89,343 | apps.irs.gov |
| Bronx Legal Services | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | $88,489 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | $88,109 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Housing Works Inc | Brooklyn, NY | Payment for fellows | Community improvement and capacity building | $87,691 | apps.irs.gov |
| Education Law Center | Newark, NJ | Payment for fellows | Education | $87,420 | apps.irs.gov |
| Georgia Legal Services Program | Atlanta, GA | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $87,254 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brooklyn Defender Services | Brooklyn, NY | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $87,150 | apps.irs.gov |
| Advancement Project | Washington, DC | Payment for fellows | $84,957 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Equip for Equality | Chicago, IL | Payment for fellows | $84,517 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New York Lawyers for the Public Interest | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | $84,434 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Rights Behind Bars Inc | Washington, DC | Payment for fellows | Human services | $80,472 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation | Portland, ME | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $79,549 | apps.irs.gov |
| Northeast Legal Aid Inc | Lawrence, MA | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $79,462 | apps.irs.gov |
| Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc | Los Angeles, CA | Payment for fellows | $78,731 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Justice Action Center | Los Angeles, CA | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $77,900 | apps.irs.gov |
| Legal Services of Greater Miami | Miami, FL | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $77,548 | apps.irs.gov |
| Heartland for Jobs and Freedom | Kansas City, MO | Payment for fellows | $77,462 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Center for Youth Law | Oakland, CA | Payment for fellows | $76,484 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Montana Legal Services Association | Helena, MT | Payment for fellows | $76,464 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice | Detroit, MI | Payment for fellows | $74,471 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Disability Rights California | Sacramento, CA | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $68,896 | apps.irs.gov |
| Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | $65,412 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Public Counsel | Los Angeles, CA | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $61,486 | apps.irs.gov |
| Legal Assistance of Western Ny | Geneva, NY | Payment for fellows | $58,012 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Central American Refugee Center Carecen Ny | Hempstead, NY | Payment for fellows | Human services | $54,477 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Foundation | Newark, NJ | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $51,350 | apps.irs.gov |
| Make the Road New York | Brooklyn, NY | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $49,451 | apps.irs.gov |
| Raise the Floor Alliance | Chicago, IL | Payment for fellows | $49,084 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Whitman-Walker Health System Inc | Washington, DC | Payment for fellows | Health care | $48,845 | apps.irs.gov |
| New York Legal Assistance Group | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | $48,395 | apps.irs.gov | |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska Foundation | Anchorage, AK | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $47,710 | apps.irs.gov |
| New Economy Project | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | Community improvement and capacity building | $45,942 | apps.irs.gov |
| Tennesse Justice Center | Nashville, TN | Payment for fellows | $45,918 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Project On Predatory Student Lending | Jamaica Plain, MA | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $45,749 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Legal Aid Society | Washington, DC | Payment for fellows | $44,898 | apps.irs.gov | |
| A Better Balance | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | Social science | $44,732 | apps.irs.gov |
| Minnesota Center for Environmental Advoc | Saint Paul, MN | Payment for fellows | $44,619 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition | Nashville, TN | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $44,405 | apps.irs.gov |
| Aclu Foundation of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Payment for fellows | $44,080 | apps.irs.gov | |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $43,547 | apps.irs.gov |
| Family Justice Law Center | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $43,211 | apps.irs.gov |
| California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice | Oakland, CA | Payment for fellows | $42,611 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Indiana Legal Services | Indianapolis, IN | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $42,280 | apps.irs.gov |
| Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | $41,627 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Naacp | Baltimore, MD | Payment for fellows | $41,078 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Consumer Law Center | Boston, MA | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $40,942 | apps.irs.gov |
| Communities Resist | Brooklyn, NY | Payment for fellows | Housing and shelter | $39,876 | apps.irs.gov |
| Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | Payment for fellows | Human services | $39,729 | apps.irs.gov |
| Oregon Law Center | Portland, OR | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $39,703 | apps.irs.gov |
| Community Legal Aid Inc | Worcester, MA | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $39,251 | apps.irs.gov |
| National Immigrant Justice Center | Chicago, IL | Payment for fellows | $39,105 | apps.irs.gov | |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of KS | Overland Park, KS | Payment for fellows | $38,895 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice | Des Moines, IA | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $38,525 | apps.irs.gov |
| Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project | New York, NY | Payment for fellows | Human services | $38,457 | apps.irs.gov |
| Tribal Law and Policy Institute | West Hollywood, CA | Payment for fellows | $38,440 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Veterans Legal Services Program | Arlington, VA | Payment for fellows | $38,003 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Dolores Street Community Services | San Francisco, CA | Payment for fellows | $37,668 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Disability Rights Education and Defense | Berkeley, CA | Payment for fellows | $37,533 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Association of the Deaf | Silver Spring, MD | Payment for fellows | $37,167 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Cair-Capital Area Immigrant's Rights | Washington, DC | Payment for fellows | $36,031 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Legal Aid of North Carolina | Greenville, NC | Payment for fellows | $35,700 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Catholic Migration Services | Brooklyn, NY | Payment for fellows | $34,982 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Legal Aid at Work | San Francisco, CA | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $30,713 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California | San Francisco, CA | Payment for fellows | $28,324 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Advocates for Trans Equality Education Fund | Washington, DC | Payment for fellows | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $22,314 | apps.irs.gov |
| Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | Payment for fellows | Crime and legal-related | $20,952 | apps.irs.gov |
| Advancement Project Education Fund | Washington, DC | FIG GRANT - Create and distribute a zine (an illustrated comic resource) to help educate and inform students, parents and their communities about the growth and harms of surveillance in schools. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Albany Law School | Albany, NY | FIG GRANT -Creation of a computer game designed to provide youth with an engaging way to learn how to secure repairs from their landlords under New York State law. The funds sought through the FIG pro | Education | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| American Diabetes Association | Arlington, VA | FIG GRANT - Support the relaunching of the ADA's Fighting for Fairness Program which will provide six webinars that provide CLE credit to educate lawyers and advocates about challenging discrimination | Diseases, disorders and medical disciplines | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice | San Francisco, CA | FIG GRANT - Create and implement several Know Your Rights and community power-building trainings for AAPI communities in rural or isolated low-income areas across the country to have the knowledge and | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project | New York, NY | FIG GRANT - Support the final phase of a first-of-its-kind litigation campaign to secure compensation for hundreds of immigrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under the "Zero Tolerance" | Human services | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Centro Legal de La Raza | Oakland, CA | FIG GRANT - Develop, pilot and co-facilitate a training for pro se, asylum seeking respondents in immigration court to harness the experience of successful asylees and empower this new generation of i | Crime and legal-related | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Mobilization for Justice | New York, NY | FIG GRANT - Provide support for the Supportive Housing Organized and United Tenants (SHOUT) in carrying out their S.A.F.E. (Safe and Accountable for Everyone) supportive housing campaign. The campaign | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New York University | New York, NY | FIG GRANT - Creation of a monthly newsletter that will disseminate news of ongoing lawsuits and innovation related to workers' rights across the country to protect low-wage workers. | Education | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Social Movement Support Lab Via Fiscal Sponsor Organizing Roots LLC | San Francisco, CA | FIG GRANT - Elevate the voices and lived experiences of individuals most affected by systemic racism and shift the narratives via digital storytelling. | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Legal Aid Society | New York, NY | FIG GRANT - Create a new initiative that will expand and streamline representation of immigrant youth clients by Legal Aid's Juvenile Rights Practice by providing immigration representation within the | Crime and legal-related | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Together & Free Inc | Los Angeles, CA | FIG GRANT - Develop a legal services program to provide asylum representation to families that were separated under the Trump Administration's Zero Tolerance Policy. | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Urban Justice Center | New York, NY | FIG GRANT - Organize a six-month organizational resilience and growth accelerator to provide coaching, training, and professional development to support leaders of emerging organizations providing leg | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Inc | Washington, DC | FIG GRANT - Develop, design and distribute a comprehensive report and social media campaign that exposes the depth and breadth of the District of Columbia's public schools' poor physical condition, in | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Youth Law Center | San Francisco, CA | FIG GRANT - Develop and distribute youth-specific voting rights materials to probation departments and public defenders' offices statewide to ensure that incarcerated youth can access their right to v | Crime and legal-related | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | FIG GRANT - Supervise a series of experiments designed to test credibility assessments of tenants' claims of inadequate heat in their rental units when complemented with data from cloud-connected digi | Health care | $14,755 | apps.irs.gov |
| Diego Fernandez - Pages | White Plains, NY | Payment for fellows | $1,485 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $1,392,641 |
| Crime and legal-related | $805,779 |
| Human services | $228,135 |
| Community improvement and capacity building | $133,633 |
| Education | $117,420 |
| Health care | $63,600 |
| Social science | $44,732 |
| Housing and shelter | $39,876 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| New York | $1,855,207 |
| California | $832,885 |
| District of Columbia | $466,985 |
| Massachusetts | $306,861 |
| Illinois | $282,707 |
| New Jersey | $138,770 |
| Georgia | $102,009 |
| Tennessee | $90,323 |
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Updated November 17, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.