Grants Maps
The Skillman Foundation has partnered with the New York City-based Foundation Center to provide Skillman Foundation website visitors with a custom version of the Foundation Center’s Philanthropy In/Sight data visualization platform, which utilizes Google maps to show the scope and reach of the Skillman Foundation’s work in Detroit.
Philanthropy In/Sight: Skillman maps all Skillman Foundation grants – greater than $1,000 from 2007 to the present – awarded to Detroit nonprofits.
Philanthropy In/Sight: Skillman is designed for fellow grantmakers, grant seekers, policymakers, researchers, journalists, and academics. Users can overlay grant data with additional demographic, socio-economic, and other data sets to create compelling visual portraits showing where the Skillman Foundation is making an impact, and where opportunities exist to fill critical needs.
Skillman Foundation website visitors can create maps to visualize the scope and reach of our work to:
- Open map pins for information on any nonprofit organization, and drill down for details about grants
- Focus on issues and neighborhoods where the Skillman Foundation works
- Use Google zoom tools to focus near or far
Philanthropy In/Sight: Skillman is a powerful tool for transparency that will be updated regularly. Both the Skillman Foundation and the Foundation Center believe this powerful new tool, which was funded, in part, by a Skillman Foundation grant to the Foundation Center, can be replicated by other place-based foundations across the country.