· Private foundation
Skipping Stone Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Skipping Stone Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Hawaii Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $178,315 |
| WHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO | $35,000 |
| EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,575 |
| WESTERN WA UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WCWHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO6× · 2019–2025 · $275k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I2× · 2024–2025 · $52k
- ESEVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE6× · 2017–2025 · $43k
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION S PUGET SOUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- WTWASHINGTON TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESEone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CFCENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FORESTRYone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -28%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The wcc foundation strengthens educational opportunities by providing student scholarships, supporting faculty and staff development, and assisting with key college initiatives.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
Foster Growth in the Community
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
Advocate for tax policy in Washington State
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition's (WMBC) mission is to preserve and enhance non-motorized trail access in Whatcom County through stewardship, education and advocacy.WMBC is a federal non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We work with many…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whatcom Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Center for Responsible Forestry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYLVIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FORESTRY ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds THE BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Whatcom Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · First Fed Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of Whatcom County · Mount Baker Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · Mary H Storer Foundation · Riverstyx Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Skipping Stone Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.