Hawaii · 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.
- $250k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
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.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $178,315
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Skipping Stone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $72k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $268k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $4k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $31k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $23k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $10k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $17k | 78% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Responsible Forestry | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sylvia Center for the Arts | $5,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Allied Arts of Whatcom County | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Opportunity Council | $2,488 | 1 | 0% |
| Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Whatcom Museum Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bellingham Public School Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sustainable Connections | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kulshan Community Land Trust | $1,030 | 1 | 0% |
| Interactive Bellingham | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($436k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Skipping Stone Foundation
- How much does Skipping Stone Foundation give?
- Skipping Stone Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $249,890 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Skipping Stone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Philanthropy (43%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Skipping Stone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center for Responsible Forestry ($5k), Sylvia Center for the Arts ($5k), Allied Arts of Whatcom County ($3k).
- Does Skipping Stone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Skipping Stone Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Skipping Stone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whatcom Community Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, First Fed Foundation.
- Where is Skipping Stone Foundation based?
- Skipping Stone Foundation is based in HI.
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