· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I | $2,000 |
| WESTERN WA UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- CFCENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FORESTRYone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -28%
- WTWASHINGTON TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESEone grant, 2018 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FORESTRY ↗
- Who funds SYLVIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds KULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Skipping Stone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Skipping Stone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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