Oregon · Nonprofit
SKIPPING STONES
SKIPPING STONES (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,826 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($127,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $294k
- Net assets
- $153k
What Skipping Stones does
Mission
Promoting multicultural, global, ecological and nature awareness and understanding in today's youth. We publish and distribute Skipping Stones, our multicultural and nature education magazine for students and educators. Frequency: semiannual in print and more online material. We also maintain an extensive website with articles, poems, photos, artwork, and stories by students and educators. The digital content is both from our print issues and recent submissions. In 2025, we published two print issues, two digital issues, and also more online content. It is available FREE for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
CODE: 511120. Published an ad-free, multicultural and nature awareness magazine for students and educators, to promote creative writing, visual arts and critical thinking in youth. Print run: 800. Printed Issues: 2, Online Issues: 2. Subscribers: schools, libraries and families. Also, free online content including all issues. Our content is also available on several full-text websites.
$75,000 spent70% of program spendingCODE: 511120. We held two annual honor awards programs to recognize multicultural awareness and nature education in juvenile literature, and teaching resources. Youth Awards serve students and educators; Book Awards promote multicultural & nature awareness in children's books. Approx. 300 entrants. The programs serve many thousands of students and educators, as well as authors and publishers of books.
$25,000 spent23% of program spendingEducational reading material for low-income families, schools, and libraries. We have sent approx. 60 free subscriptions, as well as hundreds of back issues and children's books to many schools and educators and families, both near and far. The expenses were covered by donations and grants received from supporters and foundations. This is an estimate of the expenses incurred.
$6,750 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $106,750.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $125k to $67k (−46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
22% of SKIPPING STONES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $31k → $7k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SKIPPING STONES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SKIPPING STONES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SKIPPING STONES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 39% · 2020 50% · 2021 84% · 2022 100% · 2023 84% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
58% of SKIPPING STONES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $124k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SKIPPING STONES's revenue fell 56% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SKIPPING STONES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SKIPPING STONES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SKIPPING STONES?
- SKIPPING STONES (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,826 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($127,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SKIPPING STONES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $293,826 in grants to SKIPPING STONES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKIPPING STONES?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $127,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKIPPING STONES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing