Skewes Family Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201978793
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Blue Ridge, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5409772149
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $217,095
- Expenses
- $332,499
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Grantmaking Foundations
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 36 grants totaling $281,200. The stated grant purposes included general operating, general operatin, and general fud, plus 3 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 78% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 93% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 95
- Cost Efficiency: 87
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 50
- Endowment Health: 49
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: Limited
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 17.02; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: 95.1% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: Filed self-dealing detail
- Investments: 49th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 36 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 49/100.