Skipping Stones

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
931095484
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Eugene, OR, USA
Phone
5413424956
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$110,765
Expenses
$106,754
Assets
$162,035
Liabilities
$9,288

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RONALD MARSON (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ARUN N TOKE (EXECUTIVE EDITOR)
  • RONALD MARSON (PRESIDENT)
  • STEPHEN MALLERY (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

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.

What it reported doing in 2025

CODE: 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.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 73% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.5%; rating input score 97
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 60.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $107K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.