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Skipper Family Foundation

Walkertown, NC · EIN 87-3519975. Reported 54 grants totalling $73,733 to 47 recipients across tax years 2022-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$73,733granted, 2022-2025
47recipients, as named on its returns
0%of grantees funded again the next year
$511,305assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Skipper Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $520 and $1,015; the smallest was $117 and the largest $7,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
14 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
37 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Reynolds Volunteer Fire DepartmentAsheville, NC$9,402322025
Marilyn ChenSalisbury, MD$7,500112025
Samaritans PurseBoone, NC$6,000222025
DiabetesAsheville, NC$3,000112024
Juvenile DiabetesAsheville, NC$2,629112025
American Heart AssociationDallas, TX$2,500112024
Hyattsville PTAHyattsville, MD$2,500112022
Oakley United Methodist ChurchAsheville, NC$2,500222025
Reynolds BaptistAsheville, NC$2,500112024
Forsyth County Animal ShelterWinston Salem, NC$2,000222025
Mt Moriah Baptist ChurchHendersonville, NC$2,000112023
New Hope KidsFletcher, NC$2,000222025
Crisis Control MinistryKernersville, NC$1,500222025
Reynolds Vol Fire DepartmentAsheville, NC$1,500112022
Short the SquirrelDaphne, AL$1,500112022
America on TechNew York City, NY$1,015112023
AbccmArden, NC$1,000112025
Aheville Community TheatreAsheville, NC$1,000112023
Allianz Fundation for North AmericaMinneapolis, MN$1,000112022
Angels of FairviewFairview, NC$1,000112024
Bcs FoundationAsheville, NC$1,000112025
Food Bank of South JerseyPennsauken, NJ$1,000112025
Haywood County SchoolsWaynesville, NC$1,000112025
HopekidsScottsdale, AZ$1,000112023
Jdrf Nc Chapter - Billy McguinnCharlotte, NC$1,000112024
Kids Fishing FoundationMillville, MN$1,000112023
Mount Moriah Baptist ChurchEdneyville, NC$1,000112025
Mustard Seed Community HealthGreensboro, NC$1,000112025
Oak Ridge Horse ShowOak Ridge, NC$1,000112024
Oakley UMCAsheville, NC$1,000112022
Puffball Paradise Rabbit SanctuarySicklerville, NJ$1,000112025
Reynolds Fire DepartmentAsheville, NC$1,000112023
Second Harvest Food BankGreensboro, NC$1,000112025
Sridhar Koneru Silicon Andhra HospitalBrooklyn Park, MN$1,000112025
Triad Honor FlightGreensboro, NC$1,000112025
Savannah Arts AcademySavannah, GA$520112025
Bearwallow Baptist ChurchGerton, NC$500112023
Big Level Baptist ChurchMill Spring, NC$500112025
Meadows of Dan Volunteer Fire DeptMeadows of Dan, VA$500112025
Shepherds CenterWinston Salem, NC$500112025
Walkertown Fire DeptWalkertown, NC$500112025
Walkertown Youth BaseballWalkertown, NC$500112025
Jerry DotsonAsheville, NC$300112025
Bryan MeltonEdneyville, NC$250112025
Cristy PerryAsheville, NC$250112025
Robert Griffin Rhyne Heights ChurchLincolnton, NC$250112025
Transformation VillageAsheville, NC$117112022

6 of 47 (13%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 0%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 13 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Public Safety & Disaster Relief
3 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Education
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Religion
2 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Public & Societal Benefit
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20226$7,617$1,250
20239$10,015$1,000
202411$26,402$2,500
202528$29,699$1,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

70% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

North Carolina
$52K
Maryland
$10K
Minnesota
$3K
Texas
$2K
New Jersey
$2K
Alabama
$2K
New York
$1K
Arizona
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust4 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in North Carolina.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Related guides

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Skipper Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 7280 Tin Roof Trail, Walkertown, NC, 27051. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 87-3519975 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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