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THE SKOLL FUND

EIN 77-0528216 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA

Revenue 2024
$75,248,928
Expenses 2024
$59,643,539

Program services were 94.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T11
Classification
1000
Street
444 CASTRO ST STE 140

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE SKOLL FUND IS A SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION. TOGETHER WITH THE SKOLL FOUNDATION, A PRIVATE FOUNDATION, ITS MISSION IS TO CATALYZE TRANSFORMATIONAL SOCIAL CHANGE BY INVESTING IN, CONNECTING, AND CHAMPIONING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS AND OTHER SOCIAL INNOVATORS WHO TOGETHER ADVANCE BOLD AND EQUITABLE SOLUTIONS TO THE WORLD'S MOST PRESSING PROBLEMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CATALYZE TRANSFORMATIONAL SOCIAL CHANGE BY INVESTING IN, CONNECTING, AND CHAMPIONING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS AND OTHER SOCIAL INNOVATORS WHO TOGETHER ADVANCE BOLD AND EQUITABLE SOLUTIONS TO THE WORLD'S MOST PRESSING PROBLEMS.

  • INVEST - WE INVEST IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS AND OTHER SOCIAL INNOVATORS WHO OFFER A COMPELLING VISION, CREATIVE SOLUTIONS, AND PROVEN APPROACHES.

    Expenses $47,311,996 · Grants $47,202,682

  • CONNECT & CHAMPION - WE CONNECT OUR COMMUNITY TO DRIVE TOWARDS TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE THROUGH OUR GLOBAL NETWORK AND CONVENINGS LIKE THE SKOLL WORLD FORUM TO SHARE LEARNINGS, JOIN FORCES, AND ACHIEVE AMBITIOUS GOALS WITH OTHER SOCIAL INNOVATORS, FUNDERS, AND KEY STAKEHOLDERS. WE USE OUR VOICE AND GLOBAL AUDIENCE TO CHAMPION THE WORK OF SOCIAL INNOVATORS, HELPING EXTEND THEIR REACH AND EXPAND THEIR IMPACT. COMBINING STORYTELLING, THOUGHT LEADERSHIP, AND STRATEGIC ALLIANCES, WE SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS TO MOBILIZE MORE RESOURCES AND CREATE MOMENTUM FOR LASTING SOCIAL CHANGE

    Expenses $4,626,476 · Grants $4,615,786

  • SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY & OTHER - WE SUPPORT TIMELY OPPORTUNITIES THAT HELP ADVANCE THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION

    Expenses $4,324,993 · Grants $4,315,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JAMES GB DEMARTINI III

    CHAIR, DONOR CLASS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SHASHI BULUSWAR

    DONOR CLASS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHERYL DORSEY

    CONTROLLING ORGANIZATION CLASS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • PAT MITCHELL

    CONTROLLING ORGANIZATION CLASS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • RAJESH PANJABI

    CONTROLLING ORGANIZATION CLASS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • GAYLE SMITH

    CONTROLLING ORGANIZATION CLASS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • LINDSEY SPINDLE

    DONOR CLASS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DON GIPS

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • MARLA BLOW

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRUCE LOWRY

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DEBBIE SANTOS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $75,248,928
    Expenses
    $59,643,539
    Contributions
    $33,037,914
    Grants paid
    $56,133,469
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $32,535,459
    Expenses
    $53,860,192
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $50,944,085
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $41,630,175
    Expenses
    $3,853,361
    Contributions
    $11,930,960
    Grants paid
    $250,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $96,699,445
    Expenses
    $30,575,992
    Assets (EOY)
    $894,684,857

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $115,948,562
    Expenses
    $54,676,122
    Assets (EOY)
    $900,589,084

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $58,341,808
    Expenses
    $18,039,000
    Assets (EOY)
    $636,295,717

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $18,162,677
    Expenses
    $48,103,805
    Assets (EOY)
    $546,465,543

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $33,056,853
    Expenses
    $30,008,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $578,488,787

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • TSF FORE LLC

    INVESTMENT · DE · income $0 · assets $1,061,028

Related partnerships on its 2024 return

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.