South Carolina · Private foundation
Betty & James K Stone Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $305k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 46
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Betty & James K Stone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $298k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $215k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $228k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $232k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $200k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $461k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spartanburg Day School | $708,950 | 6 | 2% |
| Converse University | $54,203 | 5 | 0% |
| The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc | $21,387 | 4 | 0% |
| Spartanburg Community College Foundation Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Partners for Active Living | $11,165 | 5 | 0% |
| Goforth Recovery | $11,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Project Rest | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Charleston Animal Society | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Directors' Invitational Ski Classic | $9,580 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($696k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Betty & James K Stone Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Balmer Foundation · Gibbs Charitable Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc
How this is measured
About Betty & James K Stone Foundation
- How much does Betty & James K Stone Foundation give?
- Betty & James K Stone Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $304,544 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 46 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Betty & James K Stone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Religion (15%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Betty & James K Stone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Spartanburg Day School ($709k), Converse University ($54k), The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ($30k).
- Does Betty & James K Stone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Betty & James K Stone Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Betty & James K Stone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spartanburg County Foundation, Arkwright Foundation, J M Smith Foundation.
- Where is Betty & James K Stone Foundation based?
- Betty & James K Stone Foundation is based in SC.
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