· Private foundation
Five Stones Fund Inc Fka Albert Shapiro Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of FIVE STONES FUND INC FKA ALBERT SHAPIRO FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $218k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $487k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $107,000 |
| FEEDING TAMPA BAY | $100,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES - TAMPA | $80,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $75,000 |
| ST PETE FREE CLINIC | $75,000 |
| JACKSON LABORATORY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN TX | $30,000 |
| MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| ST ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CASA OF ST PETERSBURG | $22,500 |
| ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG | $20,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| ARMORY ART CENTER | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TAMPA BAY | $15,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $820k · revenue +67%
- MAMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +11%
- FAFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $256k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TAMPAone grant, 2023 · $5k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mount Auburn Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Five Stones Fund Inc Fka Albert Shapiro Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- The Armory Art Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.