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Five Stones Fund Inc Fka Albert Shapiro Fund at a glance

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Five Stones Fund Inc Fka Albert Shapiro Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$732k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$107k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.4MHealth$1.1MReligion$321kHuman Services$305kFood & Nutrition$292kArts & Culture$264kHousing & Shelter$261kScience & Tech$144kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $218k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $487k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TAMPA BAY$15,000
ARMORY ART CENTER$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $45k → 13%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $40k → 13%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $20k → 13%Pine Street Inn: $23k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $23k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $20k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $20k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $20k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%Catie's Closet: $2k → 8%Catie's Closet: $2k → 8%Catie's Closet: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
CA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 45 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
4

Total granted

$4.1M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+59%

Still filing today

60%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $820k · revenue +67%
  • MA
    MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +22%
  • FA
    FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $256k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TAMPA
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +59%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bentley University

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Western New England University

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…

Education
4
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
6
Lowell Observatory

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…

Science & Tech
7
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
8
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
The Broad Institute Inc

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.…

Health
10
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Dickinson College

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

Education
12
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Harvard Medical School - Neurobiology Graduate Fellowship Fund: $355,886 · OtherHarvard Medical School - Neurobiology Graduate Fel…Johns Hopkins University - Whiting School of Engineering: $160,000 · OtherJohns Hopkins University - Whiting School of Engin…ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $145,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAULHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $140,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES - TAMPA: $130,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES - TAMPAST ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $95,000 · OtherINJURED MARINE SEMPER FI FUND - WOUNDED WARRIER CENTER: $87,500 · OtherCASA OF ST PETERSBURG: $85,500 · OtherMassachusetts General Hospital - Velmahos Research Fund: $85,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $83,000 · OtherSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $75,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HOUSE - ENDOWMENT FUND: $65,782 · Other+22 more: $414,990 · Other+22 moreCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $820,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIO…ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG: $77,500 · EducationACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST …HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $35,000 · Education+3 more: $62,500 · Education+3 moreMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $290,000 · HealthMOUNT AUBUR…THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $135,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON…MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $144,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $112,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SY…THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARMOR…THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $21,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FLORI…+2 more: $12,000 · Arts & CultureFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $256,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $17,500 · Food & NutritionPINE STREET INN INC: $111,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $105,000 · Human Services+1 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $82,500 · Public Benefit
Other$1,922,658Education$995,000Health$425,000Arts & Culture$354,000Food & Nutrition$273,500Human Services$222,000Public Benefit$82,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $820,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $290,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $256,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $144,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $112,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $111,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $83,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $82,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG: $77,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARMORY ART CENTER INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $44,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Five Stones Fund Inc Fka Albert Shapiro Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Five Stones Fund Inc Fka Albert Shapiro Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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