· Private foundation
Ira & Sheila Stone Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COUNCIL JEWISH ELDERLY | $110,000 |
| ALL CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| EISENHOWER HEARING FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT | $15,000 |
| GRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION | $13,000 |
| PS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC | $12,377 |
| HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| JONATHAN PHILIP REDER FUND | $10,000 |
| MILLENIUM PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| DEBORAH'S PLACE | $5,000 |
| CARE FOR REAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,888 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY6× · 2019–2024 · $161k · revenue +475%
- GPGRANT PARK ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +95%
CARE FOR REAL5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IIIMPACT ISREALone grant, 2021 · $36k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- CECHUCK EVANS SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Chicago Parks Foundation is a separate 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that also serves as the strategic partner for the coordination of fundraising and charitable resources for the Chicago Park District.
The organization is organized and will be operated exclusively for charitable, literary, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of code section 501(c)(3), including for such purposes, but not limited to, the promotion of…
To raise and distribute funds, goods, food, and assistance to the poverty-stricken in the jewish community.
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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: The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ira & Sheila Stone Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ira & Sheila Stone Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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