How much does Irving I Stone Foundation give?

Irving I Stone Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $2,509,317 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Irving I Stone Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (28%), Philanthropy (28%), Education (26%).

Who are Irving I Stone Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fuchs Mizrachi Schools ($3.1M), Yeshiva University ($793k), Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ($728k).

Does Irving I Stone Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Irving I 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.

Where is Irving I Stone Foundation based?

Irving I Stone Foundation is based in OH.

Irving I Stone Foundation

Irving I Stone Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Irving I Stone Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Irving I Stone Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Cleveland, The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation, The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Penni M and Stephen J Weinberg Family Fund.

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.

$2.5M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.1M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$6.0MPhilanthropy$5.8MEducation$5.5MInternational$2.0MCommunity Improvement$519kHuman Services$455kArts & Culture$193kFood & Nutrition$144kOther$0

02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k28 grants · $113k
$10k–50k31 grants · $549k
$50k–250k5 grants · $397k
$250k+2 grants · $1.4M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND	$1,070,000
FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL	$380,000
CAMP STONE	$125,000
GREEN ROAD SYNAGOGUE	$101,960
HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND	$60,360
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY	$60,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$50,000
ADAMAH	$47,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS	$43,000
JEWISH BOOK TRUST	$40,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOL TZOFAVICH	$34,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL	$27,000
FIDF	$25,000
NEFESH B'NEFESH	$25,000
GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL	$25,000

02The need

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, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Irving I Stone Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Irving I Stone Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14M · 98 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.

98 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+54%

Still filing today

46%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

FM
FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +59%
YU
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $793k · revenue +39%
OT
Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel
7× · 2017–2023 · $728k · revenue +96%

Funded once

JF
JEWISH FEDERATION
one grant, 2020 · $850k
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NISMAT
one grant, 2017 · $167k
FO
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES
one grant, 2019 · $125k

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.

University of Judaism Foundation

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Sherit Isroel

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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion

American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International

American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion

Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation

Philanthropy

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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The Jerusalem Connection

—

Jewish Life Foundation

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 171 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/68

Grantees still filing

51/68

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$11,631,553Philanthropy$5,206,500Religion$1,515,000Education$1,302,000International$1,079,000Arts & Culture$152,812Human Services$91,800

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.

Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH46.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Penni M and Stephen J Weinberg Family Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · The Kline Family Foundation · The Weiss Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Teri and Dan German Family Foundation Inc

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 Irving I Stone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving I Stone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home