· Private foundation
James M Stoneman Charitable Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $700k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $2,900,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL | $550,000 |
| PARK STREET SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HEIGHTS | $200,000 |
| CCHC FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| HERITAGE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| IONA PREPARATORY UPPER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE WINSOR SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC | $2,500 |
| LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER | $1,000 |
| FOCUS | $1,000 |
| FESSENDEN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +70%- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation7× · 2017–2023 · $5.6M · revenue +91%
- PSPARK STREET SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $746k · revenue +61%
Funded once
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $375k · revenue +162%- BBBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF CAPE CODone grant, 2018 · $50k
- ICINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -21%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 43 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.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARK STREET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RINGGOLD PARK INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PETERS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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.
Open a dossier: The Mark S Bradley Charitable Foundation · The Baker Family Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James M Stoneman Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James M Stoneman Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc: 18% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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