· Private foundation
Jane W and David M Stone Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $185,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB | $145,000 |
| SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH OF EVANSTON | $60,000 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $50,000 |
| LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| LA CASA NORTE | $40,000 |
| NEW LIFE CENTERS | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| HILLSIDE FOOD PANTRY | $20,000 |
| BEARS CARE | $17,500 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| KENILWORTH UNION CHURCH | $10,000 |
| OPERATION WALK CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICA'S CHARITIES | $2,620 |
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, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k 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
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +45%
- LCLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +59%
- OWOperation Walk Chicago7× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- MSMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSICgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +107%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -9%
- FTFIRST TEEone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The Lycee Francais de Chicago, driven by our core values of respect, responsibility and the joy of learning, empowers students to grow into active global citizens.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Music Institute of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Medical Missions Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 14% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 45 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 THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Operation Walk Chicago ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds BEARS CARE ↗
- Who funds LA CASA NORTE ↗
- Who funds New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL MISSIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NEW TRIER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds THE FORTE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Jane W and David M Stone Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.