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Jerome H Stone Family Foundation

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.

$606k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
80
Grants FY2024
78
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$114,318
Organizations funded a year
70 to 78
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$30k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Jerome H Stone Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationEnvironmentFood & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving77$489k57%
FY202378$467k28%
FY202278$437k42%
FY202171$435k35%
FY202070$443kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$695kArts & Culture$504kPhilanthropy$231kReligion$193kInternational$158kHousing & Shelter$157kEducation$110kCommunity Improvement$75kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$505,55050%
Chicago Furniture Bank$113,07550%
Chicago Humanities Festival$84,20051%
Refugeeone$81,00040%
Human Rights Watch Inc$80,00040%
Little City Foundation$77,73050%
Music Institute of Chicago$73,55030%
North Shore Congregation Israel$67,3534n/a
Gardeneers$53,01553%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$50,00010%
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All grantees of Jerome H Stone Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$505,55050%
Chicago Furniture Bank$113,07550%
Chicago Humanities Festival$84,20051%
Refugeeone$81,00040%
Human Rights Watch Inc$80,00040%
Little City Foundation$77,73050%
Music Institute of Chicago$73,55030%
North Shore Congregation Israel$67,3534n/a
Gardeneers$53,01553%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$50,00010%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$38,50050%
Threshold Foundation$38,0001n/a
Juvenile Protective Association$37,75050%
Keynote Productions NFP$33,000334%
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs$30,00030%
The Pilgrim Chamber Players$27,750566%
The Art Institute of Chicago$27,57550%
Ravinia Festival Association$26,93750%
Friends of Elnet$23,86640%
Kartemquin Educational Films$18,50020%
University of Chicago$16,30030%
Harvard Club of Chicago$16,00038%
Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired$15,00030%
Red Clay Dance Company Inc$14,30031%
Bounce Children's Foundation$12,75031%
Womens Media Group Inc$12,50057%
Impact Inc$11,20011%
Lincoln Park Village Inc$10,00050%
Adama Foundation$10,000113%
Community Health NFP$10,00010%
Congregation or Shalom of Lake County$9,1001n/a
Merit School of Music$7,50040%
Cedille Chicago Nfp$5,80010%
American Association of Single Parents$5,50010%
Just Roots Just Roots Chicago$5,00011%
Jblendz Enterprises Nfp Inc$5,0001n/a
Fund for the City of New York Inc$5,00010%
A Safe Haven Foundation$5,00010%
Mickey Hammerman Legacy Fund Inc$5,00016%
Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago Inc$5,00010%
Lions Clubs International Foundation$5,00010%
American Jewish Committee$4,75030%
Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc$4,1803n/a
Albany Park Theater Project$4,00040%
Lyric Opera of Chicago$3,82320%
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods$3,50020%
Museum of Contemporary Art$3,16130%
Treepeople Inc$3,10050%
Jewish Heritage for the Blind$3,0003n/a
Glencoe North Shore United Methodist Church$2,7451n/a
Outer Coast$2,50010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$2,50050%
HBSCC Charitable Fund$2,500116%
Counseling Center of the North Shore Inc$2,50010%
The Chicago Philharmonic Society$2,50010%
Gus Giordano's Jazz Dance Chicago Inc D/B/A Giordano Dance Chicago$2,50010%
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$2,30020%
Court Theatre Fund$2,0001n/a
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago$2,00010%
Partnership for a Connected Illinois Inc$2,00012%
Harvard Alumni for Global Womens Empowerment$2,0001n/a
Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness$2,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$1,86540%
Fractured Atlas Inc$1,75020%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$1,70010%
Old Town School of Folk Music$1,50010%
Musicians for Hope Inc$1,5001n/a
Writers Theatre Inc$1,50010%
Riders Alliance Fund Inc$1,25030%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$1,20050%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$1,05030%
Libenu$1,02010%
Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development$1,00010%
Waukegan Public Schools Foundation$1,00012%
All Chicago Making Homelessness History$1,00010%
The Lambi Fund of Haiti$1,00010%
THE SOLTI FOUNDATION US CO Fiona Queen$80010%
Harvard Business School Club of Chicago$75012%
Chicago Horticultural Society$67330%
Sports Shed Inc$60010%
Chicago Symphony Orchestra$53610%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$50010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$50010%
Allies for Community Business Inc$50010%
Francis W Parker School$50010%
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations$50010%
The Northmoor Education Foundation$50010%
National Audubon Society Inc$47520%
Association for Promotion of Jewish Secularism Inc$30030%
Chicago Sinai Congregation$3001n/a
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$30010%
National Association of Social Workers$28110%
National Wildlife Federation$25020%
Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$25010%
Alliance Defending Freedom$25010%
National Park Foundation$25010%
Feeding America$25010%
American Parkinson Disease Assoc$25010%
Kqed Inc$18010%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$15010%
The Mono Lake Foundation$15010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$15010%
Window to the World Communications Inc$15020%
La Rabida Children's Hospital$15010%
St Josephs Indian School$1301n/a
Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts DBA CG Jung Institute of Chicago$12010%
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation$11610%
Cato Institute$10010%
American Association of University Women Inc$10010%
Humane World for Animals Inc$10010%
Haitian Art Society$1002n/a
Rubin Museum of Art Aka the Shelley & Donald Rubin Cultural Trust$10010%
AARP Foundation$5010%
City Club of Chicago$2510%
Sierra Club$1910%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($504k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Jerome H Stone Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $505,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Furniture Bank: $113,075 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $84,200 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRefugeeone: $81,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLittle City Foundation: $77,730 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMusic Institute of Chicago: $73,550 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGardeneers: $53,015 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $38,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJuvenile Protective Association: $37,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKeynote Productions NFP: $33,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetThe Chicago Council on Global Affairs: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pilgrim Chamber Players: $27,750 over 5y, 66% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $27,575 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRavinia Festival Association: $26,937 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Elnet: $23,866 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKartemquin Educational Films: $18,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $16,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHarvard Club of Chicago: $16,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetHadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRed Clay Dance Company Inc: $14,300 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBounce Children's Foundation: $12,750 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWomens Media Group Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetImpact Inc: $11,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLincoln Park Village Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAdama Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCommunity Health NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMerit School of Music: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCedille Chicago Nfp: $5,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Association of Single Parents: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJust Roots Just Roots Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFund for the City of New York Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Safe Haven Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMickey Hammerman Legacy Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetKohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlbany Park Theater Project: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $3,823 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrushwood Center at Ryerson Woods: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art: $3,161 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTreepeople Inc: $3,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOuter Coast: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHBSCC Charitable Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetCounseling Center of the North Shore Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Chicago Philharmonic Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 102.

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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.

Lloyd a Fry FoundationIL31.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Walder Foundation · Ncrc Community Development Fund Inc · Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation

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.

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About Jerome H Stone Family Foundation

How much does Jerome H Stone Family Foundation give?
Jerome H Stone Family Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $605,798 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 78 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Jerome H Stone Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Arts & Culture (21%), Philanthropy (10%).
Who are Jerome H Stone Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($506k), Chicago Furniture Bank ($113k), Chicago Humanities Festival ($84k).
Does Jerome H Stone Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jerome H Stone Family 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jerome H Stone Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lloyd a Fry Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Robert R McCormick Foundation.
Where is Jerome H Stone Family Foundation based?
Jerome H Stone Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 201 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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