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Jerome Stone Legacy 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.

$288k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
45
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$65,255
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago Furniture Bank$76,24021%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$33,33310%
Music Institute of Chicago$26,5001n/a
North Shore Congregation Israel$10,7501n/a
Ravinia Festival Association$10,00010%
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs$10,0001n/a
Friends of Elnet$8,3331n/a
Juvenile Protective Association$7,10010%
All Chicago Making Homelessness History$7,00020%
Just Roots Just Roots Chicago$6,0001n/a
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago Furniture Bank$76,24021%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$33,33310%
Music Institute of Chicago$26,5001n/a
North Shore Congregation Israel$10,7501n/a
Ravinia Festival Association$10,00010%
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs$10,0001n/a
Friends of Elnet$8,3331n/a
Juvenile Protective Association$7,10010%
All Chicago Making Homelessness History$7,00020%
Just Roots Just Roots Chicago$6,0001n/a
Unify America$5,0001n/a
Humble Design Inc$5,00010%
American Association of Single Parents$5,00010%
C24 7 Father's Arms Ministries$3,15010%
A Safe Haven Foundation$3,00020%
The Pilgrim Chamber Players$2,70022%
Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods$2,50010%
The Service Club of Chicago$2,0001n/a
Scouting Art Collection Recovery Project Inc$2,0001n/a
The Volunteer Center$1,60012%
Jewish Heritage for the Blind$1,1802n/a
ChiArts Foundation$1,00010%
Accelerate Institute$1,00010%
Anshe Emet Synagogue$1,0001n/a
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$1,00010%
Gardeneers$8751n/a
Digs With Dignity Corporation$7921n/a
Highland Park Strings Nfp$75011%
Peace House Inc$50010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$50010%
Writers Theatre Inc$50010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$25010%
Museum of Contemporary Art$25010%
The Art Institute of Chicago$11510%

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChicago Furniture Bank: $76,240 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $33,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRavinia Festival Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJuvenile Protective Association: $7,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAll Chicago Making Homelessness History: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Association of Single Parents: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetC24 7 Father's Arms Ministries: $3,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA Safe Haven Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pilgrim Chamber Players: $2,700 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBrushwood Center at Ryerson Woods: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Volunteer Center: $1,600 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetChiArts Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAccelerate Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Park Strings Nfp: $750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPeace House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $115 over 1y, 0.0% 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 22.

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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.

Jerome H Stone Family…Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Chicago Community…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jerome H Stone Family FoundationIL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jerome H Stone Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Stone Legacy Foundation

How much does Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation give?
Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $287,528 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (25%), Religion (21%), Community Improvement (20%).
Who are Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Chicago Furniture Bank ($76k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($33k), Music Institute of Chicago ($27k).
Does Jerome Stone Legacy 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 Stone Legacy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jerome H Stone Family Foundation, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation based?
Jerome Stone Legacy 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 53 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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