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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 FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $126k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK$65,255
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$33,333
THE MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$26,500
NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISREAL (NSCI)$19,200
CIRCLE FOUNDATION - INNOVATIONS HIGH SCHOOL FUND$17,250
CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS$10,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL$10,000
IMPACT INC (IMPACT BOSTON)$10,000
COUNSELING CENTER OF NORTH SHORE$8,720
FRIENDS OF ELNET$8,333
JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION$7,100
THE JOSELYN CENTER NFP$6,000
JUST ROOTS$6,000
ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY$6,000
AMERICAN ASSOCATION OF SINGLE PARENTS INC$5,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PEACE HOUSE INC: $500 → 5%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $7k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCATION OF SINGLE PARENTS INC: $5k → 14%C247 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES: $3k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $65k → 14%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK INC: $11k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$118k · 7 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$118k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+19%

Still filing today

57%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • CF
    CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK
    2× · 2024–2025 · $76k · revenue -16%
  • II
    IMPACT INC (IMPACT BOSTON)
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
  • HC
    HARVARD CLUB OF CHICAGO
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL
    one grant, 2024 · $11k
  • HC
    HARVARD COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • HU
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY (PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE)
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
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.

1
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
2
The Arts Club of Chicago

The arts club of chicago was formed as a means to encourage, foster, and develop higher standards of arts craftsmanship, and to maintain the city of chicago facility for the housing of galleries and exhibitions open to the public and free…

Arts & Culture
3
Classical Music Chicago

Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.

Arts & Culture
4
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
5
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
6
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University Inc

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…

Arts & Culture
7
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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8
Design Museum of Chicago

The Design Museum of Chicago inspires, educates, and fosters innovation through design. Design is an integral tool that can help to connect communities and create equity. Through free, short-term exhibitions, engaging public programming,…

Arts & Culture
9
Lyric Opera of Chicago

We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…

Arts & Culture
10
Chicago Theatre Group Inc

The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…

Arts & Culture
11
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Chicago Sinfonietta Inc

Chicago Sinfonietta is a professional orchestra dedicated to modeling and promoting diversity, inclusion, and both racial and cultural equity in the arts through the universal language of symphonic music. Our core values are built around…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Contemporary Art; the most unlike its peers is Highland Park Strings Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
9/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPACT INC (IMPACT BOSTON): $20,000 · OtherIMPACT INC (IMPACT BOSTON)NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISREAL (NSCI): $19,200 · OtherNORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISREAL (NSCI)CIRCLE FOUNDATION - INNOVATIONS HIGH SCHOOL FUND: $17,250 · OtherCIRCLE FOUNDATION - INNOVATIONS HIGH SCHOOL…NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL: $10,750 · OtherNORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAELCOUNSELING CENTER OF NORTH SHORE: $8,720 · OtherCOUNSELING CENTER OF NORTH SHOREHARVARD CLUB OF CHICAGO: $7,500 · OtherHARVARD CLUB OF CHICAGOTHE JOSELYN CENTER NFP: $6,000 · OtherUnify America: $5,000 · Other+23 more: $33,987 · Other+23 moreCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $76,240 · Human ServicesCHICAGO FURNITURE BANKJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $7,100 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATIO…American Association of Single Parents: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Association of Single…C24 7 FATHER'S ARMS MINISTRIES: $3,150 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesMUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $26,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC INSTITUT…RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIV…THE PILGRIM CHAMBER PLAYERS: $2,700 · Arts & CultureTHE PILGRIM CH…SCOUTING ART COLLECTION RECOVERY PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $33,333 · HealthALZHEIMER'S …A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthA SAFE HAVEN…+1 more: $250 · HealthTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNET: $8,333 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 · InternationalALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterHumble Design Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterJUST ROOTS JUST ROOTS CHICAGO: $6,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$128,407Human Services$91,990Arts & Culture$43,700Health$36,583International$19,333Housing & Shelter$12,000Food & Nutrition$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jerome Stone Legacy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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