Massachusetts · Private foundation
Limestone Foundation
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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $505,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $46M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Limestone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $2.3M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $3.1M | 37% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $2.0M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $1.9M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $3.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | $2,366,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc | $1,365,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Kentucky Coalition Inc | $710,000 | 5 | 8% |
| New Mexico Voices for Children | $600,000 | 2 | 20% |
| Kansas Action for Children Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 16% |
| Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc | $425,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Montana Budget and Policy Center | $375,000 | 5 | 12% |
| State Power Fund | $370,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The American Prospect Inc | $350,000 | 5 | 6% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($873k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Limestone Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Chestnut Fund · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Economic Policy Institute
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Limestone Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Limestone 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.
About Limestone Foundation
- How much does Limestone Foundation give?
- Limestone Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $2,470,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Limestone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (52%), Community Improvement (13%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are Limestone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ($2.4M), Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc ($1.4M), Kentucky Coalition Inc ($710k).
- Does Limestone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Limestone 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 Limestone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Limestone Foundation based?
- Limestone Foundation is based in MA.
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