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Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone 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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
120
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$4.1MHuman Services$1.4MEducation$1.0MHealth$913kHousing & Shelter$624kCommunity Improvement$589kFood & Nutrition$529kEnvironment$432kPhilanthropy$346kOther$2.5M
02FY2024 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k70 grants · $168k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $530k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$750,000
CHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE INC$250,000
BETTERFI$200,000
CHILDRENS NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC$200,000
CHATTANOOGA SYMPHONY AND OPERA ASSOCIATION$177,000
CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN$166,667
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA$120,000
MEDICOS MISSION FUND$100,000
CHATTANOOGA REGIONAL HOMELESS COALITION INC$100,000
CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK INC$100,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA$75,000
SIGNAL CENTERS INC$75,000
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY$60,000
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES$55,000
LA PAZ DE DIOS$54,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BETTERFI: $200k → 21%FRIENDS OF GEORGIA STATE PARKS & HISTORIC SITES IN: $2k → 10%SERVICE NEVER SLEEPS: $250 → 9%BETTERFI: $26k → 21%FRIENDS OF GEORGIA STATE PARKS & HISTORIC SITES IN: $2k → 10%FRIENDS OF GEORGIA STATE PARKS & HISTORIC SITES IN: $1k → 10%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $53k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $50k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $50k → 14%MAKE A WISH OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $1k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $50k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $50k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2k → 14%NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1k → 14%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $51k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $35k → 12%NET RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $25k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $10k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $3k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $2k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $2k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $2k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $2k → 12%UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $2k → 12%THE A I M CENTER INC: $40k → 12%CHATTANOOGA AREA BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 12%HELP RIGHT HERE: $52k → 12%HELP RIGHT HERE: $1k → 12%HELP RIGHT HERE: $1k → 12%HELP RIGHT HERE: $1k → 12%CHILDRENS NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC: $200k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $100k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $54k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $53k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $50k → 12%HELP RIGHT HERE: $50k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $25k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $1k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $1k → 12%LA PAZ DE DIOS: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 91 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

91 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
37

Total granted

$11M
$564k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+9%

Still filing today

91%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TT
    THE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +125%
  • DS
    DYNAMO STUDIOS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $464k · revenue ×15 · 63% of their budget
  • CA
    Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $402k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • BC
    BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -98%
  • TR
    THE RIVERCITY COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +117%
  • CH
    Chatt High Center For Creative Arts
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chattanooga Technology Council Inc

Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.

Community Improvement
2
Invest Chattanooga

Invest chattanooga uses flexible, low-cost capital and strategic public-private partnerships to produce financially sustainable, mixed-income housing with deep permanent affordability that the market alone cannot deliver.

Housing & Shelter
3
Preserve Chattanooga Inc Formerly Cornerstones Inc

To protect the architectural heritage of chattanooga through historic preservation, advocacy, and education

Arts & Culture
4
Carter Street Corporation

Encourage economic development

Community Improvement
5
Chattacademy Community Schools Inc

The mission of chattacademy is to reimagine what public education can look like in chattanooga, tennessee. chattacademy's mission is to graduate bilingual, biliterate critical thinkers ready to make an impact on the world through top…

Education
6
Family Promise of Greater Chattanooga Inc

Family promise of greater chattanooga's mission is to provide help for homeless families with children be housed and self-sufficient.

Human Services
7
Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund

To improve student achievement in public schools through highly effective teaching, strong leadership, and strategic partnerships so that children succeed in learning and in life.

Education
8
Friends of the Zoo Inc

Support operations of a zoo for the education and enjoyment of individuals living in and visiting chattanooga, tennessee.

Animals
9
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
10
Tennessee Clean Water Network

To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.

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11
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
12
United Way of South Central Tennessee

The united way of south central tennessee's mission is to improve lives by advancing opportunities for education, health, and financial stability for all. its vision is to be the primary community solutions leader for human services.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gaining Ground. 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 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr16%19%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr13%19%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr15%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%14%5–10yr18%40%10–20yr13%13%20–35yr16%17%35–55yr15%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/132
the rest of the field
14%
298/2,079

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.

05the grantee network

124 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. 124 of the 149 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
120/124
Grantees still filing
90/124
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $2,728,500 · Arts & CultureTHE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INCDYNAMO STUDIOS — $463,500 · Arts & CultureDYNAMO STUDIOSCreative Discovery Museum — $212,500 · Arts & CultureCHATTANOOGA SYMPHONY & OPERA ASSOCIATION — $181,500 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $542,700 · Arts & Culture+13 moreCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $318,167 · OtherCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDRENSIGNAL CENTERS INC — $275,000 · OtherSIGNAL CENTERS INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $228,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOG…METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $210,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INCChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc — $402,000 · OtherChattanooga Area Food Bank IncGREENSPACES INC — $150,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $128,000 · OtherANIMAL CARE TRUST — $182,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INC — $215,000 · OtherCHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INCSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDING — $150,000 · Other+70 more — $1,573,751 · Other+70 moreLA PAZ DE DIOS INC — $284,500 · Human ServicesLA PAZ DE DI…NORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $259,000 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE NE…BETTERFI — $225,764 · Human ServicesBETTERFICHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S N…UNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC — $132,000 · Human ServicesUNITED METHO…HELP RIGHT HERE — $104,500 · Human ServicesHELP RIGHT H…PURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $100,000 · Human ServicesPURPOSE POIN…+6 more — $75,750 · Human Services+6 moreCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $216,180 · EducationCHATTANOO…BAYLOR SCHOOL — $216,000 · EducationBAYLOR SC…SKYUKA HALL — $154,000 · EducationSKYUKA HA…THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · EducationTHE YOUNG…PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $105,000 · EducationPREP PUBL…CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $76,000 · EducationCHATTANOO…CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $70,500 · EducationCHATTANOO…+4 more — $55,500 · Education+4 moreMEDICOS MISSION FUND — $300,000 · HealthCHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC — $174,250 · HealthHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC — $161,500 · HealthWELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA — $116,250 · HealthA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC — $81,250 · HealthTHE LAUNCH PAD — $51,000 · Health+9 more — $28,750 · HealthCHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE — $401,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC — $165,800 · Housing & ShelterCHATTANOOGA ROOM IN THE INN INC — $54,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterBUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER — $200,000 · Community ImprovementCHATTANOOGA REGIONAL HOMELESS COALITION INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC — $75,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA — $56,000 · Community ImprovementTHE RIVERCITY COMPANY — $54,500 · Community ImprovementCHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO — $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC — $32,800 · Community ImprovementLAUNCH INC — $30,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $300 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$4,128,700Other$3,832,418Human Services$1,381,514Education$1,018,180Health$913,000Housing & Shelter$623,800Community Improvement$588,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $2,728,500 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetDYNAMO STUDIOS — $463,500 over 5y, 63% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc — $402,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHATTANOOGA NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERPRISE — $401,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $318,167 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMEDICOS MISSION FUND — $300,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetLA PAZ DE DIOS INC — $284,500 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetSIGNAL CENTERS INC — $275,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $259,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC — $228,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetBETTERFI — $225,764 over 2y, 54% of budgetCHATTANOOGA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $216,180 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL — $216,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHATTANOOGA FC FOUNDATION INC — $215,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCreative Discovery Museum — $212,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $210,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM OF HAITI INC — $200,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER — $200,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetANIMAL CARE TRUST — $182,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCHATTANOOGA SYMPHONY & OPERA ASSOCIATION — $181,500 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCHATTANOOGA AUTISM CENTER INC — $174,250 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC — $165,800 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHELEN ROSS MCNABB CENTER INC — $161,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSKYUKA HALL — $154,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDING — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREENSPACES INC — $150,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetUNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC — $132,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $128,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGAINING GROUND — $126,880 over 4y, 61% of budgetTHE POP-UP PROJECT — $126,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWELCOME HOME OF CHATTANOOGA — $116,250 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY — $106,500 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetPREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $105,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHELP RIGHT HERE — $104,500 over 4y, 79% of budgetGIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA — $104,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSOUNDCORPS INC — $102,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetCHATTANOOGA REGIONAL HOMELESS COALITION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetWAUHATCHIE SCHOOL INC — $98,799 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTHSIDE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $90,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION CHATTANOOGA INC — $81,250 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetREFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER — $80,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $76,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $76,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR FAMILIES CHILDREN AND ADULTS INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION — $73,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOLAB — $72,500 over 3y, 8.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Benwood Foundation IncLyndhurst Foundation …Chattanooga Christian…Footprint Foundation …Weldon F Osborne Foun…The Maclellan Foundat…McKenzie Foundation D…Robert L & Kathrina H…Hamico IncThe Howard FundUnited Way of Greater…
The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga IncTN136.8× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Footprint Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Hamico Inc · The Howard Fund · United Way of Greater Chattanooga

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 Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 149 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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