· Private foundation
Runestone 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF METUCHEN | $10,000 |
| METUCHEN SAFETY COUNCIL INC | $8,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF METUCHEN | $8,000 |
| A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE INC | $8,000 |
| JOHN AKEY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC | $5,000 |
| CHITTENDEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE METUCHEN LIBRARY A NEW JERSEY NONPR | $5,000 |
| RUTLAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $3,000 |
| METUCHEN EDISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC3× · 2017–2019 · $200k · revenue +102%- COCommunity Options Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $182k · revenue +142%
ISLES INC4× · 2017–2023 · $165k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- PBPHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $100k
- MUMONTGOMERY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $95k
- MIMUSICOPIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +359%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Laws of the state of new jersey. the mission of the organization is to perform choral masterworks and other works of the choral literature with energy, passion, and uncompromising artistic excellence. the organization believes in the power…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Our fundamental mission is to bring scholarly ideas to the world. we publish books that connect authors and readers across spheres of knowledge to advance and enrich the human conversation. we embrace the highest standards in our…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Healthcare System Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chittenden Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 40 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Center of Theological Inquiry ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Community Options Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTURION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American Friends of the Leipzig Bach-Archive Inc ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds METUCHEN SAFETY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN AKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHITTENDEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds TRUE COLORS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Metuchen Library ↗
- Who funds RUTLAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER AT 353 INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds MAGICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PRINCETON ↗
- Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Griffin-Cole Fund · The Snyder Family Fund · The J Robert & Barbara A Hillier Foundation Inc · The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family Foundation · Honey Perkins Family Foundation Inc · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · The Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc
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 Runestone Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Arts Council of Princeton — 6% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Options Inc — 0% of income from government
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.