Delaware · 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.
- $60k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Runestone Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $140k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $122k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $68k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $248k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $683k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $594k | 74% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $178k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center of Theological Inquiry | $355,000 | 7 | 8% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Options Inc | $182,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Isles Inc | $165,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Centurion Ministries Inc | $158,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Montgomery United Methodist Church | $95,000 | 1 | n/a |
| McCarter Theatre Company | $71,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Catherine University | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Leipzig Bach-Archive Inc | $32,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Musicopia Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Runestone Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Runestone Family Foundation
- How much does Runestone Family Foundation give?
- Runestone Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Runestone Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Religion (23%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Runestone Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center of Theological Inquiry ($355k), NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc ($200k), Community Options Inc ($182k).
- Does Runestone Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Runestone Family 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 Runestone Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- Where is Runestone Family Foundation based?
- Runestone Family Foundation is based in DE.
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