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Scone 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNY ONEONTA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE CALDER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGENTS | $12,000 |
| CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC | $8,000 |
| MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $6,000 |
| PS 21 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE | $5,500 |
| HARMONY PROJECT HUDSON | $4,000 |
| GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| RESIDENCY UNLIMITED | $3,000 |
| NYU DRAMA REVIEW FUND | $3,000 |
| THE GLOSTER ART PROJECT | $3,000 |
| THE PUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH WOODMERE | $900 |
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 (FY20–20, $25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Scone 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. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- CECLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC4× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +101%
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +5%- PCPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- MCMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- P2PS 21 CHATHAMone grant, 2022 · $5k
- AFAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +55%
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.
Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
Wmht enriches communities and elevates diverse perspectives by providing content, connection, and conversation that advance education, culture, and civic engagement.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harmony Project Hudson Inc and the most unlike its peers is Calder Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 39 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 MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOSTER ARTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds RESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PS 21 INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SYLVIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds FARM ON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LUDWIG FOUNDATION OF CUBA ↗
- Who funds MAC-HAYDN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Hrbt Foundation · T Backer Fund Inc · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Eutopia Foundation · Prospect Hill Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Scone 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.
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% 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.
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