Skip to content
Scone Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$93kEducation$72kHealth$12kPublic Benefit$7kReligion$4kYouth Development$4kRecreation & Sports$4kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$526k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE GLOSTER ART PROJECT$3,000
NYU DRAMA REVIEW FUND$3,000
THE PUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION$2,500
EARTH JUSTICE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTH WOODMERE$900
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Scone Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 0%.

Scone Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 10 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
20

Total granted

$64k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+17%

Still filing today

70%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CE
    CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +101%
  • MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +5%
  • PC
    PUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • MC
    MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • P2
    PS 21 CHATHAM
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +55%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bang On a Can

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Wmht Educational Telecommunications Inc

Wmht enriches communities and elevates diverse perspectives by providing content, connection, and conversation that advance education, culture, and civic engagement.

—
7
Women's Project & Productions Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Bard College

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.

Education
10
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
12
New York Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harmony Project Hudson Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNY ONEONTA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherSUNY ONEONTA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONCALDER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherCALDER FOUNDATIONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $12,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANPS 21 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE: $5,500 · OtherPS 21 CHATHAM: $5,175 · Other+12 more: $19,411 · Other+12 moreMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATIONCLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureCLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSICMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCGLOSTER ARTS PROJECT: $6,600 · Arts & CultureGLOSTER ARTS PROJECTHARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureRESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePS 21 INC: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,550 · Arts & CultureTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $6,500 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $5,000 · EducationROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $2,150 · EducationSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $500 · Education+2 more: $500 · EducationPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC: $6,865 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsEARTHJUSTICE: $2,000 · EnvironmentCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE SYLVIA CENTER: $1,000 · Food & NutritionHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25 · Human Services
Other$117,086Arts & Culture$82,150Education$14,650Community Improvement$6,865Recreation & Sports$3,500Environment$3,000Food & Nutrition$1,000Human Services$25

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC: $18,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC: $6,865 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGLOSTER ARTS PROJECT: $6,600 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONY PROJECT HUDSON INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetRESIDENCY UNLIMITED INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPS 21 INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $2,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM ON FOUNDATION INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LUDWIG FOUNDATION OF CUBA: $350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAC-HAYDN THEATRE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Hrbt FoundationT Backer Fund IncThe Alexander and Mar…Bank of Greene County…Price Chopper's Golub…Eutopia FoundationProspect Hill Foundat…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncJewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Scone Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Scone 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Scone’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home