How much does Sea Stone Foundation give?

Sea Stone Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $267,024 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Sea Stone Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Religion (12%), Education (10%).

Who are Sea Stone Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Noche Flamenca Inc ($150k), Tibet Fund Inc ($133k), Utah Film Center ($103k).

Does Sea Stone Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Sea Stone 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 Sea Stone Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, Lostand Foundation.

Where is Sea Stone Foundation based?

Sea Stone Foundation is based in NY.

Sea Stone Foundation

Sea Stone Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Sea Stone 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.

$267k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$748kReligion$156kEducation$140kInternational$137kCivil Rights$30kEnvironment$28kHuman Services$22kHealth$20kOther$0

02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k37 grants · $77k
$10k–50k9 grants · $141k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$234k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NOCHE FLAMENCA	$50,000
AMERICAN BALLET THEATER	$23,000
THE TIBET FUND	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$20,000
HAMPTONS DANCE PROJECT	$20,000
UTAH FILM CENTER	$15,000
DAY ONE EARLY LEARNING COMMUNITY	$12,500
THE NATIONAL SUSAN B ANTHONY MUSEUM	$10,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY	$10,000
ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL	$10,000
52ND STREET PROJECT	$9,770
THRESHOLD FOUNDATION	$7,355
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$7,000
VETERANS HEALTHCARE POLICY INST	$5,075
MISTY COPELAND FOUNDATION	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 72 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+6%

Still filing today

76%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentReligionHuman ServicesOther

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

NF
NOCHE FLAMENCA INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +9%
TF
Tibet Fund Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +56%
UF
UTAH FILM CENTER
5× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +167%

Funded once

NL
NO LIMITS MEDIA INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +399%
3G
3 GENERATIONS
one grant, 2017 · $24k
DO
Day One of New York Inc
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +21%

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.

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture

The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International

The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mediators Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 161 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

100/100

Grantees still filing

64/100

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$710,593Other$452,947International$194,739Education$175,719Religion$23,659Human Services$22,378Public Benefit$19,325

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

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.

The New York Community TrustNY24.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Lostand Foundation · The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · BESS Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Double-R Foundation · Robertson Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

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 Sea Stone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sea Stone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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How do I get to Sea Stone Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sea 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.

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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