· Private foundation
Stone Barrett 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO POETRY CENTER | $6,000 |
| WBEZ CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| US SAILING FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE | $2,500 |
| PARKINSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,030 |
| WOODLAND PATTERN | $1,029 |
| PENINSULA YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE FAMILY INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| FUTUREPOEM | $1,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| CLIFF DWELLERS ART FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
76 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 10 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LPLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +30%
- CSChicago Symphony Orchestra7× · 2017–2023 · $76k · revenue +58%
- USUNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- FWFrancis W Parker Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +31%
- TPThe Poetry Centerone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +20%
- NHNewport Hospital Foundationone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
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.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
91 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. 91 of the 163 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds INLAND LAKE YACHTING ASSOCIATIONIN ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds Parkinson Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Chicago Commons Association ↗
- Who funds The Poetry Center ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHINO ALIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHICAGO RIVER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE MENOMONEE CLUB ↗
- Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN SAIL RACING FEDERATION INC ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · Helmsmanshipinc · Peter and Carol Goldman Family Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Canning Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stone Barrett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stone Barrett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Litchfield Historical Society: 3% of income from government
- Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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