North Carolina · Private foundation
Stonecutter Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $820k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2026
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $410,975
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 3
- Total assets, FY2026
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 12% of the organizations Stonecutter Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 16 | $820k | 25% |
| FY2025 | 17 | $661k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $652k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $675k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $526k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $574k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutherford Housing Partnership Inc | $620,283 | 6 | 19% |
| Hatch AVL Foundation | $247,250 | 5 | 86% |
| Trinity School Inc | $151,480 | 6 | 4% |
| Gardner-Webb University | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium | $105,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Symphony of Rutherford County | $50,440 | 3 | 43% |
| App School Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Lure Flowering Bridge | $30,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Mars Hill University | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rutherford County Visual Artists Guild | $25,550 | 3 | 24% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutherford Housing Partnership Inc | $620,283 | 6 | 19% |
| Hatch AVL Foundation | $247,250 | 5 | 86% |
| Trinity School Inc | $151,480 | 6 | 4% |
| Gardner-Webb University | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium | $105,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Symphony of Rutherford County | $50,440 | 3 | 43% |
| App School Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Lure Flowering Bridge | $30,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Mars Hill University | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rutherford County Visual Artists Guild | $25,550 | 3 | 24% |
| Open Doors of Asheville Inc | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rutherford Quilt Guild Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pisgah Legal Services | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blue Ridge Hope | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Earl Scruggs Music Festival Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Discovery Place Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Rutherfordton | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montreat College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buncombe Alternatives Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Foothills Credit Counseling Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Stonecutter Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Stonecutter Foundation Inc
- How much does Stonecutter Foundation Inc give?
- Stonecutter Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $820,095 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Stonecutter Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (55%), Arts & Culture (15%), Education (14%).
- Who are Stonecutter Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Rutherford Housing Partnership Inc ($620k), Hatch AVL Foundation ($247k), Trinity School Inc ($151k).
- Does Stonecutter Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stonecutter Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stonecutter Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, The Cannon Foundation Inc.
- Where is Stonecutter Foundation Inc based?
- Stonecutter Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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