Connecticut · Private foundation
The Bluestone 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.
- $278k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2025
- 71
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 68 to 77
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Bluestone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 74 | $274k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 71 | $227k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $170k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $151k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $147k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 75 | $148k | 1% |
| FY2019 | 77 | $147k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 75 | $145k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whyy Inc | $79,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rhode Island Natural History Survey | $72,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Food for Lane County | $40,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Springside Chestnut Hill Academy | $39,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Applegate House Heritage Arts and Education Inc | $38,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Biodiversity Research Institute | $37,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Casa of Douglas County Inc | $35,000 | 9 | 2% |
| The Fish of Roseburg | $35,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Chestnut Hill Conservancy | $33,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Umpqua Valley Arts Association | $31,500 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 95 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($207k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bluestone Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Ford Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Roundhouse Foundation · Hunt C Giles Char - Main · The Autzen Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Collins Foundation · William C Young Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Bluestone Foundation
- How much does The Bluestone Foundation give?
- The Bluestone Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $277,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bluestone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Environment (21%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Bluestone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Whyy Inc ($79k), Rhode Island Natural History Survey ($72k), Food for Lane County ($41k).
- Does The Bluestone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bluestone 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 The Bluestone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Family Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is The Bluestone Foundation based?
- The Bluestone Foundation is based in CT.
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