· Private foundation
The Five Stones Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSROADS PRISON MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| MENA | $35,000 |
| CHRIST NEW COVENANT CHURCH (SYRACUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY) | $15,000 |
| MAMA'S HOUSE | $15,000 |
| SPREADING HOPE NETWORK | $10,000 |
| SINGLE PARENT PROVISION | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of The Five Stones Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue -5%
- TOThe Orphanetwork3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue -40%
- MMENA2× · 2024–2025 · $45k
Funded once
- BIBIBLICA INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +100%
- PLPRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +45%
- BFBIBLES FOR CHINA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +37%
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.
To help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing resources and financial support to projects throughout Asia
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
We do bible translation with the kingdom perspective, therefore we go beyond making "a" new chinese translation for the chinese only; we strive to serve the ethnic minority groups in china and other countries as well. crossing national and…
The distribution of Talking Bibles worldwide in as many different languages as possible.
To proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world. Taking His love to the orphans, widows and children being trafficked by providing homes, feeding, education, clothing and care.
Religious
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
To teach the bible to pastors and church leaders in africa and asia, while funding food for orphaned and abandonded children
Education, Humanitarian, Community outreach and evangelism ministry. Provide Orphan Care, Train Youth in Career Paths, Train Pastors and Others in Bible School, Prison Ministry, Provide Elementary School for about 300 Children
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 CROSS ROAD CORRECTIONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Orphanetwork ↗
- Who funds BIBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds World Hope International Inc ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLES FOR CHINA INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SPREADING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SINGLE PARENT PROVISION ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Five Stones Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Five Stones Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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