· Private foundation
The Karen M Stone Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRINGING HOPE HOME | $7,500 |
| PETER'S PLACE | $6,500 |
| INTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC | $5,000 |
| HEAD STRONG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WIT YOU AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER | $5,000 |
| TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION | $5,000 |
| THE MIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PETER POWERHOUSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC | $1,000 |
| BOBBY NICHOLS FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PPPETER POWERHOUSE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue -72% · 42% of their budget
- TMThe MIP Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +30%
- BHBRINGING HOPE HOME2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- AOARC OF MAUI COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +12%
- TLTO LOVE A CANINE RESCUE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- DFDOUG FLUTIE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Pet peace of mind provides hospices,home health agencies, and hospitals with a turnkey solution to help them establish a program to recruit and train their volunteers to help patients with pet care needs.
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
The organization's mission is to sponsor programs for adults and children that demonstrate how the special bond between animals and humans can make a unique contribution in solving challenging societal needs.
To provide a sanctuary for senior pets (dogs, cats, farm animals) and to provide access to vet care for indigent people
Pals for life is a not for profit organization dedicated to providing vists from evaluated companion animals and human volunteers in order to achieve therapeutic benefits for those in need.
Helping paws, inc. furthers people's independence and quality of life through the use of assistance dogs.
To transform lives and strengthen communities through partnerships with custom trained working dogs.
To help abandoned dogs in kill shelters find permanent and responsible loving homes. We support and work with other reputable rescues who support our vision and standards.
Sharing love to help fight stress and lick loneliness, one friendly therapy visit at a time
Our mission is to provide a bridge of care that supports senior, hospice and special needs dogs so they can live their lives to the fullest.
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
To provide assistancve in caring for the companion animals of people living with terminal or chronic illnesses as well as financially needy senior citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barn At Spring Brook Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wit You Against Childhood Cancer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PETER POWERHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The MIP Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRINGING HOPE HOME ↗
- Who funds PETER'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds ARC OF MAUI COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TO LOVE A CANINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STARS ↗
- Who funds Let's Work for Good Inc ↗
- Who funds Pets for Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds WIT YOU AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANN'S HEART INC ↗
- Who funds TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SKATECHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Karen M Stone Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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