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The Karen M Stone Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$62kHuman Services$45kAnimals$20kEmployment$10kRecreation & Sports$6kPhilanthropy$5kEnvironment$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRINGING HOPE HOME$7,500
PETER'S PLACE$6,500
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS$5,000
HEAD STRONG FOUNDATION$5,000
TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION$5,000
WIT YOU AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER$5,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION$5,000
INTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%ARC OF MAUI COUNTY: $10k → 9%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%ANNS HEART: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
OR
PA
NJ
CO
DE
NC
HI
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 5 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$58k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PP
    PETER POWERHOUSE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue -72% · 42% of their budget
  • TM
    The MIP Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue -61%
  • BH
    BRINGING HOPE HOME
    2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • AO
    ARC OF MAUI COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • VO
    VETRANS OUTREACH OF PA
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • E
    EMPOWERU
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Pet Peace of Mind

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.

Animals
2
Dogs Playing for Life Inc

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.

Animals
3
People Animals Love Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Passion for Paws Inc

To provide a sanctuary for senior pets (dogs, cats, farm animals) and to provide access to vet care for indigent people

Animals
5
Pals for Life Association

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.

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6
Helping Paws Inc

Helping paws, inc. furthers people's independence and quality of life through the use of assistance dogs.

Human Services
7
Paws With a Cause

To transform lives and strengthen communities through partnerships with custom trained working dogs.

Human Services
8
Starfish Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
9
Pets On Wheels Inc

Sharing love to help fight stress and lick loneliness, one friendly therapy visit at a time

Animals
10
Paws Give Me Purpose Inc

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.

Animals
11
Hero Dogs Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Petpals of Southern New Jersey Inc

To provide assistancve in caring for the companion animals of people living with terminal or chronic illnesses as well as financially needy senior citizens.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barn At Spring Brook Farm Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The MIP Foundation: $15,000 · HealthThe MIP FoundationBRINGING HOPE HOME: $12,500 · HealthBRINGING HOPE HOMEHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthHEADSTRONG FOUNDATIONWIT YOU AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER: $5,000 · HealthWIT YOU AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCE…INTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC: $5,000 · HealthINTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC+1 more: $1,000 · HealthVETRANS OUTREACH OF PA: $5,000 · OtherVETRANS OUTREACH OF PAEMPOWERU: $5,000 · OtherEMPOWERUDOUG FLUTIE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherDOUG FLUTIE FOUNDATIONFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION OF CO: $5,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION OF CONATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN I…ALTITUDE PROJECT: $5,000 · OtherALTITUDE PROJECTCOLORADO STARS: $5,000 · OtherCOLORADO STARSSMALL MOMENTS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherSMALL MOMENTS FOUNDATIONLet's Work for Good Inc: $5,000 · OtherLet's Work for Good Inc+2 more: $1,500 · OtherARC OF MAUI COUNTY: $10,000 · Human ServicesARC OF MAUI COUNTYANN'S HEART INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesANN'S HEART INCFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS …PET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPET-ASSISTED VISITATI…TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesTWILIGHT WISH FOUNDAT…PETER POWERHOUSE FOUNDATION: $18,000 · PhilanthropyPETER POWERHO…BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC: $750 · PhilanthropyPETER'S PLACE: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentTO LOVE A CANINE RESCUE INC: $5,000 · AnimalsPets for Vets Inc: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Health$43,500Other$44,500Human Services$30,000Philanthropy$18,750Youth Development$12,000Animals$5,000Public Benefit$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPETER POWERHOUSE FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetThe MIP Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetBRINGING HOPE HOME: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPETER'S PLACE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetARC OF MAUI COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTO LOVE A CANINE RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANN'S HEART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPET-ASSISTED VISITATION VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLet's Work for Good Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTEGRATE FOR GOOD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSKATECHURCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Gordon Charter Fo…The Cigna Group Found…The Philadelphia Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY14.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Karen M Stone Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Karen M Stone Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Karen M Stone Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Karen M Stone Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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