Connecticut · Private foundation
The Old Stones Foundation Inc
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.
- $374k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2020
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $67,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 69
- FY2017 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $172k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 28% of the organizations The Old Stones Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 80 | $364k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $247k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $162k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $189k | 21% |
| FY2017 | 50 | $98k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christ Episcopal Church | $140,500 | 5 | n/a |
| American Precision Museum Inc | $72,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Glimmerglass Opera Theatre Inc | $67,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Macula Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Yankee Institute for Public Policy | $33,500 | 5 | 1% |
| New York University | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Veritas | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Old Stones Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Malkin Fund Inc · Royce Family Fund Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Alexander Host Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Watt Family Foundation · The Gibbons Foundation · The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About The Old Stones Foundation Inc
- How much does The Old Stones Foundation Inc give?
- The Old Stones Foundation Inc reported 83 grants totaling $373,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 69 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
- What does The Old Stones Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Religion (20%), Public Benefit (13%).
- Who are The Old Stones Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Christ Episcopal Church ($141k), American Precision Museum Inc ($73k), Glimmerglass Opera Theatre Inc ($67k).
- Does The Old Stones Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Old Stones Foundation Inc 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 Old Stones Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Malkin Fund Inc, Royce Family Fund Inc, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Old Stones Foundation Inc based?
- The Old Stones Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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