Delaware · Private foundation
The Ruth & J O Stone 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.
- $4.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $4.8M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $970k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $2.8M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.3M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $1.6M | 77% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $1.0M | 86% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clearwater Free Clinic Inc | $3,650,000 | 5 | 22% |
| Community Dental Clinic Inc | $3,165,000 | 7 | 49% |
| Morton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation Inc | $2,060,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc | $859,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc | $390,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Arc Tampa Bay Foundation Inc | $260,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Hope Villages of America Inc | $235,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Salvation Army | $230,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dunedin Fine Art Center | $226,000 | 5 | 6% |
| The Florida Orchestra | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($593k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · The H Foundation · Dwayne Hawkins Family Foundation Inc D/B/A Crown Automotive Charities · Michael G Cantonis Foundation Inc · Tampa Bay Charities Inc · Robert J and Jennifer J Banks Charitable Trust · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Northstar Family Foundation Inc · Bergoffen Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation
- How much does The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation give?
- The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $4,931,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (72%), Human Services (9%), Animals (7%).
- Who are The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Clearwater Free Clinic Inc ($3.6M), Community Dental Clinic Inc ($3.2M), Morton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation Inc ($2.1M).
- Does The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ruth & J O Stone 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 Ruth & J O Stone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc, Pinellas Community Foundation, The H Foundation.
- Where is The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation based?
- The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation is based in DE.
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