· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $556k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC | $2,000,000 |
| CLEARWATER FREE CLINIC INC | $2,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $206,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC | $100,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $100,000 |
| FLORIDA WILDLIFE CORRIDOR FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| FLORIDA ORCHESTRA INC | $50,000 |
| HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA INC | $50,000 |
| CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WEST VIRGIN | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| RUTH ECKERD HALL INC | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA ORCHESTRA INC | $25,000 |
| CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WEST VIRGIN | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DUNEDIN FINE ARTS CULTURAL CENTER INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $600k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k 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
- CFClearwater Free Clinic Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +85%
- CDCommunity Dental Clinic Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +451% · 49% of their budget
- MPMORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +156%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $230k
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SUNCOAST INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +9%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY - ATHENS GA UNITone grant, 2022 · $90k
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.
See schedule ocollaboratory is a community foundation with an evolved mission committed to coordinating the solving of southwest florida's major social problems by 2040. since our founding in 1976, we have been supporting local causes and…
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Our mission is to provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…
Community first credit union of florida's mission is to provide the highest in quality financial solutions for every stage of life.
To advance education, awareness, and scientifically supported solutions to restore and protect marine ecosystems and our way of life for future generations.
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…
With compassion and respect, St. Pete Free Clinic changes lives by providing health care, nutritious food, recovery housing, and education for our neighbors in need.
The st petersburg area chamber of commerce shall be the preeminent leader of business in order to ensure the economic growth and vitality for all in our community.
To enhance the quality of life in the north florida community through the promotion and support of charitable giving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dunedin Fine Art Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 35 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 Clearwater Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Dental Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Villages of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Dunedin Fine Art Center ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CREATED WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds RUTH ECKERD HALL INC ↗
- Who funds CLEARWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS TAMPA BAY FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds RYAN WELLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION 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: 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
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 Ruth & J O Stone 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Homeless Emergency Project Inc — 15% of income from government
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc — 12% of income from government
- Hope Villages of America Inc — 2% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary — 0% of income from government
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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