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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 FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2.0M
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$9.2MHuman Services$1.2MAnimals$921kArts & Culture$851kPhilanthropy$290kEducation$107kEnvironment$85kCommunity Improvement$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $360k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $556k
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.0M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC$2,000,000
CLEARWATER FREE CLINIC INC$2,000,000
Individual grant recipient$206,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC$100,000
FLORIDA ORCHESTRA INC$50,000
HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA INC$50,000
FLORIDA WILDLIFE CORRIDOR FOUNDATION INC$50,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$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
CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WEST VIRGIN$25,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA INC: $150k → 12%HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA INC: $50k → 12%RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 12%HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA INC: $10k → 12%THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 12%THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 12%THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 12%THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 12%THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 12%THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 12%THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 12%ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $5k → 12%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SUNCOAST I: $100k → 12%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 21 repeat orgs$713k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$12M
$457k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+13%

Still filing today

90%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CF
    Clearwater Free Clinic Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +85%
  • CD
    Community Dental Clinic Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +451% · 49% of their budget
  • MP
    MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2021 · $230k
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SUNCOAST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY - ATHENS GA UNIT
    one grant, 2022 · $90k
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
Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy
2
Tampa Bay Partnership Inc

The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.

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3
The Florida Aquarium Inc

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…

Animals
4
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

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.

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5
Central Florida Kidney Centers Inc

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…

Health
6
Community First Credit Union of Florida

Community first credit union of florida's mission is to provide the highest in quality financial solutions for every stage of life.

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7
Captains for Clean Water Inc

To advance education, awareness, and scientifically supported solutions to restore and protect marine ecosystems and our way of life for future generations.

Environment
8
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

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…

Health
9
Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness

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…

Human Services
10
St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc

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.

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11
St Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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12
Community Foundation of North Florida Inc

To enhance the quality of life in the north florida community through the promotion and support of charitable giving.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Clearwater Free Clinic Inc: $3,650,000 · HealthClearwater Free Clinic IncCommunity Dental Clinic Inc: $3,165,000 · HealthCommunity Dental Clinic IncMORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,060,000 · HealthMORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INCClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $859,500 · AnimalsSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY: $41,000 · Animals+1 more: $20,000 · AnimalsTHE SALVATION ARMY: $230,000 · OtherTHE SALVA…THE SALVATION ARMY: $220,000 · OtherTHE SALVA…Individual grant recipient: $206,000 · OtherIndividua…THE SALVATION ARMY - ATHENS GA UNIT: $90,000 · OtherTHE SALVA…ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI: $70,000 · OtherALZHEIMER…Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc: $85,000 · OtherFlorida W…CHARITY WORKS INC: $65,000 · OtherCHARITY W…HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $45,000 · Other+6 more: $96,500 · Other+6 moreCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC: $390,000 · Arts & CultureDunedin Fine Art Center: $226,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $175,000 · Arts & CultureRUTH ECKERD HALL INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $260,000 · Human ServicesHope Villages of America Inc: $235,000 · Human ServicesCREATED WOMEN INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SUNCOAST INC: $100,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $285,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationRYAN WELLS FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 · EducationPINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education
Health$8,875,000Animals$920,500Other$1,107,500Arts & Culture$821,000Human Services$710,000Philanthropy$290,000Education$106,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClearwater Free Clinic Inc: $3,650,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetCommunity Dental Clinic Inc: $3,165,000 over 7y, 49% of budgetMORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,060,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $859,500 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC: $390,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC: $285,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC: $260,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetHope Villages of America Inc: $235,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDunedin Fine Art Center: $226,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA: $175,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCREATED WOMEN INC: $105,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SUNCOAST INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFlorida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY WORKS INC: $65,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY: $41,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetCLEARWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetRUTH ECKERD HALL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS TAMPA BAY FLORIDA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRYAN WELLS FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetPINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PRIORITY OF TAMPA BAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Pinellas Community Fo…The H FoundationDwayne Hawkins Family…Michael G Cantonis Fo…Tampa Bay Charities I…Robert J and Jennifer…Rays Baseball Foundat…Vinik Family Foundati…Publix Super Markets …Northstar Family Foun…Bergoffen Family Foun…
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay IncFL34.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ruth & J O Stone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Ruth & J O Stone 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 35 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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