North Carolina · Private foundation
The 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.
- $8k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Stone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 4 | $8k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $131k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $138k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $76k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $104k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $349k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $94k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $239k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilkes County Schools | $608,469 | 7 | n/a |
| Boomer Ferguson Elementary PTO | $55,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $45,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Ashe Food Pantry Inc | $28,310 | 5 | 1% |
| Ashe County Schools | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Baxter Depot Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 71% |
| Appalachian State University Foundation Inc | $10,026 | 4 | 0% |
| Jeremy Elliott Scholarship Foundation | $9,800 | 6 | 1% |
| Wilkes Community College Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Blue Ridge Opportunity Commission Inc | $7,800 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($336k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Stone Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · United Way of Wilkes County Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Health Foundation Inc · Wilkes Medical Center Foundation · The Carson Foundation · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · Speedway Children's Charities · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation · Syla Foundation
How this is measured
About The Stone Foundation
- How much does The Stone Foundation give?
- The Stone Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $8,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Stone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (72%), Human Services (4%), International (4%).
- Who are The Stone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wilkes County Schools ($608k), Boomer Ferguson Elementary PTO ($55k), Samaritan's Purse ($46k).
- Does The Stone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The 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 Stone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation, The Winston-Salem Foundation, United Way of Wilkes County Inc.
- Where is The Stone Foundation based?
- The Stone Foundation is based in NC.
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