· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILKES MINISTRY OF HOPE | $3,000 |
| ADULT ENRICHMENT SERVICES OF WILKES INC | $2,000 |
| WILKES DEVELOPMENTAL DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| WILKES PUBLIC HEALTH DENTAL CLINIC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
32 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 2 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +134%
- AFASHE FOOD PANTRY INC5× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +840%
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- BFBOOMER FERGUSON ELEMENTARY PTOone grant, 2018 · $55k
- MVMOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARYone grant, 2018 · $33k
- EWEAST WILKES MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Economic development of wilkes county
The organization provides training and work programs for physically and/or mentally handicapped adults of wilkes county, nc. average enrollment = 40
Wilkes youth life development, inc is a youth-serving organization whose mission is to develop healthy and resilient youth in wilkes county so that they have the skills and support to become mentally and physically fit adults.
To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Wilmington christian school provides a christ-centered challenging academic program with instruction based on the biblical view of god and the world. wcs teaches, influences, and encourages each student to effectively integrate biblical…
Provide emergency human services
To offer women in need the hope of christ, support them in transforming their lives and help them get off of wilkens avenue and into professional detox center, safe housing and thriving lives.
The foundation operates to administer programs to promote and increase public knowledge, awareness and understanding of matters of public concern, and for improvements of health, safety, education and welfare of the citizens of wilmington,…
To educate through a commitment to attention, exceptional teaching, and academic excellence.
The united way of williams county improves the quality of life within its community by connecting volunteers, organizations and resources to advance health, education, and financial stability.
Improving nbsp;the nbsp;lives nbsp;of nbsp;under-resourced nbsp;adults nbsp;through nbsp;better nbsp;oral nbsp;health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adult Enrichment Services of Wilkes and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 84 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BAXTER DEPOT INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMY ELLIOTT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) ↗
- Who funds WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds EBENEZER CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds The Wilkes County Hall of Fame ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN KITCHEN OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds WILKES DENTAL CONSORTIUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WILKES DEVELOPMENTAL DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE H BARBER MEMORIAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILKES EDUCATION 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: 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
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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.