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.

The Stone Foundation

The Stone Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$898kHuman Services$46kInternational$46kReligion$35kFood & Nutrition$34kHealth$23kArts & Culture$22kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$965k · 32 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$965k

$272k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+33%

Still filing today

59%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesReligionEducationHealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSE
8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +134%
AF
ASHE FOOD PANTRY INC
5× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +840%
AS
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +201%

Funded once

BF
BOOMER FERGUSON ELEMENTARY PTO
one grant, 2018 · $55k
MV
MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY
one grant, 2018 · $33k
EW
EAST WILKES MIDDLE SCHOOL
one grant, 2018 · $25k

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.

Wilkes Economic Development Corporation

Economic development of wilkes county

Community Improvement

Wilkes Adult Developmental Activities Program Inc

The organization provides training and work programs for physically and/or mentally handicapped adults of wilkes county, nc. average enrollment = 40

Employment

Wilkes Youth Life Development Inc

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.

Youth Development

Wilkes Medical Center Foundation

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.

Health

Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter

Wilmington Christian School Inc

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…

Education

Waynesboro Community & Human Services in

Provide emergency human services

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Living Well On Wilkens Inc

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.

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Greater Wilmington Chamber Foundation

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,…

Community Improvement

Wilkes University

To educate through a commitment to attention, exceptional teaching, and academic excellence.

Education

United Way of Williams County

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.

Philanthropy

Raleigh-Wake County Dental Society Community Dental Health Program Inc

Improving nbsp;the nbsp;lives nbsp;of nbsp;under-resourced nbsp;adults nbsp;through nbsp;better nbsp;oral nbsp;health

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adult Enrichment Services of Wilkes; 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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 84 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

28/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,075,823Religion$54,700Human Services$51,110Education$26,800Arts & Culture$22,000Health$5,450Community Improvement$4,850

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

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.

The Leonard G Herring Family FoundationNC41.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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 · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home