· Private foundation
The Stone Soup Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Middlebury College | $15,000 |
| Brown University | $15,000 |
| SOME | $5,000 |
| Capital Area Food Bank | $5,000 |
| DC Central Kitchen | $5,000 |
| Brown Sports Foundation | $3,000 |
| Yale University | $2,500 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $2,500 |
| Phillips Academy | $2,500 |
| Food and Friends | $2,500 |
| Americares | $2,500 |
| Save the Children | $2,500 |
| Bethesda Cares Inc | $2,500 |
| Educorp | $2,500 |
| Alzheimers Association | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBETHESDA CARES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +150%
- SISOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +30%
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TMThe Mederia Schoolone grant, 2019 · $25k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +34%- EMECOVA MALIone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Education and Research
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST WOODS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds KENYA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Leonard a and Linda K Greenberg Charitable Foundation Inc · Spm Foundation Inc · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stone Soup Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stone Soup Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
- Imagination Stage Inc: 13% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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