· Private foundation
The Stony Point 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k55 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $365k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC | $200,000 |
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION | $155,344 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE | $41,000 |
| GREENSBORO LAND TRUST | $30,000 |
| VERMONT LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| GREEN HEART PROJECT | $20,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN FARM TO SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY | $15,000 |
| THE HOTCHKISS FUND | $15,000 |
| STERLING COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN VERMONT | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2021, 18 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
- SMSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC5× · 2017–2021 · $972k · revenue +261%
- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $580k · revenue +8%
The Madeira School4× · 2017–2021 · $120k · revenue +254%
Funded once
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +88%
- WCWASHINGTON COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +16%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +89%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Hillwood estate, museum & garden's (hillwood) mission is to share the renowned art collections, exceptional gardens and related public and educational programs with a wide and diverse audience. since its opening, hillwood has served…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowcountry Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Belle W Baruch Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
102 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. 102 of the 153 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 SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Green Heart Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURES AND OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds IBU Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Copley Health Systems Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO FREE LIBRARY ↗
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Wisdom Connection Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Marilynn and John Hill Foundation Inc · Magnolia Plantation Foundation · Post and Courier 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 Stony Point 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Institute for Sustainable Communities — 100% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Craftsbury Saplings Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Vermont Farm-to-School Inc — 7% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Craftsbury Community Care Center — 1% of income from government
- Copley Health Systems Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greensboro Free Library — 1% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.