· Private foundation
Watson Stone Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARDADA PARDADI EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY | $26,500 |
| CHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER | $26,000 |
| PICKERING CREEK AUDUBON CENTER | $18,100 |
| MARYLAND FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS | $10,000 |
| FAIRPLAY | $5,000 |
| TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER | $5,000 |
| SHORERIVERS | $5,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| AVALON FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| TALBOT HOSPICE FDN | $1,500 |
| MARYLAND PUBLIC TELEVISION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ATKINS ARBORETUM | $1,000 |
| ALLEGRO ACADEMY | $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 US giving — 80% of grant dollars ($533k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($136k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Beyond the US — 20% of all-years giving ($136k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +14% since the first grant, against -55% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- CMCHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +98%
- TMTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +18%
- SISHORERIVERS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ACASBURY CHURCH RENOVATION FUNDone grant, 2021 · $3k
- WSWALDORF SCHOOL CAP CAMPAIGNone grant, 2020 · $1k
- GIGALAPAGOS ISLAND RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Bay-journal media is a non-profit whose mission is to expand independent, unbiased reporting that informs the public about environmental issues affecting the chesapeake bay and which inspires effective action to restore, protect, and…
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
Chesapeake bay trust is a public, nonprofit grant-making organization created to promote public awareness of and participation in the restoration and protection of the chesapeake bay and its tributaries. (see schedule o for continuation)…
To foster appreciation of delmarva's unique natural and cultural heritage through education, exploration and enjoyment.
The chesapeake audubon society works in the maryland region to promote the stewardship of natural ecosystems through conservation, restoration, education, and advocacy.
Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
Delaware nature society connects people with the natural world to improve our environment through education, advocacy, and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maryland Matters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 62 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 CHESAPEAKE MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT INTERFAITH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRPLAY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT MENTORSINC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ADKINS ARBORETUM LTD ↗
- Who funds Allegro Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds OLD-GROWTH FOREST NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOR ALL SEASONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE WILDLIFE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FUND OF TALBOT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 Llandaff Family Trust · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Dock Street Foundation · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · T & M Mitchell Fdn Dima-Blrk · The Wyman Family Foundation Inc · The Rosenfeld Rumford Steckler Family Foundation Inc · Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc · Richard J and Ellen G Bodorff Charitable Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Michael and Nancy Klein Foundation Inc
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 Watson Stone Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- Baltimore Heritage Incorporated — 63% of income from government
- For All Seasons Inc — 22% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Avalon Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Academy Art Museum Inc — 5% 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.