Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LIVING STONES
LIVING STONES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,750 to it, the largest being THE NICELY RIDGE FOUNDATION ($108,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $233k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $225k
- Net assets
- $403k
What Living Stones does
Mission
Living Stones exists to invite neighbors to the table, where we strive to holistically uplift them through meals, programs, and services that meet their needs and exemplify the love of christ.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our meal ministry - it all begins with a meal. Meals are the very heart and soul of our ministry. Living Stones is dedicated to tackling food insecurity by rescuing food from health certified institutions that would otherwise throw it out, and providing nourishing meals to all who join us. We create a welcoming environment where both strangers and friends can come together around a table. Living Stones has rescued more than 14,000 pounds of food each year. All of the food we rescue and prepare is eaten on site or taken away in to-go containers, and no food is wasted.
$56,266 spent39% of program spendingMy monday thing - a popular program all about providing neighbors with an opportunity for more than the food and fellowship they enjoy at our sunday meals. On regularly scheduled mondays, our neighbors are invited to join us for a hot breakfast and lunch buffet. They can also receive free haircuts and styling. Additionally, they have access to our free clothing boutique and can participate in craft activities.
$50,116 spent35% of program spendingHealth and home - to help our neighbors maintain good health and live safely, our part-time community health worker, who is present at all our meals and programs, is responsible for connecting people with resources beyond what we can offer, including housing, safety, and financial assistance. The community health worker also serves as our community outreach coordinator, and is responsible for understanding the needs and prayers of our neighbors and following up with them when needed.
$38,837 spent27% of program spendingLiving Stones is a christian-based nonprofit committed to nurturing the holistic well-being of the individuals we serve. By providing comprehensive support that begins during meals with our neighbors, we strive to uplift and empower each one by addressing their physical, spiritual, and social needs. Many of those we serve are elderly and face food insecurity and lack social support and capital. We are dedicated to building relationships with and among our neighbors to combat loneliness.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $145,219.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $136k to $236k (+73%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of LIVING STONES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $38k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LIVING STONES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LIVING STONES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LIVING STONES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2021 76% · 2022 91% · 2023 74% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of LIVING STONES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of LIVING STONES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LIVING STONES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LIVING STONES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVING STONES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIVING STONES?
- LIVING STONES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,750 to it, the largest being THE NICELY RIDGE FOUNDATION ($108,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVING STONES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $224,750 in grants to LIVING STONES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING STONES?
- THE NICELY RIDGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $108,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING STONES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing