Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC
STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,398 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $277k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $239k
What Stone Soup Productions Inc does
Mission
Stone soup productions creates educational multimedia that;a) highlights the rich cultural diversity of the u.s. B) inspires understanding by helping audiences see through multiple perspectives and find common ground; and c) empowers people to drive positive, inclusive and healthy societal change
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program Name: The Peoples Recorder PodcastDescription: Stone Soup Productions continues production on The Peoples Recorderpodcast. Inspired by the Federal Writers Project of the 1930s, the series connects past and present through stories of ordinary Americans.Accomplishments: The Peoples Recorder podcast episodes have reached over 32,000downloads and streams, and the series was the recipient of the Silver Signal Award for History Podcasting. The podcast was also a centerpiece of panel discussions at the Oral History Association and American Historical Association conferences. In 2025, six bonus episodes were also produced and released, alongside continuing production on a three-part miniseries to be released in Fall 2026.Mission Link: This project advances Stone Soups mission to transform storytelling into social impact and to foster empathy through the humanities by illuminating shared histories.
$131,250 spent90% of program spendingProgram Name: Public Defender Book Donation Drive for Prison LibrariesDescription: In partnership with the documentary Public Defender, Stone Soup hascontinued a national book drive to support prison libraries and literacy programs.Accomplishments: Through screening events and personal donations, the drive collected over 1,100 donated books for incarcerated individuals and their families. Partners included DC Books to Prisons, Free Minds Book Club and Community Stories Film Festival in Washington, DC, and American Public Square in Kansas City.Mission Link: This initiative embodies Stone Soups belief in the power of stories to foster empathy, bridge divides, and create opportunities for learning and rehabilitation.
$15,040 spent10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $146,290.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $132k to $239k (+82%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $89.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC’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
STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 38% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $592k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$525k
- Department of State$67k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC: 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 STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC?
- STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,398 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $47,398 in grants to STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC?
- CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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