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Stone Family Foundation

Tulsa, OK · EIN 43-1773536. Reported 147 grants totalling $1,644,500 to 48 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,644,500granted, 2021-2025
48recipients, as named on its returns
78%of grantees funded again the next year
$6,111,899assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Stone Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
28 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
33 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
76 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Trinity Episcopal ChurchEl Dorado, KS$185,000552025
The Roxbury Arts Group IncRoxbury, NY$90,000552025
Nature ConservancyArlington, VA$84,000422025
Catskill Forest AssoiciationArkville, NY$82,000442024
Big Hole River Watershed CommitteeDivide, MT$80,000552025
Coutts Memorial Art MuseumEl Dorado, KS$80,000332023
Tulsa Botanic GardenTulsa, OK$70,000442025
Nature ConservancyTulsa, OK$65,000422023
World War II History Center FoundationEl Dorado, KS$64,000552025
Mark Project IncArkville, NY$57,000442025
Russell Childhood Development CenterGarden City, KS$53,000552025
Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics FoundationOklahoma City, OK$50,000552025
Wichita Art MuseumWichita, KS$50,000552025
Center for Comprehensive Health PracticeNew York, NY$45,000442025
Sooner Rowing AssociationTulsa, OK$44,000552025
Coutts Museum of ArtEl Dorado, KS$40,000222025
Botanica - the Wichita GardensWichita, KS$38,000552025
Butler County Historical SocietyEl Dorado, KS$36,000552025
Gilcrease MuseumTulsa, OK$35,000222025
Southwestern Art Association (philbrook Museum of Art)Tulsa, OK$30,000332023
Wichita SymphonyWichita, KS$30,000552025
Holland Hall SchoolTulsa, OK$23,000432023
The Graham Foundation IncEl Dorado, KS$22,500442025
Gilcrease Museum Management TrustTulsa, OK$20,000112022
Mark ArtsWichita, KS$20,000442024
Music Theater of WichitaWichita, KS$20,000552025
Nature Conservency - Oklahoma - Bison PreserveTulsa, OK$20,000112021
Nature Consevancy-Ok to Ks Border InitiativeArlington, VA$20,000112021
Philbrook Art MuseumTulsa, OK$20,000222025
The Junior League of the City of New YorkNew York, NY$18,000552025
Ahha TulsaTulsa, OK$15,000212021
Catskill Forest AssociationArkville, NY$15,000112025
CchpNew York, NY$15,000112021
Kansas State Historical SocietyTopeka, KS$12,000552025
Episcopal Diocese of KansasTopeka, KS$11,000552025
El Dorado Main StreetEl Dorado, KS$10,000112021
Lumberjack Booster ClubSt Maries, ID$10,000112021
Rooted Together FoundationButte, MT$10,000112025
The Clyde and Helen Graham Foundation IncEl Dorado, KS$10,000112021
The University of TulsaTulsa, OK$10,000112022
Leadership Butler IncEl Dorado, KS$8,000222022
St Luke's SchoolNew York, NY$6,000332023
Holland HallTulsa, OK$5,000112025
Tulsa SymphonyTulsa, OK$5,000112022
Kansas Governor's One Shot Turkey HuntEl Dorado, KS$4,000112021
El Dorado Commnity Foundation- Willis Scholarship FundNewton, KS$3,000112021
Friends SeminaryNew York, NY$2,000222022
Montana TechButte, MT$2,000112021

32 of 48 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 78%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 68 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
28 grants
Environment
13 grants
Education
11 grants
Community Improvement
6 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Mental Health
5 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202137$386,500$10,000
202232$326,000$10,000
202327$312,000$10,000
202424$305,000$10,000
202527$315,000$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

42% of its giving went to organizations in Kansas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Kansas
$696K
Oklahoma
$412K
New York
$330K
Virginia
$104K
Montana
$92K
Idaho
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc6 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Kansas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Stone Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 320 South Boston Avenue 1900, Tulsa, OK, 74103. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 43-1773536 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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