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The Stone Foundation of New Jersey

Leonardo, NJ · EIN 13-3947516. Reported 147 grants totalling $3,045,265 to 69 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$15,000median grant
$3,045,265granted, 2021-2024
69organizations funded
88%of grantees funded again the next year
$36.5Massets, 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. The Stone Foundation of New Jersey 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 $15,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $8,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $190 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
35 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
57 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
48 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 and Up
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Wabanaki Commission on Land StewardOrono, ME$525,000212024
Cobscook Community Learning CenterTrescott, ME$150,000442024
NiweskokMilford, ME$150,000112024
180 Turning Lives AroundHazlet, NJ$111,300542024
Habcore IncRed Bank, NJ$111,300542024
New Jersey Conservation FoundationFar Hills, NJ$105,000442024
Interfaith NeighborsAsbury Park, NJ$103,300442024
New Jersey Repertory CompanyLong Branch, NJ$103,300442024
Parker Family Health Center IncRed Bank, NJ$103,300442024
Two River Theater CompanyRed Bank, NJ$103,300442024
Cpc Behavorial Healthcare IncEatontown, NJ$103,000442024
Greater Newark ConservancyNewark, NJ$100,000442024
Sharron Miller's AcademyMontclair, NJ$100,000442024
Lunch Break IncRed Bank, NJ$96,000542024
Partners for Women and JusticeMontclair, NJ$90,000442024
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth & Middlesex CountyAsbury Park, NJ$88,300442024
Brookdale Comm College FoundationLincroft, NJ$83,300442024
Frenchman's Bay ConservancyHancock, ME$60,000332023
Wabanaki Cultural Preservation CoalOld Town, ME$60,000212024
The Land Conservancy of New JerseyBoonton, NJ$51,000442024
Family and Children's Service IncLong Branch, NJ$43,300442024
Association of Nj Env Commissions Environmental CommissionsMendham, NJ$42,000442024
New Learning JourneyFayston, VT$40,000332023
Asbury Park Music FoundationAsbury Park, NJ$35,000442024
Springpoint Senior Living IncWall Township, NJ$34,975442024
Essex Cty Family Justice CenterNewark, NJ$30,000442024
Collier Youth ServicesWicatunk, NJ$25,000222024
Affordable Housing AllianceNeptune, NJ$23,300112024
New Jersey Consortium for ImmigrantJersey City, NJ$20,000222024
Henry D Moore Parish House & LibraSteuben, ME$15,000332023
New Jersey Highlands CoalitionBoonton, NJ$15,000112024
Pinelands Preservation AllianceSouthhampton, NJ$15,000112024
Princeton Area CommunityPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112022
Princeton Area CommunityLawrenceville, NJ$15,000112021
The New Jersey Arts & Culture RenewPrinceton, NJ$15,000112024
Mental Health Assn of MonmouthTinton Falls, NJ$13,300112024
Monmouth Conservation FoundationMiddletown, NJ$13,300112024
The YMCA of Greater MonmouthShrewsbury, NJ$13,300112024
Trinity Episcopal ChurchAsbury Park, NJ$13,300112024
Convenant House New JerseyNewark, NJ$10,000112024
Gathering Ground IncNeptune, NJ$10,000112024
Inspire LifeNeptune, NJ$10,000112024
Konscious Youth Development & ServiAsbury Park, NJ$10,000112024
Land Peace FoundationBangor, ME$10,000112024
Maine-Wabanaki ReachStillwater, ME$10,000112024
Monmouth County Arts Council IncRed Bank, NJ$10,000112024
New Jersey Audubon SocietyBernardsville, NJ$10,000112021
New Jersey League on Conserv VotersHamilton, NJ$10,000112024
Schoodic Arts for AllWinter Harbor, ME$10,000112021
Shore Clubhouse IncLong Branch, NJ$10,000112024
Why HungerNew York, NY$10,000112024
T Thomas Fortune FoundationRed Bank, NJ$8,000112024
Arts Ed of NjBurlington, NJ$7,500112024
Allaire Village IncFarmingdale, NJ$5,000112024
Asbury Park African Music FoundatioAsbury Park, NJ$5,000112024
Bloom Again Foundation New JerseyRed Bank, NJ$5,000112024
Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth CouAsbury Park, NJ$5,000112024
Charles River Watershed AssocWeston, MA$5,000112021
Clean Ocean ActionLong Branch, NJ$5,000112024
Community Fdtn of NjMorristown, NJ$5,000112021
Community Foundation of NjMorristown, NJ$5,000112022
Girl Scouts of the Shore IncFarmingdale, NJ$5,000112024
Habitat for Humanity in Monmouth CoFreehold, NJ$5,000112024
Jewish Family & Child Serv of MonAsbury Ppark, NJ$5,000112024
Move for HungerNeptune, NJ$5,000112024
New Jersey Theatre AllianceToms River, NJ$5,000112024
Reach Out and Read IncBoston, MA$5,000112024
The Center in Asbury ParkAsbury Park, NJ$5,000112024
Council of New Jersey GrantmakersTrenton, NJ$590332024

27 of 69 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 88%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 71 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Environment
20 grants
Arts & Culture
19 grants
Human Services
9 grants
Food & Nutrition
7 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202130$498,600$17,500
202227$463,790$20,000
202326$473,800$22,500
202464$1,609,075$13,300

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 65% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New Jersey
$2.0M
Maine
$990K
Vermont
$40K
Pennsylvania
$15K
Massachusetts
$10K
New York
$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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund27 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of New Jersey27 shared recipientsOceanfirst Foundation23 shared recipientsNew Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity18 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc18 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc18 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $15,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Jersey.
  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 The Stone Foundation of New Jersey's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 117, Leonardo, NJ, 07737. 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 13-3947516 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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