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Alfred W & Nancy M Jones Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$655k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.9MRecreation & Sports$538kHealth$60kYouth Development$45kArts & Culture$30kHuman Services$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $145k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESTONWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER$35,000
LINDALE EAGLES BASS CLUB$15,000
ACE SCHOLARSHIPS TEXAS LLC$15,000
PATH PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP$10,000
ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY$10,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$10,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
TYLER JR GOLF FOUNDATION$10,000
AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE COLEMAN FUND$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 5%PATH PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $10k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%PATH-PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $10k → 12%PATH PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CO
KY
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 9 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$2.6M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+90%

Still filing today

44%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PP
    PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP
    3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +6%
  • AA
    ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY
    3× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +12%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • FT
    FIRST TEE OF GREATER TYLER
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • ET
    EAST TEXAS ALZHEIMER'S ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +90%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
3
Ssm Health Care of Oklahoma Inc

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health
4
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
5
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
6
Catholic Charities- Diocese of Tyler

Catholic charities-diocese of tyler is a servant of the body of christ engaged in works of mercy to ease suffering of the poor, the hungry, the naked, the sick, the homeless, the immigrant, the least amoung us, our brethren in east texas.…

Philanthropy
7
St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
8
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
9
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
12
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shriners Hospitals for Children; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Coleman Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESTONWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1,875,000 · OtherPRESTONWOOD CHRISTIAN ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER: $547,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER+6 more: $120,000 · OtherPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmazing Grace Food Pantry: $5,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $10,000 · ReligionEAST TEXAS ALZHEIMER'S ALLIANCE: $10,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE COLEMAN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education
Other$2,542,500Human Services$45,000Arts & Culture$20,000Religion$20,000Health$20,000Philanthropy$10,000Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COLEMAN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS ALZHEIMER'S ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmazing Grace Food Pantry: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alfred W & Nancy M Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred W & Nancy M Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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