· Private foundation
Allan Jones Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND & BRADLEY | $33,000 |
| CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING | $7,625 |
| BRADLEY COUNTY SCHOOLS | $6,844 |
| CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | $5,630 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE OCOEE REGION | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM CENTER AT FIVE POINTS | $4,000 |
| CASA OF BRADLEY & POLK COUNTIES | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION | $2,605 |
| CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL CHEER | $1,197 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB CHATTANOOGA | $1,030 |
| CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL | $1,015 |
| WALTER E BOEHM BIRTH DEFECTS CENTER | $1,000 |
| ROCKVALE HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD | $500 |
| MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF CHATTANOOGA | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF SANTA MONICA LIBRARY | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MHMEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2023 · $26k · revenue +179%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE OCOEE REGION2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +7%
- NWNATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION2× · 2019–2024 · $3k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- BCBRADLEY COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2018 · $16k
- AAATHENS AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -53%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Business development of members, economic growth of the region, and the highest quality of life for the ocoee region of tennessee.
Promote business and tourism in catoosa county and surrounding counties
Promotion of commerce
Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.
Education regarding matters of public concern to improve the quality and increase the quantity of economic growth and employment opportunities.
Cumberland 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 the patient's ability to pay.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
The mission of neca is to lead the electrical industry by example and to exemplify the highest levels of quality, skill, competence, value, and integrity.
To benefit and carry out the educational purposes of chattanooga state community college.
Roane County 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.
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
To promote business, enhance economic and community development, and serve as a catalyst for improving the overall quality of life in the community and region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical Foundation of Chattanooga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Empty Stocking Fund Formerly Bgl Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND AMATEUR RADIO CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE OCOEE REGION ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WREATHS ACROSS CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: George R Johnson Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Cleveland and Bradley County · Tucker Foundation · The McReynolds Family Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Allan Jones Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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