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Charles H Jones Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$993k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$545k
Largest
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MReligion$1.0MHealth$890kHuman Services$244kEnvironment$185kArts & Culture$135kRecreation & Sports$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $450
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $545k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$545,000
THE ARC MACON$200,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GA$100,000
FLINT RIVERKEEPER$50,000
MACON RBI CLUB$45,000
MACON WATER ALLIANCE$20,000
OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION$20,000
100 BLACK MEN MACON-MIDDLE GEORGIA$13,000
MACON CIVIC CLUB$450
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 (FY17–25, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASONIC HOME OF GEORGIA: $50k → 12%THE ARC MACON: $200k → 23%THE ARC MACON: $19k → 23%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

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CA
MO
VA
KS
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 12 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
40

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+35%

Still filing today

42%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentReligionEducationOther
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

  • TA
    THE ARC MACON INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $219k · revenue +48%
  • MO
    Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB Georgia Foundation Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +17%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +13% · 51% of their budget

Funded once

  • CC
    Crossroads Christian Counseling Center Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $600k · revenue 0% · 30% of their budget
  • RE
    RIVER EDGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +802% · 34% of their budget
  • MS
    MACON STATE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
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
Greater Macon Chamber of Commerce

To promote business, economic development, and community development within the greater macon area.

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2
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
3
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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4
Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia Inc

Strengthen and preserve the well-being of individuals, couples, and families through easy, affordable access to professional counseling services.

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5
Georgiaforward Inc

Georgiaforward's mission is to improve the state of georgia by working as a catalyst to promote cross-sector, statewide conversations and partnerships by engaging young professionals and business, political, academic, and civic leaders.

Civil Rights
6
Credit Union of Georgia

The credit union is a cooperative organized to provide members thrift savings and borrowings.

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7
Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer F/K/a It's the Journey

Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.

Health
8
Georgia Budget and Policy Institute Inc

The Georgia Budget & Policy Institute works to advance lasting solutions that expand economic opportunity and well-being for all Georgians. We produce research and state budget analysis to show Georgia ways to provide equitable education,…

Public Benefit
9
The Arc of Southwest Georgia Inc

Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.

Human Services
10
Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia Inc

The organization's mission is to build lives, families and communities one career at a time by helping people develop their god-given gifts through education, work and career development services. goodwill strives to end poverty one new…

Employment
11
Associated Credit Union

Associated credit union offers members financial products that fulfill their needs, service that exceeds their expectations, and relationships that inspire their trust.

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12
Middle Georgia Center for Independent Living Inc

To enable all people with disabilities to attain and have access to all opportunities in life.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Central Georgia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christians Teaching Christians. 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

24 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. 24 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $917,321 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCENTRAL GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $414,500 · OtherCENTRAL GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGEMIDDLE GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE: $400,000 · OtherMIDDLE GEORGIA STATE COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $305,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMACON STATE COLLEGE: $150,000 · OtherMACON STATE COLLEGEMACON WATER ALLIANCE: $125,000 · OtherMuseum of Aviation at Robins AFB Georgia Foundation Inc: $95,000 · Other+36 more: $386,483 · Other+36 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $1,006,678 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF…Hope For The Warriors: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCrossroads Christian Counseling Center Inc: $600,000 · HealthCrossroads Christia…RIVER EDGE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · HealthRIVER EDGE FOUNDATI…+2 more: $21,500 · HealthTHE ARC MACON INC: $218,500 · Human ServicesMasonic Home of Georgia: $50,000 · Human ServicesFLINT RIVERKEEPER INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentUS WATER ALLIANCE: $10,000 · EnvironmentCAMPUS CLUBS INC: $50,000 · ReligionCHRISTIANS TEACHING CHRISTIANS: $10,000 · ReligionNEWTOWN MACON INC: $30,000 · Community Improvement100 BLACK MEN MACON-MIDDLE GA INC: $13,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,793,304Philanthropy$1,056,678Health$871,500Human Services$268,500Environment$60,000Religion$60,000Community Improvement$43,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC: $1,006,678 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetCrossroads Christian Counseling Center Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetRIVER EDGE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetTHE ARC MACON INC: $218,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMuseum of Aviation at Robins AFB Georgia Foundation Inc: $95,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMasonic Home of Georgia: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAMPUS CLUBS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetNEWTOWN MACON INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED IN PINK INC: $20,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMACON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 27% of budget21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHRISTIANS TEACHING CHRISTIANS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetUS WATER ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMACON CIVIC CLUB INC: $900 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Crossroads Christian Counseling Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds RIVER EDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC MACON INC ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB Georgia Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLINT RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds Masonic Home of Georgia ↗
  • Who funds CAMPUS CLUBS INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWTOWN MACON INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED IN PINK INC ↗
  • Who funds MACON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds OTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds 100 BLACK MEN MACON-MIDDLE GA INC ↗
  • Who funds 21ST CENTURY LEADERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIANS TEACHING CHRISTIANS ↗
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
  • Who funds US WATER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗

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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA30.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · The Peyton Anderson Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · James Hyde Porter Testamentary Trust · Martin Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Peake Family Foundation · Robins Financial Credit Union · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Charles H Jones Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles H Jones Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Charles H Jones Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Charles H Jones Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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