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Clay and Debbie Jones Family 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$5.9MHealth$1.8MReligion$486kHousing & Shelter$181kArts & Culture$33kPhilanthropy$24kFood & Nutrition$6kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $367k
  • $250k+1 grant · $700k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION$700,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$210,000
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI$100,000
ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$57,000
JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPIT$25,000
THE SHELTER$10,000
CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD$9,000
MOFFITT CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION$5,000
MAYO CLINIC$5,000
NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM$5,000
BLUE RIDGE FREE DENTAL CLINIC$2,525
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 9%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES: $10k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES: $10k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES: $10k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES: $10k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.3M · 16 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$8.3M
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+9%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +178%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +40%
  • PD
    Phi Delta Theta Foundation
    5× · 2017–2023 · $203k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -31%
  • CE
    CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +9%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

3
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…

Education
4
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

5
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
6
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
7
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
10
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
11
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
12
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $5,643,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,620,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & R…MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CEN…+2 more — $25,525 · HealthST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $458,000 · OtherST JOHNS EP…Phi Delta Theta Foundation — $203,000 · OtherPhi Delta T…THE SHELTER — $81,000 · OtherTHE SHELTERJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPIT — $75,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKI…+12 more — $64,100 · Other+12 moreST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $41,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,000 · Human ServicesSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $31,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Education$5,643,000Health$1,745,525Other$881,100Housing & Shelter$100,000Human Services$43,000Arts & Culture$31,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $5,643,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,620,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPhi Delta Theta Foundation — $203,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $41,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSwinging with Purpose Inc — $4,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC — $2,525 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation
  • Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA
  • Who funds Swinging with Purpose Inc
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
  • Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Clay and Debbie Jones Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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