· Private foundation
David B 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $348k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $887k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS SOUTH DAKOTA INC | $202,500 |
| MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES | $145,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $86,315 |
| BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $85,207 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUND | $70,000 |
| MINNESOTA CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $65,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $62,337 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $60,146 |
| IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| SCIENCE KIDS | $50,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $49,156 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $41,702 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $39,156 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCE | $38,788 |
| ALBION COLLEGE | $37,334 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of David B Jones Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $566k 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
- MSMAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS4× · 2020–2024 · $563k · revenue +63%
- NCNormandale Community College Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $359k · revenue +412%
- CMColorado Museum of Natural History5× · 2020–2024 · $291k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- NWNorthern Wyoming Community College Foundationone grant, 2021 · $81k · revenue -28%
- DMDES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $61k · revenue +33%
- SMSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $61k · revenue +51%
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
Supports the teaching of mineralogical concepts and procedures, and attempts to raise the scientific literacy of society with respect to issues involving mineralogy in the widest sense. The Society publishes journals, a magazine, and…
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The Museum inspires wonder, discovery, and stewardship of our natural world. The Museum is a catalyst for conservation and a valued learning resource, facilitating active scientific and historical inquiry for all ages.
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Raymond M Alf Museum of Paleontology and the most unlike its peers is Bighorn Basin Paleotological Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 52 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 SIOUX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds Normandale Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds THE RAYMOND M ALF MUSEUM OF PALEONTOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PAVILION MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE KIDS ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NDGS PALEO ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Northern Wyoming Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Idaho State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TOWSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds CSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DINOSAUR RIDGE ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PHOENIX ↗
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: National Geographic Society · South Dakota Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 David B 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.
- Delaware Academy of Science Inc — 99% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
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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