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Dennis M 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of DENNIS M JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $500,000 |
| CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS | $360,000 |
| NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE | $200,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $200,000 |
| THE COVERING HOUSE | $200,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $200,000 |
| PETER AND PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $200,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $120,000 |
| FOSTER CARE COALITION | $100,000 |
| NPOWER INC | $100,000 |
| LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $100,000 |
| FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST PATRICK CENTER | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those 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.
48 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $710k 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
- CTCONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +7%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2018–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +9%
- LFLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +144%
Funded once
- RCRoman Catholic Foundation of Eastern MOone grant, 2023 · $200k
- FCFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUISgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $180k · revenue +44%
- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPSone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +8%
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.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
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…
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections to Success and the most unlike its peers is Mlb-Mlbpa Youth Development Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 12% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 90 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 CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS IN THE KNOW ↗
- Who funds CHURCHILL SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds OUR LADYS INN ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COVERING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS ADVOCATES FOR TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHOWME AQUATICS AND FITNESS ↗
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: World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Pott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · G Andrew Franz Family 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 Dennis M 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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