· Private foundation
Edward L & Ruth J Jones Charitable 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHOP POINT SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| CITIES CHURCH | $5,000 |
| DAMARISCOTTA BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| REDEEMER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CALVARY ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HOLY CHURCH OF THE C&MA | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 90% 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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- CCCOASTAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC2× · 2018–2022 · $69k · revenue -1%
- JAJoseph and Alice McKeen Study Center6× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue -69% · 71% of their budget
- CPCHOP POINT SCHOOL2× · 2017–2025 · $27k
Funded once
- TSTRINITY SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +10%
- CACLC AMBULANCE SERVICEone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TPTHE PHILIPPIAN FELLOWSHIPgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +59%
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.
Penobscot Christian School exists to provide classical Christian education that cultivates life-long learners who love God, love others, and engage culture.
Mirus academy exists to mature students in their love of truth and their true love of others. mirus academy seeks to: a. provide the highest academic rigor while also encouraging the greatest of humilities in character. b. ensure that the…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Portsmouth christian academy exists to honor god joyfully by inspiring students to maximize their god-given potential.
In partnership with parents, hca develops students who impact the kingdon and their culture b employing a christ-centered curriculum taught with excellence by gifted educators who embrace the classical model of education. hca emphasized…
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
The mission of the academy is to study and teach the truths of the natural and spiritual worlds in the light of the old testament, the new testament, and the writings of emanuel swedenborg. this is done at the academy of the new church…
Students will increase their understanding of the way in which God created our world with its beautiful unity and rich variety and how we as Christians are to see our responsibilities toward our world and man.Students will realize that…
The mission of maryville christian school is to partner with christian parents by providing an academically excellent, biblically-based education,producing students with distinctive christian character.
The mission of trinity academy of portland is to educate middle and high school students within a joyful christian school culture marked by the discovery of truth, the practice of goodness, the creation of beauty, and the development of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Philippian Fellowship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 37 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.
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: The Ruth J Jones Charitable Foundation · The Marjorie C Bailey Charitable Foundation · The First Fruits Foundation · Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable Foundation · The Audrey P Connor Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Edward L & Ruth J Jones Charitable 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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