· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHOP POINT SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HOLY CHURCH OF THE C&MA | $5,000 |
| CALVARY ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| CITIES CHURCH | $5,000 |
| REDEEMER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| DAMARISCOTTA BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- EIEVANGELICAL INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward L & Ruth J Jones Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward L & Ruth J Jones Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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