Michigan · Public charity
Erik Jones Foundation
To change lives by igniting childrens passion for reading, encouraging early cancer detection and care, and promoting animal welfare.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 86%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $55k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $53k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Erik Jones Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $55k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $95k | 86% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $70k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Atrium Health Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Adopt-A-Pet Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shiawassee Regional Education Servi | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Superior Health Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hurley Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Charity Navigator | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Melanoma Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Motor Racing Outreach Inc | $12,900 | 1 | 1% |
| Communication Is Key Aac | $12,000 | 1 | 25% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Atrium Health Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Adopt-A-Pet Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shiawassee Regional Education Servi | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Superior Health Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hurley Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Charity Navigator | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Melanoma Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Motor Racing Outreach Inc | $12,900 | 1 | 1% |
| Communication Is Key Aac | $12,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Melanoma Research Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mid Michigan Police Canine Associat Ion | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Erik Jones Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Erik Jones Foundation
- How much does Erik Jones Foundation give?
- Erik Jones Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $55,000, out of $93,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Erik Jones Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (57%), Animals (19%), Science & Tech (11%).
- Who are Erik Jones Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ($35k), Atrium Health Inc ($25k), Adopt-A-Pet Inc ($25k).
- Does Erik Jones Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Erik Jones Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Erik Jones Foundation based?
- Erik Jones Foundation is based in MI.
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