Skip to content
Erik Jones Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$105kAnimals$35kScience & Tech$20kReligion$13kPublic Benefit$12k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $55,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $93,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
SHIAWASSEE REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT$20,000
NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 5%MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%SHIAWASSEE REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT: $20k → 12%HURLEY FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%COMMUNICATION IS KEY AAC: $12k → 21%MOTOR RACING OUTREACH: $13k → 8%COLORADO MELANOMA FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 8%ADOPT A PET: $25k → 6%NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $15k → 5%MID MICHIGAN POLICE CANINE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 16%NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating a cure for each and every multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies,…

Health
2
Aim At Melanoma

Aim at melanoma (aim) is globally engaged and locally invested in advancing the battle against melanoma through innovative research, legislative reform, education, and patient and caregiver support. founded in 2004, aim at melanoma is the…

Health
3
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
6
Northern Michigan Hematology and Oncology

Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.

Health
7
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
8
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
9
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Superior Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Communication Is Key Aac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INCATRIUM HEALTH INC: $25,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH INCSUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthSUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATIONCOLORADO MELANOMA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthCOLORADO MELANOMA FOUNDATION INCADOPT-A-PET INC: $25,000 · OtherADOPT-A-PET INCIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHIAWASSEE REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVI: $20,000 · OtherSHIAWASSEE REGIONAL EDUCATION SERVIMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONMID MICHIGAN POLICE CANINE ASSOCIAT ION: $5,000 · OtherMID MICHIGAN POLICE CANINE ASSOCIAT…HURLEY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Civil RightsHURLEY FO…Charity Navigator: $20,000 · Human ServicesCharity N…Motor Racing Outreach Inc: $12,900 · ReligionCOMMUNICATION IS KEY AAC: $12,000 · Public BenefitBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $5,000 · Animals
Health$95,000Other$75,000Civil Rights$20,000Human Services$20,000Religion$12,900Public Benefit$12,000Animals$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCharity Navigator: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO MELANOMA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMotor Racing Outreach Inc: $12,900 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNICATION IS KEY AAC: $12,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Erik Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Erik Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Erik Jones’ filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home