· Private foundation
Frances and Fm Jones Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of FRANCES AND FM 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANDALUSIA CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $55,000 |
| COVINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| ANDALUSIA KIWANIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ANDALUSIA COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BETHESDA HOUSE | $8,000 |
| MEREDITH MIRACLES | $6,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COV CO | $6,000 |
| FULL TUMMY PROJECT OF COVINGTON CO | $6,000 |
| MEGAN KELLEY SMILES FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CROSSOVER MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| COVINGTON CO CHILD ADVOCACY | $5,000 |
| LBW COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- FTFull Tummy Project of Covington County5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +73%
- MMMerediths Miracles Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +163%
- ACANDALUSIA COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -100%
- PFPILOTS FOR CHRIST INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -33%
- ABANDALUSIA BALLET ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +41%
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.
To provide foundations of education, rec
The primary purpose of this organization is to help the less fortunate and to feed and cloth the homeless men and women in the greater Birmingham area.
The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.
To provide services to low income individuals and families in jackson county al during the christmas season. services include providing toys clothing food and household supplies to children elderly and disabled.
Our charity makes pillowcases for patients of Childrens of Alabama We supply income to vendors to sew the pillowcases and wash and package the pillowcases We have made approximately 28000 pillowcases sind 2014
Provide food to needy children
To provide food to those in need
For the Christmas of 2025 we served our highest number of children to date with gifts provided for 1,014 children from families experiencing hardships who otherwise would not have a Christmas, This was accomplished by coordination of…
Support for families of soldiers killed in war
Giving to people in need.
Food To The Needy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Andalusia Community Christmas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 29 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 The Andalusia Kiwanis Club Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Full Tummy Project of Covington County ↗
- Who funds Merediths Miracles Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDALUSIA COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds PILOTS FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds Meals of Love Opp ↗
- Who funds ANDALUSIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Angel of Hope for Covington County ↗
- Who funds ANDALUSIA CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Covington County United Fund Inc ↗
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.
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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 Frances and Fm 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.
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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