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Gary and Christine Jones Foundation at a glance

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Gary and Christine Jones Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$138kAnimals$48kYouth Development$36kHealth$27kRecreation & Sports$18kCommunity Improvement$18kPublic Benefit$15kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$1,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$621k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES$24,000
Individual grant recipient$17,550
Individual grant recipient$8,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF STILLWATER$5,000
CHANDLER CARE CENTER$4,000
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,500
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA$1,500
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA$1,000
HALO ANIMAL RESCUE$1,000
TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$500
ARIZONA EMERALD SOCIETY$500
YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$500
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK$500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION IN: $10k → 11%ARIZONA BOMBERS SOFTBALL CLUB: $10k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA: $2k → 14%YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $2k → 15%BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $8k → 17%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA: $1k → 6%ASPCA: $3k → 17%NANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES: $24k → 8%HUMANE SOCIETY OF STILLWATER: $5k → 19%NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10k → 15%TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA: $3k → 16%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA: $2k → 14%YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $1k → 15%ASPCA: $2k → 17%WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA: $3k → 16%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $3k → 11%ASPCA: $2k → 17%WREATHS ACCROSS AMERICA: $3k → 16%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $3k → 11%WREATHS ACCROSS AMERICA: $3k → 16%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $3k → 11%WREATHS ACCROSS AMERICA: $3k → 16%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2k → 11%CHANDLER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14k → 11%CHANDLER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%CHANDLER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CHANDLER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CHANDLER HIGH SCHOOL: $33k → 11%CHANDLER HIGH SCHOOL: $29k → 11%CHANDLER HIGH SCHOOL: $27k → 11%CHANDLER HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 11%CHANDLER TRACK BOOSTERS: $8k → 11%CHANDLER CARE CENTER: $4k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 11%ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 11%ARIZONA DIAMONDBACK FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HALO ANIMAL RESCUE: $4k → 11%HALO ANIMAL RESCUE: $3k → 11%HALO ANIMAL RESCUE: $2k → 11%HALO ANIMAL RESCUE: $2k → 11%IMPACT CHURCH: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
MI
NY
MA
CA
CO
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VA
AZ
OK
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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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$273k · 15 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$273k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+48%

Still filing today

73%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsPublic BenefitPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CE
    CHANDLER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $33k · revenue +77%
  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CHANDLER ROTARY CLUB
    3× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +7%
  • AH
    Arizona Humane Society
    6× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • NT
    NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • CF
    CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -89%
  • AB
    ARIZONA BOMBERS SOFTBALL CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its 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
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
2
Alliance for Arizona Animal Protection

Prevention of animal cruelty and intervention on behalf of animals being abused.

Animals
3
Humane Society of Yuma

To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.

Animals
4
The Arizona Animal Welfare League

The mission of aawl/spca is to provide excellent care, protection, and loving compassion for the life of the animals entrusted to us and to take a leadership role in promoting humane values for the benefit of all animals and people. aawl…

Animals
5
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
6
The Dons of Arizona
Education
7
Best Friends Animal Society

To bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. we do this by demonstrating and promoting exemplary animal care and building community programs and partnerships.

Animals
8
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv

Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…

Unclassified
9
Humane Society Silicon Valley

At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)

Animals
10
Cheyenne Animal Shelter

The mission of the cheyenne animal shelter is to enhance the quality of life for animals and people through compassion, respect and education.

Animals
11
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
12
Utah Animal Adoption Center

The organization is dedicated to reducing pet overpopulation, eliminating euthanasia as a means of controlling pet overpopulation, and preventing animal suffering in utah.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is The Humane Society of Stillwater Oklahoma Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHANDLER HIGH SCHOOL: $105,295 · OtherCHANDLER HIGH SCHOOLCHANDLER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 · OtherCHANDLER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCROTARY INTERNATIONAL CHANDLER ROTARY CLUB: $18,000 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONAL CHANDLER ROTARY CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $17,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10,000 · OtherARIZONA BOMBERS SOFTBALL CLUB: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherBASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $8,000 · Other+8 more: $16,800 · Other+8 moreArizona Humane Society: $15,700 · AnimalsArizona Humane…HALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC: $12,100 · AnimalsHALO HELPING A…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN S…The Humane Society of Stillwater Oklahoma Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsThe Humane Soc…HUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC: $4,300 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY…NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $3,700 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE AN…NANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES: $34,000 · EducationNANCY LIEB…Wreaths Across America: $15,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $200 · Public BenefitPhoenix Children's Hospital: $10,500 · HealthCHANDLER CARE CENTER CHILDRENS MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC INC: $4,000 · HealthCELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS FOUNDATIONINC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE: $500 · Arts & CultureYUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,700 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$226,645Animals$47,800Education$34,000Public Benefit$15,200Health$14,500Philanthropy$10,500Arts & Culture$10,500Food & Nutrition$4,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES: $34,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHANDLER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL CHANDLER ROTARY CLUB: $18,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $15,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC: $12,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS FOUNDATIONINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humane Society of Stillwater Oklahoma Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC: $4,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHANDLER CARE CENTER CHILDRENS MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $3,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $3,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arizona Community Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Gary and Christine Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gary and Christine Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 33 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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