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Guy & Lucile Jones Family Foundation at a glance

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Guy & Lucile Jones Family 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.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.4MArts & Culture$120kRecreation & Sports$75kHousing & Shelter$66kHuman Services$26kCrime & Legal$23kHealth$11kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Women of Worth$30,000
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$25,000
Recovery Through Christ$10,000
Magnolia Foundation$4,000
Kim Alverson Foundation$400
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EMPOWER ME DAY CAMP: $2k → 7%Alive Hospice: $5k → 14%Alive Hospice: $100 → 14%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 5 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$1.5M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-5%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FU
    FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +41%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +19%
  • EM
    EMPOWER ME CENTER A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • AJ
    ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -33%
  • WO
    Women of Worth
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

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
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
The Assistance Fund Inc

To help insured people with life-changing diseases overcome the financial barriers preventing them from accessing treatment.

Health
3
Angel Foundation

We offer relief to cancer patients and their loved ones through financial assistance, education, and emotional support.

Health
4
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
5
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
6
Expect Miracles Foundation

Expect miracles foundation rallies the financial services industry and byeond to invest in life-saving cancer research while advancing the financial and emotional health of people impacted by cancer. we are a 501(c)(3) public charity.

Philanthropy
7
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…

Health
8
HealthTree Foundation Inc

HealthTree provides education support and research for blood cancer patients including multiple myeloma leukemias lymphomas and myeloproliferative neoplasms MPNs. More information can be found at https: www.youtube.com watch?v=cgCVNU4HFbg.

Health
9
Authoracare Collective

Authoracare collective empowers people to be active participants in their care journey, enabling them to live on their own terms through personalized support for mind, body, and spirit.

Human Services
10
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
11
The Livestrong Foundation

Since 1997, The Livestrong Foundation has served and supported over 14.2 million people affected by cancer through survivorship programs, publications and collaborative partnerships with community and grassroots organziations to ensure a…

Philanthropy
12
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alive Hospice Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

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 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,390,000 · EducationFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITYWomen of Worth (WOW): $30,000 · OtherWomen of Worth: $30,000 · OtherWomen of Worth Recovery Home: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherRECOVERY-THROUGH CHRIST: $10,000 · OtherHabitat For Humanity of Wilson County TN: $6,000 · Other+1 more: $3,500 · OtherANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMPOWER ME CENTER A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $22,000 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INC: $5,100 · Human ServicesMagnolia Foundation: $4,000 · Human ServicesBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthKIM ALVERSON FOUNDATION: $400 · Health
Education$1,390,000Other$122,000Arts & Culture$100,000Youth Development$75,000Human Services$31,100Health$5,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,390,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWER ME CENTER A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $22,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMagnolia Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKIM ALVERSON FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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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 Guy & Lucile Jones Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guy & Lucile Jones Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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