Texas · Private foundation
Helen Jones Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,356,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 43
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $256M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Helen Jones Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $12M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $11M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $11M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $12M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $9.4M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $10M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $10M | 21% |
| FY2017 | 43 | $9.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubbock Entertainment and Performing Arts Association | $24,586,250 | 7 | 98% |
| Museum of Texas Tech University Association | $5,407,100 | 7 | 55% |
| Ranching Heritage Association | $2,447,994 | 4 | 63% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Lubbock | $2,440,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Lubbock Christian University | $2,141,430 | 6 | 2% |
| Wayland Baptist University | $1,460,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Covenant Health System Foundation | $1,038,500 | 8 | 8% |
| Volunteer Center of Lubbock Inc | $673,300 | 8 | 30% |
| Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Inc | $672,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Science Spectrum Inc | $565,000 | 7 | 9% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($41M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helen Jones Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · South Plains Foundation · Civic Lubbock Inc · HDS Foundation · Garrison Family Foundation · Rea Charitable Trust · C and a McDonald Family Foundation · Kuykendall Foundation
How this is measured
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About Helen Jones Foundation Inc
- How much does Helen Jones Foundation Inc give?
- Helen Jones Foundation Inc reported 34 grants totaling $12,151,231 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Helen Jones Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Education (24%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are Helen Jones Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lubbock Entertainment and Performing Arts Association ($25M), Museum of Texas Tech University Association ($5.4M), Ranching Heritage Association ($2.4M).
- Does Helen Jones Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen Jones Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen Jones Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ch Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of West Texas, Diekemper Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Helen Jones Foundation Inc based?
- Helen Jones Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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