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Jack S and Donna P Josey Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jack S and Donna P Josey 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.

$18k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2018 to 2022.

Education$100kHealth$96kArts & Culture$85k
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$303k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY$12,500
JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS: $50k → 17%HOUSTON SYMPHONY: $25k → 16%JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE: $50k → 13%AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS: $6k → 17%HOUSTON GRAND OPERA: $20k → 16%SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE: $25k → 13%FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY: $13k → 17%HOUSTON GRAND OPERA: $20k → 16%SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE: $25k → 13%CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%HOUSTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $3k → 16%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$224k · 4 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$224k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
-14%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthOther
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

  • SB
    SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $100k · revenue +22%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $56k · revenue +48%
  • HS
    Houston Symphony Society
    2× · 2018–2021 · $28k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • AH
    AMERICAN HOSPICE OF PARIS
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -14%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 8 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $100,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTEHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Grand Opera Associati…Houston Symphony Society: $27,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony SocietyJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION…THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $56,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PA…FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $12,500 · InternationalFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INCAMERICAN HOSPICE OF PARIS: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN H…CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Health
Education$100,000Arts & Culture$72,500International$68,500Other$25,000Health$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Jack S and Donna P Josey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack S and Donna P Josey 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 8 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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