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Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc

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.

$329k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$1.2MReligion$386kHealth$279kArts & Culture$246kInternational$120kYouth Development$112kPublic Benefit$66kHousing & Shelter$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MTCS$60,800
MTSU Foundation$53,500
Read to Succeed$36,500
THE DISCOVERY CENTER AT MURFREE SPR$35,000
CENTER FOR THE ARTS$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN$20,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB$18,000
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF RUTHERFORD$15,000
MURFREESBORO CITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$15,000
Rutherford Co Board of Ed$15,000
ENDURE ATHLETICS FOUNDATION$13,500
BLOOMSBURY FARM$12,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
MINDFUL CARE$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $16k → 9%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%BARNABAS VISION: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 21 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$2.5M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+34%

Still filing today

52%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $166k · revenue +57%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +126%
  • GM
    GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES
    4× · 2017–2023 · $61k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • LR
    LEADERSHIP RUTHERFORD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +160% · 37% of their budget
  • SO
    SMYRNA OUTDOOR ADVENTURE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • FA
    FEED AMERICA FIRST
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Journey Home Inc

The journey home is a christian ministry whose primary focus is to serve the homeless and disadvantaged of rutherford county, tn. providing practical resources and relationships that encourage faith, economic stability, wholeness, and…

2
Rahab House

Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…

Human Services
3
East Tennessee Christian Home Inc

The Home was organized to provide for the health, welfare and benefit of children whose parents or guardians are unable to care for them. The Home offers residential care and onsite academic

Human Services
4
Ruths House

Provide a community owned and operated shelter for a safe haven from domestic violence for women and their children in beaufort county, nc. provide counseling and guidance to allow these women to make decisions about their future.

Crime & Legal
5
Hope House of Tennessee Inc

By creating a safe and structured two year residential program the Hope House of Tennessee will aim to equip and empower personal and educational growth economic self-sufficiency and a deeper understanding of Christs unconditional love.

Housing & Shelter
6
The Rutherford Institute

The rutherford institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization based in charlottesville, va., is deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every american and the integral human rights of all people through its…

7
House of Hope of Nc Inc

Home, Counseling & Support for Hurting Teens

Education
8
The Potters House

The Potters House provides a Christ-centered education to children of all ethnic heritages and income levels, equipping them to serve God and society to their fullest potential.

Education
9
Crowleys Ridge Academy

Christian education

10
Youth Town of Tennessee Inc

Youth alcohol and drug rehabilitation behavioral rehabilitation.

Human Services
11
Baton Rouge Christian Education Foundation Inc

The dunham school seeks to provide students with the opportunity for college preparatory education set in a framework of christian instruction and example. to this end, the school offers boys and girls rigorous academic instruction…

12
Greenville Christian School Inc

Provide elementary and secondary private education for families in the Greenville Texas area.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read to Succeed and the most unlike its peers is Sweet Addiction. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MURFREESBORO CITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $335,000 · OtherMURFREESBORO CITY SCHOOL FOUNDATIONMTCS — $324,728 · OtherMTCSTHE DISCOVERY CENTER AT MURFREE SPR — $259,500 · OtherTHE DISCOVERY CENTER AT MURFREE SPRRutherford Co Board of Ed — $215,000 · OtherRutherford Co Board of EdBOYS GIRLS CLUB — $111,500 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient — $61,750 · Other+13 more — $215,000 · Other+13 moreMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $292,900 · EducationMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIV…READ TO SUCCEED — $266,000 · EducationREAD TO SUCCEEDPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $45,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEM…+1 more — $20,000 · EducationCENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $165,500 · Arts & CultureETHOS YOUTH ENSEMBLES — $10,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN — $120,000 · InternationalGREENHOUSE MINISTRIES — $61,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY PLACE — $16,385 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesENDURE ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC — $38,500 · PhilanthropyCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC — $15,700 · HealthSPECIAL KIDS INC — $1,500 · HealthStepping Stones Safe Haven Inc — $100 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,522,478Education$623,900Arts & Culture$175,500International$120,000Human Services$78,385Philanthropy$38,500Health$17,200Crime & Legal$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $292,900 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetREAD TO SUCCEED — $266,000 over 9y, 19% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $165,500 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN — $120,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetGREENHOUSE MINISTRIES — $61,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetENDURE ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC — $38,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP RUTHERFORD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetTHE WEBB SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOSSIBILITY PLACE — $16,385 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC — $15,700 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetETHOS YOUTH ENSEMBLES — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSweet Addiction — $8,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSPECIAL KIDS INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNABAS VISION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStepping Stones Safe Haven Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds READ TO SUCCEED
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE TN
  • Who funds GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
  • Who funds ENDURE ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP RUTHERFORD INC
  • Who funds THE WEBB SCHOOL
  • Who funds POSSIBILITY PLACE
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC
  • Who funds ETHOS YOUTH ENSEMBLES
  • Who funds Sweet Addiction
  • Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC
  • Who funds THE BARNABAS VISION INC
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity
  • Who funds Stepping Stones Safe Haven 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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN27.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc · Adams Family Foundation I · Charity Circle of Murfreesboro · Christy-Houston Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Tennessee · Nashville Predators Foundation · Adams Family Foundation II · Burgess Family Charitable · Laroche Family Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Twelve Stone Health Partners Foundation a Reeves Company

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 Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your 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
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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