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John 316 Foundation at a glance

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John 316 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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$228kPublic Benefit$86kPhilanthropy$72kHousing & Shelter$66kHealth$35kCivil Rights$34kInternational$26kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
$14,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$675k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JERICHO PROJECT$40,800
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$14,000
NITRO SPORTS ACADEMY$3,600
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEARTBEET LIFESHARING: $500 → 12%THE FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $750 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
NY
IN
PA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$467k · 18 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
15

Total granted

$467k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+27%

Still filing today

72%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
HealthCivil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • JP
    JERICHO PROJECT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $66k · revenue +36%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    7× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +134%
  • PI
    PURPOSEQUEST INTERNATIONAL INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +303%

Funded once

  • HH
    HOPE HAVEN RWANDA CHARTIABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK UMC OUTREACH CMP
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • TM
    THOMAS MOORE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
National Taxpayers Union Foundation

National taxpayers union foundation (ntuf) provides crucial, impactful research and analysis showing americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. with our unique combination of policy expertise, outreach know-how,…

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2
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
Foundation for Women's Cancer

To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.

Health
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
7
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
8
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
9
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
10
Faith in Public Life Inc

Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…

Religion
11
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
12
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Southeastern Legal Foundation 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

24 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. 24 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $210,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYTHE VALOR FUND: $71,000 · OtherTHE VALOR FUND+17 more: $46,975 · Other+17 moreLeadership Institute: $67,500 · Public BenefitLeadership Institut…PURPOSEQUEST INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,500 · Public BenefitPURPOSEQUEST INTERN…TEA PARTY PATRIOTS FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 · Public BenefitTEA PARTY PATRIOTS …+1 more: $1,000 · Public BenefitJERICHO PROJECT: $65,800 · Housing & ShelterJERICHO PROJ…ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $21,750 · Civil RightsCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE: $11,500 · Civil Rights+1 more: $750 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,000 · HealthCANCER CURES 4 KIDS: $8,000 · HealthJordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation: $2,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation: $1,250 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthAnd Then There Were None: $12,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $3,750 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Education
Other$327,975Public Benefit$98,500Housing & Shelter$65,800Civil Rights$34,000Health$25,750Human Services$16,250Education$7,500

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 budgetLeadership Institute: $67,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJERICHO PROJECT: $65,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $21,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPURPOSEQUEST INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetTEA PARTY PATRIOTS FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnd Then There Were None: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE: $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER CURES 4 KIDS: $8,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION TO SALUTE AMERICA'S HEROES FOUNDATION: $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHLAKE WOMEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUKE'S WINGS: $500 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.

John P & Kathryn G Ev…The Sandra & Lawrence…Farrell Family Founda…Donors Trust IncTexas Instruments Fou…Servant FoundationThe Chicago Community…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…
John P & Kathryn G Evans FoundationWA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · 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 John 316 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John 316 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to John 316 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John 316 Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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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