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John Allen Jones Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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John Allen Jones Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$148k
Granted FY2020
23
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

International$106kPhilanthropy$57kEducation$37kArts & Culture$26kEnvironment$22kHealth$5kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2020 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k19 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$25,000
CAMFED USA$22,500
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY$10,000
ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,500
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$7,500
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTL$6,000
COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE$5,000
RAINFOREST FOUNDATION$5,000
CLEAN ENERGY INNOVATION PROGRAM$5,000
CAMP MANITOWISH$5,000
HISPANOLA HEALTH PARTNERS$4,500
FONKOZE$4,500
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 (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GIO'S GARDEN: $500 → 10%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

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
AZ
SC
DC
AL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$229k · 13 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
4

Total granted

$229k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+13%

Still filing today

69%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
InternationalEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CU
    CAMFED USA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $37k · revenue +707%
  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $33k · revenue +112%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • GN
    GOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MED CLINIC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • G
    GNFMC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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2
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
3
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
9
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
10
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
11
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
12
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camfed Usa Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hispanola Health Partners. 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

21 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. 21 of the 30 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JA JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION UK: $40,000 · OtherJA JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION UKIndividual grant recipient: $15,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $14,800 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INCFONKOZE: $13,500 · OtherFONKOZECAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $5,000 · OtherCLEAN ENERGY INNOVATION PROGRAM: $5,000 · OtherCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE: $5,000 · OtherMCDS ANNUAL FUND: $4,000 · Other+4 more: $6,000 · Other+4 moreCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $36,500 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATIONInternational Rescue Committee INC: $23,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $17,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONALHISPANOLA HEALTH PARTNERS: $12,500 · InternationalHISPANOLA HEALTH PARTNERSMercy Corps: $9,500 · InternationalMercy CorpsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,250 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $33,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO CO…MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $2,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $5,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $2,250 · EnvironmentTHE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTREVOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,000 · Civil RightsGIO'S GARDEN INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$108,800International$106,250Education$38,000Environment$12,250Arts & Culture$11,000Civil Rights$7,000Human Services$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 budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $36,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $14,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANOLA HEALTH PARTNERS: $12,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMercy Corps: $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBread and Roses Community Fund: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDoor County YMCA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIO'S GARDEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 30 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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