· Private foundation
John Jordan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $10,006 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN | $1,455 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +45%
- SCSONOMA COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $8k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue -5%
Funded once
- CTCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma Countygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +79%
- NSNORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- HIHOPE IS RISING LAKE COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -61%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide health care for retired k-9 deputies. educate the public in the roll k-9 deputies play in law enforcment
Sonoma county vintners foundation conducts and supports education programs related to the wine industry.
Sonoma county vintners is a non-profit organization committed to promoting the wines and wineries of sonoma county.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.
To provide accessible, quality health care to those who need it, especially the underserved.
Support law enforcement prevent cruelty to animals
We connect people, ideas and resources to benefit the lives of those who live in sonoma county.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
To support the role of Sheriff as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in each county and to speak as a collective statewide voice on matters of public safety.
The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…
The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Wine Country and the most unlike its peers is Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Service in Sonoma County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS RISING LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA ROSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF THE NORTH COAST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Council on Aging Services for Seniors ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG ↗
- Who funds Soi Dog Foundation USA ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF SO CO ↗
- Who funds Maria Carrillo High School Association ↗
- Who funds THE BIRD RESCUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINDSOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT CHAPLAINCY SERVICE IN SONOMA COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma County · Trione Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · Messing Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Wine Country
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 John Jordan Foundation 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.
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.