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John Jordan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$131kPhilanthropy$73kEmployment$50kCommunity Improvement$35kCrime & Legal$21kAnimals$18kEducation$16kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,006
Median grant
2
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION$10,006
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN$1,455
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE: $30k → 9%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $8k → 9%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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 3 repeat orgs$331k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
28

Total granted

$58k
$331k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+26%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +45%
  • SC
    SONOMA COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $8k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue -5%

Funded once

  • CT
    Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma Countygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +79%
  • NS
    NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • HI
    HOPE IS RISING LAKE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -61%
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
Sonoma County Deputy Sheriffs K-9 Association

To provide health care for retired k-9 deputies. educate the public in the roll k-9 deputies play in law enforcment

Crime & Legal
2
Sonoma County Vintners Foundation

Sonoma county vintners foundation conducts and supports education programs related to the wine industry.

Community Improvement
3
Sonoma County Vintners

Sonoma county vintners is a non-profit organization committed to promoting the wines and wineries of sonoma county.

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4
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
5
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights
6
Sonoma Valley Community Health Center

To provide accessible, quality health care to those who need it, especially the underserved.

Unclassified
7
Sonoma County Change Program

Support law enforcement prevent cruelty to animals

Animals
8
Sonoma County Community Foundation

We connect people, ideas and resources to benefit the lives of those who live in sonoma county.

Philanthropy
9
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey 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…

Animals
10
California State Sheriffs Association

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Solano Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
12
Sunnyvale Community Services

The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Wine Country; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 31 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherNORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDAT…SANTA ROSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $30,000 · OtherSANTA ROSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCECouncil on Aging Services for Seniors: $15,000 · OtherCouncil on Aging Services for SeniorsFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER SONOMA COUNTY: $11,000 · OtherFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER SONOMA COUNTYSONOMA COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $8,000 · OtherSONOMA COUNTY FARM BUREAU FOUNDATIONCLAYTON EARLY LEARNING: $5,500 · OtherHISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF SO CO: $5,000 · OtherNORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY FIRE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherNORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY FIRE FOUNDATION+10 more: $9,603 · Other+10 moreMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $48,229 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FO…UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE WINE …Soi Dog Foundation USA: $5,000 · PhilanthropySoi Dog Foundation USA+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County: $50,095 · EducationCareer Technica…Maria Carrillo High School Association: $4,000 · EducationMaria Carrillo …HOPE IS RISING LAKE COUNTY INC: $50,000 · HealthHOPE IS RISING…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF THE NORTH COAST INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPEDIATRIC …SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $7,500 · Human ServicesSCOPA HAS …HUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE BIRD RESCUE CENTER: $2,500 · AnimalsLEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$144,103Philanthropy$80,729Education$54,095Health$51,000Human Services$37,500Animals$12,500Crime & Legal$10,000

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 budgetCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County: $50,095 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHOPE IS RISING LAKE COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $48,229 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA ROSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF THE NORTH COAST INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCouncil on Aging Services for Seniors: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY FIRE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF SO CO: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE BIRD RESCUE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWINDSOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY FARM BUREAU: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN: $2,205 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MATTERS: $1,103 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAW ENFORCEMENT CHAPLAINCY SERVICE IN SONOMA COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Sonoma County Communi…McNabb FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Peter E Haas Jr Famil…Sonoma County Vintner…East Bay Community Fo…Marin Community Found…Healthcare Foundation…Trione FoundationRedwood Credit Union …Messing Family Charit…United Way of the Win…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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