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Jonas Family Foundation Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| GRATEFUL GATHERINGS | $30,000 |
| COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $30,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $30,000 |
| SPRINGHILL SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMAMARIN | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $30,000 |
| SONOMA VALLEY ED FND | $30,000 |
| HOME AHEAD | $29,250 |
| CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT | $28,500 |
| LAFAYETTE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION LPI | $27,250 |
| GUARDIAN SCHOLARS | $25,000 |
| NOVATO ROTARY ENDOWMENT | $20,000 |
| BLOODHOUND MAN TRACKERS | $20,000 |
| CHILD PARENTING INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $920k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
42 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- NMNorth Marin Community Services9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +199%
- TLTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +214%
THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $209k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- SVSONOMA VALLEY ED FND VALLEY VIBESone grant, 2019 · $30k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SONOMAone grant, 2017 · $25k
- RCREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -95%
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.
Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…
Address the homeless crisis in California.
CHS guides youth and young adults forward to hope and resiliency.
The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.
Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities
Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.
To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.
Work, education and programs for members whose lives have been disrupted by mental illness with a daytime place to stay and programs to participate in social activities, engage in meaningful work, enjoy healthy meals, and prepare for…
California parenting institute (cpi dba child parent institute) is a family resource center, serving families throughout sonoma county since 1978. our mission is to end child abuse and strengthen the health of children, parents, and…
We are Marin's champion in the movement to end domestic violence - working at the intersection of survivors, systems, and community.
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bloodhound Man-Trackers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 69 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 North Marin Community Services ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ROOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds Support Our Students ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GRATEFUL GATHERINGS ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds NOVATO ROTARY ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds Lafayette Partners in Education ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC ↗
- Who funds The Shield ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VALLEY TEEN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Side By Side ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN ↗
- Who funds HORSE PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Support Network ↗
- Who funds FAMILY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Diablo Regional Arts Association ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING HILL SCHOOL ↗
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: The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Heck Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · St Charles Health System Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · Heffernan Group Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Roundhouse Foundation · McNabb Foundation
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 Jonas Family Foundation Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery — 60% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc — 16% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
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.
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