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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.

$587k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% 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$1.3MYouth Development$857kEducation$501kHealth$345kArts & Culture$279kPhilanthropy$162kAnimals$160kRecreation & Sports$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT ANGEL HEART$30,000
SPRINGHILL SCHOOL$30,000
NORTH MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES$30,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMAMARIN$30,000
SONOMA VALLEY ED FND$30,000
COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$30,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$30,000
GRATEFUL GATHERINGS$30,000
HOME AHEAD$29,250
CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT$28,500
LAFAYETTE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION LPI$27,250
GUARDIAN SCHOLARS$25,000
SALESIAN BOYS GIRLS CLUB$20,000
THE LIVING ROOM$20,000
COTS$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TOUCH OF UNDERSTANDING: $15k → 6%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $20k → 8%GRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $30k → 10%HORSEPLAY: $20k → 17%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $30k → 9%GRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $30k → 10%PARTNERS IN CARE: $30k → 10%HORSEPLAY: $20k → 17%GRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $30k → 10%MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $25k → 10%HORSEPLAY: $17k → 17%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $30k → 9%GRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $30k → 10%MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $25k → 10%COLLEGIATE CROSSINGS: $15k → 9%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $30k → 9%GRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $15k → 10%THE LIVING ROOM: $30k → 9%GRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $30k → 10%MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $25k → 10%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $30k → 9%MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $22k → 10%PARTNERS IN CARE: $20k → 10%NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER: $20k → 8%PARTNERS IN CARE: $20k → 10%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $30k → 9%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $30k → 9%PARTNERS IN CARE: $1k → 10%THE LIVING ROOM: $20k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $30k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $30k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $30k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20k → 9%THE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $30k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%FURNISH HOPE: $10k → 10%FURNISH HOPE: $10k → 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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 42 repeat orgs$415k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
15

Total granted

$4.3M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+57%

Still filing today

62%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureCrime & 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

  • NM
    North Marin Community Services
    9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +199%
  • TL
    THE LIVING ROOM CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +214%
  • THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $209k · revenue +392%

Funded once

  • SV
    SONOMA VALLEY ED FND VALLEY VIBES
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SONOMA
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • RC
    REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -96%
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
Homeward Bound of Marin

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
3
Children's Home of Stockton Inc

CHS guides youth and young adults forward to hope and resiliency.

—
4
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
5
Casa of Solano County

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.

Civil Rights
6
Serra Residential Center Inc

To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities

—
7
Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter
8
Council on Aging Services for Seniors

To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.

—
9
California Clubhouse Dba Aspire House

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…

Health
10
California Parenting Institute

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…

Human Services
11
Center for Domestic Peace

We are Marin's champion in the movement to end domestic violence - working at the intersection of survivors, systems, and community.

Human Services
12
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 69 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COTS: $260,000 · OtherCOTSCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $255,000 · OtherCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside CountiesSupport Our Students: $210,000 · OtherSupport Our StudentsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL SON: $205,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL SONSONOMA VALLEY ED FDN PRESCHOOL: $190,000 · OtherSONOMA VALLEY ED FDN PRESCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $182,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherYWCA: $95,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: $130,000 · Other+33 more: $991,980 · Other+33 moreTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $260,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIVING ROOM CENTERTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $208,500 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNITY PRO…GRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $165,000 · Human ServicesGRATEFUL GATHERINGSMOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $97,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY REL…PARTNERS IN CARE: $71,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN CAREHORSE PLAY INC: $57,000 · Human ServicesHORSE PLAY INC+6 more: $100,000 · Human Services+6 moreNorth Marin Community Services: $270,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLafayette Partners in Education: $107,250 · EducationGUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC: $69,093 · EducationTHE SPRING HILL SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationThe Shield: $80,000 · HealthSide By Side: $64,000 · HealthPregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center: $35,000 · HealthDESTINATION REHAB: $10,000 · HealthHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $140,000 · Arts & CultureDiablo Regional Arts Association: $41,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNOVATO ROTARY ENDOWMENT: $112,500 · Community ImprovementPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,639,480Human Services$958,500Youth Development$370,000Education$206,343Health$189,000Arts & Culture$184,000Community Improvement$142,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Marin Community Services: $270,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $260,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $255,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSupport Our Students: $210,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $208,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetGRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $165,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $140,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: $130,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNOVATO ROTARY ENDOWMENT: $112,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetLafayette Partners in Education: $107,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $97,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe Shield: $80,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetPARTNERS IN CARE: $71,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC: $69,093 over 3y, 76% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY TEEN SERVICES: $65,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetSide By Side: $64,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHORSE PLAY INC: $57,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSHELTER INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Support Network: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDiablo Regional Arts Association: $41,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center: $35,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SPRING HILL SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHomeAhead: $29,250 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC: $24,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFURNISH HOPE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA TOUCH OF UNDERSTANDING: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESTINATION REHAB: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBerkeley Playhouse Inc: $3,000 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.

  • 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 KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Support Network ↗
  • Who funds Diablo Regional Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds Pregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗

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.

The William G Irwin C…Marin Community Found…The Heck FoundationBothin FoundationSonoma County Communi…St Charles Health Sys…Speedway Children's C…Heffernan Group Found…First Interstate Banc…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Roundhouse Founda…McNabb Foundation
The William G Irwin Charity FoundationCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jonas Family Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to Jonas Family Foundation Trust 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 69 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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