· Public charity
Jones Day Foundation
In furtherance of the purposes set forth in our articles of incorporation, we engage in grant-making around the world, including the communities in which we live and work.
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.
The 36 grants below total $6,980,322 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,185,437 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,205,115 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| HOPE FOR A HEALTHIER HUMANITY FDN INC | $665,050 |
| ERADICATE HATE GLOBAL SUMMIT | $500,000 |
| HOSPICE OF WESTERN RESERVE FOUNDATION | $333,333 |
| HADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORG OF AMER | $300,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NY | $250,000 |
| THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM INC | $250,000 |
| MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE | $250,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION | $240,000 |
| LAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS INC | $220,000 |
| AMERICAN BAR ASSOC FUND FOR JUSTICE & EDUCATION | $215,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| THRIVE | $200,000 |
| ATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT | $200,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $2.2M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SEE PART V
Stated purpose: SEE PART V
Stated purpose: SEE PART V
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M 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
- HFHOPE FOR A HEALTHIER HUMANITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +111%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
- TRTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC4× · 2020–2024 · $700k · revenue +263%
Funded once
- NANUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue -74% · 62% of their budget
- TATHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +68%
- NYNEW YORK CATHOLIC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
The mission of the american health law association is to deliver authoritative educational content and serve as a professional home for all who engage with health law.
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc and the most unlike its peers is Swades Foundation Usa 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 85 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 THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR A HEALTHIER HUMANITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS TOGETHER FOR HAITIANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASLAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds SWADES FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds ERADICATE HATE GLOBAL SUMMIT ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF HAITI ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds PILNET ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUST THE BEGINNING - A PIPELINE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
- Who funds HEAR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE ↗
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 Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · The Dla Piper Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc
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 Jones Day 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Lawyers Without Borders Inc — 69% 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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