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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.

$9.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$7.3MPhilanthropy$6.5MEducation$4.6MArts & Culture$4.4MCrime & Legal$3.9MHealth$2.5MCivil Rights$2.1MReligion$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $6,980,322, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,185,437 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,205,115 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $3.3M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.5M
$150,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE$250,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NY$250,000
THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM INC$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE OF WESTERN RESERVE FOUNDATION: $333k → 17%NATL CENTER FOR CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $400k → 13%CATHOLIC CHAR OF THE ARCH OF WASH DC: $241k → 14%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

East Asia and the Pacific$1.2M · 53% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$993k · 45% · 9 grants

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

South America$45k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 24 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
39

Total granted

$12M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+3%

Still filing today

96%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M 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
Crime & LegalEducationArts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HF
    HOPE FOR A HEALTHIER HUMANITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +53%
  • TM
    The Musical Arts Association
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
  • TR
    THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $700k · revenue +263%

Funded once

  • NA
    NUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue -74% · 62% of their budget
  • LL
    LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +127%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CATHOLIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
3
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

—
4
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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5
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
6
International Federation of Accountants

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…

Education
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
8
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

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…

Community Improvement
9
American Health Law Association

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.

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10
Ohio State Bar Association

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.

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11
Council for Court Excellence

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.

—
12
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 85 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
38/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $5,200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEVELAND FOUN…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $300,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION …+1 more: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK CATHOLIC FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · OtherNEW YORK CATHOLIC FOUNDATION INCHANDS TOGETHER FOR HAITIANS INC: $679,000 · OtherHANDS TOGETHER FOR HAITIANS INCFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS: $610,000 · OtherTHE ASLAN PROJECT INC: $600,000 · OtherATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN: $400,000 · OtherJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONERADICATE HATE GLOBAL SUMMIT: $500,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATIONSWADES FOUNDATION USA INC: $500,000 · Other+27 more: $4,253,499 · Other+27 moreHOPE FOR A HEALTHIER HUMANITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,248,665 · InternationalHOPE FOR A HEA…United States Association for UNHCR: $500,000 · InternationalUnited States …FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF HAITI: $350,700 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $350,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEN…+2 more: $162,000 · InternationalNUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 · EducationNUS AMERICA FO…THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $500,000 · EducationTHE CHILDRENS …CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $435,000 · EducationCLEVELAND STAT…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC: $300,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN…JUST THE BEGINNING - A PIPELINE ORGANIZATION: $300,000 · EducationJUST THE BEGIN…Fordham University: $300,000 · EducationFordham Univer…THE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $250,000 · EducationTHE CITY CLUB …HEAR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationHEAR SCHOLARSH…+4 more: $222,000 · EducationThe Musical Arts Association: $1,470,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Ar…THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $700,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AND R…HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $565,020 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMO…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $425,000 · Arts & CultureThe United Sta…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNI…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $300,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSE…THE JUDGE FRANK M JOHNSON JR INSTITUTE: $195,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $150,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BALLET INC: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $100,000 · Arts & CultureLAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $1,020,000 · Crime & LegalLAWYERS W…PILNET: $325,000 · Crime & LegalPILNETMOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE: $250,000 · Crime & LegalMOMENTUM …TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $250,000 · Crime & LegalTEXAS RIO…American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $215,000 · Crime & LegalAmerican …WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT: $200,000 · Crime & LegalWORLD JUS…EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $180,500 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUS…THE NITA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Crime & LegalNIJC NFP: $100,000 · Crime & LegalAMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Crime & LegalThe Network Group Inc: $100,000 · Crime & LegalCenter for Domestic Peace Inc: $100,000 · Crime & LegalLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsCATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD INC: $240,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$5,600,000Other$11,442,499International$4,611,365Education$4,557,000Arts & Culture$4,405,020Crime & Legal$2,940,500Civil Rights$1,540,000

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 budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $5,200,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetHOPE FOR A HEALTHIER HUMANITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,248,665 over 5y, 15% of budgetNUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $1,470,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $1,020,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $700,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ASLAN PROJECT INC: $600,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $565,020 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSWADES FOUNDATION USA INC: $500,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetERADICATE HATE GLOBAL SUMMIT: $500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $435,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $425,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetATLANTA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOUNDATION IN: $400,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF HAITI: $350,700 over 4y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $350,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $333,333 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPILNET: $325,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetPROMEDICA FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC: $300,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetJUST THE BEGINNING - A PIPELINE ORGANIZATION: $300,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $300,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $300,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFordham University: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHEAR SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMOMENTUM ADVISORY COLLECTIVE: $250,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NORTHEAST OHIO HISPANIC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $241,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD INC: $240,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $215,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD JUSTICE PROJECT: $200,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHRIVE MINISTRY: $200,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JUDGE FRANK M JOHNSON JR INSTITUTE: $195,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $180,500 over 5y, 0.2% 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.

The Ayco Charitable F…The Sidley Austin Fou…The Kelvin & Eleanor …Perkins Coie Foundati…The George Gund Found…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Westfield Insuran…The Dla Piper Foundat…John P Murphy Foundat…The Wilson Sonsini Go…The Lozick Family Fou…Burton D Morgan Found…
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY18.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Lawyers Without Borders Inc: 69% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 Jones Day Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jones Day Foundation 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 85 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 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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