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Jones Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Jones Family Charitable Foundation

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.

$178k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$151k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$643kHuman Services$12kRecreation & Sports$11kHealth$10kReligion$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kFood & Nutrition$2kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $151k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$801k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$150,500
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
HANK POORE FOUNDATION$1,000
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES MARYLAND$261
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE$261
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION NEW UNIFORM: $2k → 14%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $1k → 14%OPERATION NEW UNIFORM: $2k → 14%GOOD COUNSEL: $500 → 14%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
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
MD
SC
AL
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$475k · 7 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$475k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-12%

Still filing today

71%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +13%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +31%
  • ON
    OPERATION NEW UNIFORM INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • AS
    ADAPTED SPORTS UNLIMITED
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue 0% · 80% of their budget
  • TF
    TB12 FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -99%
  • CB
    CHASE BJORK FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -11%
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Charleston Southern University

Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…

Education
3
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Texas Wesleyan University

Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…

Education
8
Anderson University

The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…

Education
9
Biola University Inc

Biola university is a private christian university located in southern california. for over 116 years, biola has stood out as an institution grounded on biblically centered education, intentional spiritual development, and career…

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
University of Miami
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12
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is TB12 Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is White Horse Theater Company. 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

15 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. 15 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $411,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA+13 more: $24,559 · Other+13 moreTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $174,281 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATIONTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION I…+2 more: $2,098 · EducationTB12 FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 · HealthCHASE BJORK FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthHANK POORE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $261 · HealthADAPTED SPORTS UNLIMITED: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsOPERATION NEW UNIFORM INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesGOOD COUNSEL INC: $1,525 · Human ServicesGENERATION LIFE: $500 · Youth Development
Other$435,559Education$231,379Health$12,511Recreation & Sports$5,500Human Services$4,525Youth Development$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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION: $174,281 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADAPTED SPORTS UNLIMITED: $5,500 over 1y, 80% of budgetTB12 FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHASE BJORK FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOPERATION NEW UNIFORM INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHANK POORE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC: $1,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC LOWCOUNTRY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,098 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Horse Theater Company: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGENERATION LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $261 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Operation New Uniform Inc: 100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1rely 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.

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 27 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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