· Private foundation
Jones Family 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $40,000 |
| SEATTLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY | $12,500 |
| SOUND GENERATIONS | $6,500 |
| NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER | $5,000 |
| HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER | $5,000 |
| HOPELINK | $5,000 |
| SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS | $4,000 |
| SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,563 |
| ECOSS | $2,500 |
| LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $2,500 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $2,500 |
| NATUREBRIDGE | $2,500 |
| SEATTLE AQUARIUM | $2,500 |
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, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- IFINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY6× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +17%
- TSTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY7× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +180%
- NMNORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- CCODEORGgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +37%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- WRWORLD RELIEF SEATTLEone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The primary goal is to help children & adults develop a commitment to lifelong learning & environmental and community stewardship through hands-on learning experiences combining science, technology, & the arts at islandwood's 255-acre…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Salish Sea Expenditions. 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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 36 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 SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MARITIME CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SISTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALISH SEA EXPENDITIONS ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds CODEORG ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION OF SOUTH SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds TINY TREES PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Broadway Bound Childrens Theatre ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART WITH HEART ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds FULL LIFE CARE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Artsfund · Discuren Foundation · Kawabe Memorial Fund · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Grousemont Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · Moccasin Lake 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 Jones Family 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.
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.