Alabama · Private foundation
Jones Family Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $763k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2024
- 84
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,744
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 84
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Jones Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 91 | $763k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 84 | $496k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 83 | $825k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $522k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 81 | $906k | 51% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $394k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $377k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 52 | $428k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $765,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Woodlawn United Inc | $562,500 | 6 | 4% |
| University of Alabama Law School Foundation | $324,200 | 3 | 9% |
| The Sloss Furnaces Foundation Inc | $214,000 | 8 | 16% |
| Teach for America Inc | $130,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lakeshore Foundation | $99,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Knowledge Rhythm & Understanding Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 32% |
| Friends of the Market Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 18% |
| Preschool Partners | $80,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Children's Harbor Inc | $65,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jones Family Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation
How this is measured
About Jones Family Fund
- How much does Jones Family Fund give?
- Jones Family Fund reported 91 grants totaling $762,944 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 84 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Jones Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (18%), Arts & Culture (13%), Community Improvement (12%).
- Who are Jones Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of Central Alabama Inc ($765k), Woodlawn United Inc ($563k), University of Alabama Law School Foundation ($324k).
- Does Jones Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jones Family Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jones Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Protective Life Foundation, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
- Where is Jones Family Fund based?
- Jones Family Fund is based in AL.
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