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Jones Family Fund at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
91
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$828kArts & Culture$626kCommunity Improvement$572kEducation$489kReligion$420kCrime & Legal$344kHealth$306kFood & Nutrition$266kOther$0
02FY2024 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k66 grants · $155k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $308k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$3,744
Median grant
8
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SLOSS FURNACES FOUNDATION$150,000
UNITED WAY$100,000
UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
WOODLAWN FOUNDATION$25,000
KNOWLEDGE RHYTHM & UNDERSTANDING INC$25,000
RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY$18,800
Individual grant recipient$16,700
TEACH FOR AMERICA$15,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH$15,000
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,500
ALABAMA BALLET$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE MARKET$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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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

NY
MA
CA
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 116 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

116 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
45

Total granted

$4.4M
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+33%

Still filing today

51%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $765k · revenue +74%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $324k · revenue +79%
  • TS
    THE SLOSS FURNACES FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • ED
    EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF SW FLORIDA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • CO
    CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +107%
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
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

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2
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
3
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
4
A Best Practices Center

The alabama best practices center helps teachers and administrators develop the competence, commitment and courage to do whatever it takes to improve student learning.

Education
5
The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

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6
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
7
Birmingham Corps

Birmingham corps' mission is to drive fair workforce opportunities and accelerate social change by recruiting, training, and retaining people in birmingham.

Employment
8
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

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9
Business Council of Alabama

To improve industry and labor conditions for the state of alabama through the provision of educational programs for members and advocacy efforts on the behalf of members.

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10
Breakthrough Birmingham

Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.

Education
11
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
12
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Birmingham Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Lanier Family Foundation. 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

81 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. 81 of the 171 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
56/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $140,000 · OtherST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $124,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $87,500 · OtherMOUNTAIN BROOK BAPTIST CHURCH: $87,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $77,500 · Other+117 more: $1,288,943 · Other+117 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $765,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRA…UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ASHEVI…+4 more: $21,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $324,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ALA…Teach for America Inc: $130,000 · EducationTeach for America…KNOWLEDGE RHYTHM & UNDERSTANDING INC: $85,000 · EducationKNOWLEDGE RHYTHM …PRESCHOOL PARTNERS: $80,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL PARTNER…Birmingham Promise Inc: $30,000 · Education+14 more: $98,300 · Education+14 moreWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $562,500 · Community ImprovementWOODLAWN UNIT…THE SLOSS FURNACES FOUNDATION INC: $214,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bascom Corporation: $46,250 · Arts & CultureTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $18,800 · Arts & CultureINTOTO CREATIVE ARTS FORUM: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $32,900 · Arts & CultureLAKESHORE FOUNDATION: $99,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $65,000 · HealthTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $15,000 · Health+3 more: $2,600 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE MARKET INC: $80,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Kitchens of Birmingham: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,895,643Philanthropy$836,000Education$747,500Community Improvement$562,500Arts & Culture$366,950Health$207,100Food & Nutrition$105,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $765,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $562,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $324,200 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetTHE SLOSS FURNACES FOUNDATION INC: $214,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $130,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION: $99,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKNOWLEDGE RHYTHM & UNDERSTANDING INC: $85,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MARKET INC: $80,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetPRESCHOOL PARTNERS: $80,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $65,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Bascom Corporation: $46,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBROTHER BRYAN MISSION: $45,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetOAK HILL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $43,475 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHighlands Biological Foundation Inc: $38,650 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE WELLHOUSE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBirmingham Promise Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLINS PROMISE COALITION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Kitchens of Birmingham: $25,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL: $23,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMomentum Alumnae Program Inc: $20,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $18,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUVALDE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $16,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINTOTO CREATIVE ARTS FORUM: $15,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALABAMA ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPerforming Arts Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA BIRMINGHAM INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHBOUND FOOD FESTIVAL: $7,600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDavidson College: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP ALABAMA INC: $6,075 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDESERT ISLAND SUPPLY CO: $6,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER ALABAMA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJONES VALLEY URBAN FARM: $5,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLANDS-CASHIERS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $5,100 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCRISIS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetA G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SLOSS FURNACES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KNOWLEDGE RHYTHM & UNDERSTANDING INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MARKET INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
  • Who funds BROTHER BRYAN MISSION ↗
  • Who funds OAK HILL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Birmingham Promise Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLINS PROMISE COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗

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 Community Foundat…Protective Life Found…The Daniel Foundation…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Alabama Power Foundat…Robert R Meyer Founda…Mike and Gillian Good…Altecstyslinger Found…Dunn-French FoundationThe Maynard Nexsen Fo…Hill Crest Foundation…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL74.8× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 171 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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