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Jones S Davis Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$166k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
30
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 34
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$2.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Jones S Davis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving25$166k24%
FY202330$151k27%
FY202234$163k41%
FY202122$101k50%
FY202018$61k56%
FY201916$63k44%
FY201813$65k23%
FY201714$60kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$462kReligion$94kHousing & Shelter$66kPhilanthropy$41kHealth$24kRecreation & Sports$16kScience & Tech$12kHuman Services$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OH
CA
CO
MO
AZ
TN
NC
OK
LA
MS
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge$66,00081%
Southern Univerty System$26,51040%
University of Southern Mississippi$10,0002n/a
Washington Street Hope Center Inc$4,80020%
Holmes Community Colleg$3,2501n/a
Lsu Foundation$3,00010%
JK Reed Community Resource Center Inc$2,5001n/a
First Descents$2,50010%
Braas Foundation$2,0001n/a
Oklahoma Christian University$2,00010%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Jones S Davis Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge$66,00081%
Southern Univerty System$26,51040%
University of Southern Mississippi$10,0002n/a
Washington Street Hope Center Inc$4,80020%
Holmes Community Colleg$3,2501n/a
Lsu Foundation$3,00010%
JK Reed Community Resource Center Inc$2,5001n/a
First Descents$2,50010%
Braas Foundation$2,0001n/a
Oklahoma Christian University$2,00010%
Grand Canyon University$1,00010%
Louisiana Christian University$1,00010%
St Louis University$1,00010%

Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($703k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jones S Davis Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHope Ministries of Baton Rouge: $66,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSouthern Univerty System: $26,510 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Street Hope Center Inc: $4,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLsu Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Descents: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Christian University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Christian University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield OfLA13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Cross & Blue Shield Of · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Jones S Davis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jones S Davis 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.

About Jones S Davis Foundation

How much does Jones S Davis Foundation give?
Jones S Davis Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $165,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jones S Davis Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Religion (11%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
Who are Jones S Davis Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge ($66k), Southern Univerty System ($27k), University of Southern Mississippi ($10k).
Does Jones S Davis Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jones S Davis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jones S Davis Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Cross & Blue Shield Of, Shell USA Company Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Jones S Davis Foundation based?
Jones S Davis Foundation is based in LA.

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 73 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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