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Jones-Smith 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 $10k19 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFEHOUSE | $45,520 |
| WASHINGTON ALASKAN MALAMUTE ADOPTION LEAGUE | $5,280 |
| SIERRA REPERTORY THEATRE | $5,038 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,240 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON | $4,000 |
| THE ARC SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON | $4,000 |
| NORTH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| GALES CREEK CAMP FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH DIABETES | $4,000 |
| CASA DE ANGELES FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| RIDE AWAY CENTER | $3,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,500 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL TRAVELING COMPANIONS | $2,500 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $1,700 |
| RUDIGER FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- LILIFEHOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $404k · revenue +172%
- NCNorth County Community Food Bank9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +7%
- SRSIERRA REPERTORY THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA #512one grant, 2021 · $5k
- AFARRILLAGA FAMILY SPORTS CENTERone grant, 2019 · $2k
- TRTUOLUME RIVER PRESERVATION TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Caring for homeless animals, and finding homes for them through pet adoptions.
To rescue, rehabilitate and rehome abandoned labrador retrievers, golden retrieversand other retriever breeds. our rescue team saves these dogs from shelters as well as assisting people that need to rehome their dogs.
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Rescuing dogs and puppies from untenable conditions in countries of the Pacific Rim and owner surrender dogs here at home, transitioning them to healthy, loving and preapproved adoptive homes in North America, elevating them from throwaway…
Rescue and rehabilitate unwanted labrador retrievers and place them in loving homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vancouver Humane Society and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Casa de Angeles Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 29 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 LIFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds North County Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SIERRA REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ALASKAN MALAMUTE ADOPTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds RIDE AWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Casa de Angeles Foundation ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Environmental Traveling Companions ↗
- Who funds GALES CREEK CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds RUDIGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANGEL ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds MARIN ATHLETIC 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: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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-Smith 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.
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