· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE VANCOUVER SYMPHONY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +58% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jones-Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jones-Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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