A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of JOSEPH E & MARJORIE B JONES FOUNDATION CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k21 grants · $390k
$50k–250k10 grants · $810k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$23M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SPROUT THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCA	$150,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC	$150,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY	$100,000
FRIENDS OF FORT DUPONT ICE ARENA I	$75,000
LEVINE MUSIC INC	$75,000
DOWNTOWN CLUSTER OF CONGREGATIONS	$60,000
ALEXANDRIA SEAPORT FOUNDATION	$50,000
THRIVE DC	$50,000
HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC	$50,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER DC ALEXANDRIA	$50,000
BREAD FOR THE CITY INC	$35,000
BROADFUTURES INC	$35,000
LA COCINA VA	$30,000
BEACON HOUSE COMMUNITY MINISTRY	$25,000
LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES	$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $390k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.6M · 44 repeat orgs$743k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.6M

$523k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+13%

Still filing today

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationHealthEnvironmentOther

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

CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +53%
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LEVINE MUSIC INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $965k · revenue +26%
AS
Alexandria Seaport Foundation
9× · 2017–2025 · $445k · revenue +33%

Funded once

WE
WILMER EYE INSTITUTE AT JOHNS HOPKI
one grant, 2024 · $100k
CA
CAMP ATTAWAY INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue +168% · 39% of their budget
AW
A WIDER CIRCLE INC
one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -58%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…

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Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education

Everyone Home Dc

We support the holistic needs of individuals and families at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Housing is our starting point. Seeing people thrive is our finish line.

Human Services

Dc Bar Pro Bono Center

The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains…

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Rebuilding Together of Washington Dc

Volunteer teams rehabilitate homes for low-income elderly and disabledhomeowners, veterans, and families with children, as well as nonprofitfacilities such as schools, shelters, and community service organizations. all work is performed by…

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Friendship Place

Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…

Housing & Shelter

District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal

Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health

Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement

District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture

Pathways to Housing Dc

Pathways to housing dc prevents and ends homelessness for persons living with serious psychiatric disabilities and other complex health challenges.

Human Services

Maryland New Directions Inc

Maryland new directions' mission is to train and coach people facing career and life transitions to overcome barriers, restore self-belief, and acquire the skills and tools needed to secure employment on a path to a living wage.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everybody Wins Dc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Excel Automotive Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/65

the rest of the field

13%

4,218/33,677

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 82 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/65

Grantees still filing

38/65

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,514,196Arts & Culture$1,500,000Environment$1,435,547Recreation & Sports$665,000Food & Nutrition$480,000Human Services$405,000Employment$350,000

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.

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.

John Edward Fowler Memorial FoundationMD57.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Venable Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts 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 Joseph E & Marjorie B Jones Foundation Corporation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Joseph E & Marjorie B Jones Foundation Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Joseph E & Marjorie B Jones Foundation Corporation 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines