· Private foundation
Louis and Donna Jones Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SENIOR COASTSIDERS | $22,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE COASTSIDE | $20,000 |
| COASTSIDE HOPE | $20,000 |
| FULLER YOUTH INSTITUTE | $17,500 |
| COASTSIDE CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS | $15,500 |
| FRONT PORCH | $10,000 |
| HARAMBEE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
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, $387k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MHMARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +27%
- SCSENIOR COASTSIDERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +165%
- HCHARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER INC6× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- DODOOR OF HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +369%
- LALOS ANGELES OTHOPEDIC HOSIPTALone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
Colettes childrens home provides housing and supportive services to homeless women and children with nowhere to turn. we work to remove the barriers that cause displacement and provide the means for transition from homelessness to stable…
North Beach Citizens meets the needs of our unhoused and extremely low-income neighbors with trust, integrity, and compassion. Through personalized, innovative programs, we help individuals facing poverty reclaim dignity, stability, and a…
We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…
To build capacity and community engagement to better serve the most vulnerable population suffering poverty and the homeless crisis.
The mission of children's home society of california is to provide children, families, and communities with supportive services to thrive.
To provide quality child care and state pre-school programs to children of low-income families in long beach in a caring, loving and learning environment.
Neighborhood housing services of los angeles county (nhs) serves as a catalyst for local residents, business and government representatives to work together to build stronger neighborhoods, improve the quality of life for families of…
The mission of the housing resource center (hrc) of monterey county is to provide a continuum of housing resources for homeless prevention and affordable housing opportunities. hrc fosters community stability, stronger communities, and…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastside Hope and the most unlike its peers is Las Candelas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 21 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 MARANATHA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COASTSIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COASTSIDE ↗
- Who funds HARAMBEE CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COASTSIDE HOPE ↗
- Who funds Coastside Childrens Programs ↗
- Who funds GREENLINE HOUSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Front Porch Communities and Services ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HRS TRUE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Las Candelas Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Shupper Family Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Louis and Donna Jones Family 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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