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Mary Bartush Jones 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.

$37k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
62%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
4 to 13
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$780k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Mary Bartush Jones Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2025still arriving10$37k40%
FY202413$46k62%
FY20237$13k57%
FY20224$18k0%
FY202112$48kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$54kAnimals$22kArts & Culture$18kHuman Services$17kEnvironment$15kYouth Development$13kEducation$13kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Little Traverse Bay Humane Society$17,50050%
St Hugo of the Hills Parish Bloomfield Hills$13,0003n/a
Renaissance Youth Center$11,10030%
Knights of Columbus Charities Inc$5,00010%
BISSELL Pet Foundation$4,00010%
Greenhills School$4,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$4,00010%
Bryn Mawr College$4,00010%
McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation$3,75030%
Girls on the Run - Chicago Inc$2,0001n/a
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All grantees of Mary Bartush Jones Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Little Traverse Bay Humane Society$17,50050%
St Hugo of the Hills Parish Bloomfield Hills$13,0003n/a
Renaissance Youth Center$11,10030%
Knights of Columbus Charities Inc$5,00010%
BISSELL Pet Foundation$4,00010%
Greenhills School$4,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$4,00010%
Bryn Mawr College$4,00010%
McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation$3,75030%
Girls on the Run - Chicago Inc$2,0001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$25010%

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLittle Traverse Bay Humane Society: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRenaissance Youth Center: $11,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKnights of Columbus Charities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBISSELL Pet Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreenhills School: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBryn Mawr College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcLaren Northern Michigan Foundation: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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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About Mary Bartush Jones Foundation

How much does Mary Bartush Jones Foundation give?
Mary Bartush Jones Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $37,497 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Mary Bartush Jones Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Animals (13%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Mary Bartush Jones Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Little Traverse Bay Humane Society ($18k), St Hugo of the Hills Parish Bloomfield Hills ($13k), Renaissance Youth Center ($11k).
Does Mary Bartush Jones Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Bartush Jones Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Bartush Jones Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Mary Bartush Jones Foundation based?
Mary Bartush Jones Foundation is based in MI.

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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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