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Mary Bartush Jones Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$780k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY CONSERVANCY$7,500
ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES - MICHIGAN$5,000
HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION$2,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES (RSMCCSEM)$2,500
GIRLS ON THE RUN - CHICAGO$2,000
ST LEO'S SOUP KITCHEN - FOOD PANTRY PROGRAM$497
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $4k → 10%ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL NYC: $1k → 17%RENAISSANCE YOUTH CENTER: $5k → 28%SACRED HEART SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 13%HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 8%LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY CONSERVANCY: $8k → 9%ST PETER PARISH: $7k → 10%ST FRANCES DE SALES PARISH: $5k → 10%BISSELL PET FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%GREENHILLS SCHOOL: $4k → 14%ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 21%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $250 → 14%RENAISSANCE YOUTH CENTER: $5k → 28%HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 8%LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY CONSERVANCY: $8k → 9%KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES - MICHIGAN: $5k → 10%ST FRANCES DE SALES PARISH: $5k → 10%KELSEY MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY - UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $2k → 14%ST LEO'S SOUP KITCHEN - FOOD PANTRY PROGRAM: $497 → 21%GIRLS ON THE RUN - CHICAGO: $2k → 14%RENAISSANCE YOUTH CENTER: $1k → 28%HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2k → 8%HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES (RSMCCSEM): $3k → 8%LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES (RSMCCSEM): $3k → 8%HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 8%LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 9%ST REGIS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $4k → 8%HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 9%ST HUGO OF THE HILLS CHURCH: $5k → 8%LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4k → 9%ST HUGO OF THE HILLS CHURCH: $4k → 8%LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 9%ST HUGO OF THE HILLS CHURCH: $4k → 8%MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 9%LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITES OF L'ABRE CROCHE: $1k → 9%MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $750 → 9%MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%HOLY CHILDHOOD OF JESUS PARISH: $410 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 9 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$104k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+27%

Still filing today

33%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LT
    LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +79%
  • HS
    HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $16k
  • LT
    LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PETER PARISH
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • KO
    KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • SH
    SACRED HEART SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
4
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
5
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
6
Mclaren Port Huron

Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
7
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
12
Mclaren Greater Lansing

Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mclaren Northern Michigan Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,400 · OtherHARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETYLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · OtherLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY CONSERVANCYST HUGO OF THE HILLS PARISH BLOOMFIELD HILLS: $13,000 · OtherST HUGO OF THE HILLS PARISH BLOOMFIELD HILLSHOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH: $12,505 · OtherHOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCHST FRANCES DE SALES PARISH: $10,000 · OtherST FRANCES DE SALES PARISHST PETER PARISH: $7,000 · OtherST PETER PARISHST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,000 · OtherKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES - MICHIGAN: $5,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES (RSMCCSEM): $5,000 · OtherST REGIS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $4,000 · OtherMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $3,750 · Other+9 more: $10,657 · Other+9 moreLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $17,500 · AnimalsLITTLE TRAVE…Renaissance Youth Center: $11,100 · Youth DevelopmentGREENHILLS SCHOOL: $4,000 · EducationBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementBISSELL Pet Foundation: $4,000 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 · Human Services
Other$112,312Animals$17,500Youth Development$11,100Education$8,000Community Improvement$5,000Philanthropy$4,000Human Services$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Renaissance Youth Center ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BISSELL Pet Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREENHILLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN - CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗

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 Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary Bartush Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Bartush Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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The camps
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By state
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