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Mary Jane Hillard Jones Foundation Inc at a glance

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Mary Jane Hillard Jones Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$27k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$47kInternational$40kAnimals$33kFood & Nutrition$19kYouth Development$16kHuman Services$14kHousing & Shelter$9kEducation$8kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$363k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ YOUTH FOUNDATION$16,000
MT OLIVE AME CHURCH$11,051
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $5k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $2k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $1k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
KY
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 24 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
28

Total granted

$160k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+14%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23
InternationalAnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • CC
    Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue +68%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +98%
  • TF
    The Florida Aquarium Inc
    3× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • LP
    Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +102%
  • HU
    HURTSBORO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CF
    CHILD FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc

Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.

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3
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
4
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
5
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
6
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
7
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
8
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
9
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
10
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
11
Michigan Humane Society

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

Animals
12
Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc

Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tampa Museum of Art Inc. 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

33 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. 33 of the 52 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MT OLIVE AME CHURCH: $22,051 · OtherMT OLIVE AME CHURCHChi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation Inc: $18,500 · OtherChi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation IncPALMA CEIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $14,650 · OtherPALMA CEIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $8,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYWORLD CONCERN: $6,812 · OtherWORLD CONCERNHURTSBORO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5,000 · Other+23 more: $34,380 · Other+23 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $7,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSI…FOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $6,908 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR IN…Matthew 25 Ministries Inc: $3,000 · InternationalMatthew 25 Ministrie…MEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · InternationalMEDICAL BENEVOLENCE …Save The Children Federation Inc: $3,000 · InternationalSave The Children Fe…CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $2,804 · InternationalCHILDFUND INTERNATIO…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalThe Florida Aquarium Inc: $9,500 · AnimalsThe Florida…Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc: $6,000 · AnimalsLowry Park …Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc: $4,500 · AnimalsHumane Soci…+3 more: $1,500 · Animals+3 moreSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyThe Heal Foundation Inc: $1,000 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,500 · ReligionFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $3,500 · Food & NutritionCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK: $2,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $1,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$109,393International$36,712Animals$21,500Human Services$12,500Philanthropy$8,000Religion$7,500Food & Nutrition$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation Inc: $18,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Florida Aquarium Inc: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $6,908 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $2,804 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,275 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heal Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING WATERS FOR THE WORLD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTH DAY NETWORK INC: $560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA FL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT): $500 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.

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.

The Spurlino Foundati…Publix Super Markets …Thomas A & Mary S Jam…Frank E Duckwall Foun…Lightning FoundationVinik Family Foundati…Debartolo Family Foun…Community Foundation …Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Straz Family Foundati…Enterprise Holdings F…
The Spurlino FoundationFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Spurlino Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Thomas A & Mary S James Foundation · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · Lightning Foundation · Vinik Family Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Straz Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Jane Hillard Jones Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Jane Hillard Jones Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Manna Food Bank Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Tampa Museum of Art Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Florida Aquarium Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Mary Jane Hillard Jones Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mary Jane Hillard Jones Foundation Inc 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.

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 52 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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