· Private foundation
R David and Sherri M Jones 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 |
|---|---|
| THE SAVING HOPE FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| IOG | $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 (FY19–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 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
- FHFREEDOM HOUSE3× · 2019–2021 · $13k · revenue +60%
- SCSECOND CHANCE FARM3× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +12%
- AWA WISH WITH WINGS INC3× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +23%
- SOSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +28%
- UGUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant Countygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +52%
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 witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
To provide services to children, youth, and families along with a child-placing agency. to provide therapeutic foster care.
Winding branch ranch's mission is to rescue, revive, and rehome farm animals in need while educating communities about humane, ethical, and sustainable farming practices.
The corporation is organized and is to be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. the corporation is organized to hold agricultural fairs and encourage agricultural pursuits. particularly, the corporation…
Texas & southwestern cattle raisers' foundation (foundation) will build platforms to preserve the history and advance the future of the livestock industry in the southwest through cattle raisers museum exhibits, education initiatives and…
Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…
For over 66 years, heart of texas goodwill industries has been committed to changing lives through the power of work. since 1955, heart of texas goodwill has grown into the leading non-profit provider of employment readiness services and…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
The national cowgirl museum and hall of fame honors and celebrates women, past and present, whose lives exemplify the courage, resilience and independence that helped shape the west, and fosters an appreciation of the ideals and spirit of…
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kimbell Art Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 SAVING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAIUTE ATV TRAIL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE FARM ↗
- Who funds A WISH WITH WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Airpower Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds Kimbell Art Foundation ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS 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: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · The Morris Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The National Leadership Foundation · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · The Alcon Foundation Inc · Once Upon a Time 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 R David and Sherri M Jones 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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