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R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$27,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$639k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitCivil RightsHealthOther
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 arriving2$38k0%
FY20243$35k0%
FY20235$34k20%
FY20226$40k0%
FY20217$29k14%
FY20207$10k71%
FY20197$8k71%
FY20188$9k63%
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$62kHuman Services$47kRecreation & Sports$17kFood & Nutrition$14kHealth$7kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$1kCivil Rights$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaving Hope Foundation: $56,189 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetPaiute Atv Trail Committee Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetFreedom House: $13,136 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSecond Chance Farm: $11,750 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetA Wish With Wings Inc: $7,136 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Fort Worth Zoological Association: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmon Carter Museum of Western Art: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSafehaven of Tarrant County: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant County: $1,136 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Children Inc: $1,136 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women's Center of Tarrant County Inc: $1,136 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKimbell Art Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Fort Worth Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgricultural Development Fund: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Tarrant County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBotanical Research Institute of Texas Inc: $1,000 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 18.

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.

Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation IncTX30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation?

Find your warmest path to R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation 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.

About R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation

How much does R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation give?
R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $37,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (30%), Human Services (22%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
Who are R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saving Hope Foundation ($56k), Paiute Atv Trail Committee Inc ($17k), Freedom House ($13k).
Does R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Bnsf Railway Foundation, Sid W Richardson Foundation.
Where is R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation based?
R David and Sherri M Jones Foundation is based in IL.

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 25 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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