· Private foundation
Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $125,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER | $20,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WOOSTER | $20,000 |
| THE VILLAGE NETWORK | $16,000 |
| TRANSFORMATIONAL HOUSING | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO | $10,000 |
| PEOPLE TO PEOPLE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ONEEIGHTY INC | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WOOSTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- TDTHE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC3× · 2021–2024 · $250k · revenue +317%
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +17%- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK5× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- WCWOOSTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +37%
- WMWOOSTER MASONIC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- PPPARKVIEW PTOone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
To maximize the development and utilization of the human and economic resources of the wayne county georgraphical area in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the welfare of people of the area.
All of the expenses of the cww are for the purpose of improving local government and administration through cooperative efforts. all services are provided to various communities in western wayne county, michigan.
Wayne mediation center strives to provide the community served with a process for resolving disputes through empowerment, education, and effectiveness.
The purpose of the wooster school is to prepare young people for fulfillment, happiness and success in life through the rigorous and healthy development of intellect, conscience, body and spirit. the wooster school community fosters a…
The wsuaa exists to provide opportunities for alumni to participate in and contribute to wayne state university ("wsu"). the mission of the wsuaa is to provide wsu's alumni and friends information, resources, programs and service…
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
Providing access to quality primary health care for all.
The wayne county historical society is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of wayne county.
The foundation invests in the community by growing its endowment, encouraging philanthropy & innovation, supporting charitable activities, and assessing & addressing community needs.
Public lending library
In furtherance thereof, the corporation shall be organized to support and further community development and job creation in the state of ohio and will initially focus on the 5-county region of medina, portage, stark, summit, and wayne.
To aid, assist & promote education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Serving Women in Ghana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 79 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 WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SERVING WOMEN IN GHANA ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WOOSTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONEEIGHTY INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Wooster Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA ↗
- Who funds GREAT DECISIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET WOOSTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEARN N PLAY OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds SCHANTZ MAKERSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATIONAL HOUSING ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER ↗
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: Wayne County Community Foundation · Donald & Alice Noble Foundation Inc · Charles W & Laura B Frick Irr · Seaman Family Foundation Trust · United Way of Wayne and Holmes Co · Romich Foundation · Charles Loehr Charitable Trust · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Charitable Fund · The College of Wooster · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities
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 Ralph R and Grace B 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.