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Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$460k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Philanthropy$840kArts & Culture$648kEducation$470kReligion$175kFood & Nutrition$115kCrime & Legal$112kHousing & Shelter$106kHealth$94kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$125,000
WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC$50,000
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH$25,000
COLLEGE OF WOOSTER$20,000
MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER$20,000
THE VILLAGE NETWORK$16,000
PEOPLE TO PEOPLE$10,000
TRANSFORMATIONAL HOUSING$10,000
UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WOOSTER$5,000
SERVING WOMEN IN GHANA$5,000
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNE MEDINA: $20k → 7%ONEEIGHTY INC: $5k → 10%ONE EIGHTY INC: $5k → 10%LEARN N PLAY OF WOOSTER: $3k → 10%PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES: $3k → 10%ONE EIGHTY INC: $3k → 10%LEARN N PLAY OF WOOSTER: $2k → 10%ONEEIGHTY INC: $2k → 10%PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES: $2k → 10%LEARN N PLAY OF WOOSTER: $2k → 10%LEARN N PLAY OF WOOSTER: $2k → 10%ONE EIGHTY INC: $2k → 10%LEARN N PLAY OF WOOSTER: $2k → 10%ONEEIGHTY INC: $2k → 10%PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES: $2k → 10%ONE EIGHTY INC: $2k → 10%ONE EIGHTY INC: $2k → 10%ONE EIGHTY INC: $2k → 10%PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES: $1k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNE-MEDINA: $1k → 10%WAYNE COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $1k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNE-MEDINA: $1k → 10%FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS OF ONE EIGHTY: $1k → 10%PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES: $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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 40 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
32

Total granted

$2.0M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-7%

Still filing today

53%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • TD
    THE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $250k · revenue +317%
  • THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +17%
  • AR
    AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
    5× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • WC
    WOOSTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +37%
  • WM
    WOOSTER MASONIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • PP
    PARKVIEW PTO
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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
Wayne Economic Development Council Inc

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.

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2
Conference of Western Wayne

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.

Community Improvement
3
Wayne Mediation Center

Wayne mediation center strives to provide the community served with a process for resolving disputes through empowerment, education, and effectiveness.

Civil Rights
4
Wooster School Corporation

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…

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5
Wayne State University Alumni Association

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…

Education
6
Waynesburg University

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…

Education
7
Wayne County Healthy Communities

Providing access to quality primary health care for all.

Health
8
Wayne County Historical Society of Ohio

The wayne county historical society is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of wayne county.

—
9
Wayne County Community Foundation

The foundation invests in the community by growing its endowment, encouraging philanthropy & innovation, supporting charitable activities, and assessing & addressing community needs.

Philanthropy
10
Wayne County Public Library Inc

Public lending library

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11
Western Reserve Community Fund Inc

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.

Community Improvement
12
Wayne State Foundation

To aid, assist & promote education

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne County Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 79 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $175,000 · OtherCENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCHWAYNE COUNTY FAIR BOARD: $75,000 · OtherWAYNE COUNTY FAIR BOARDUNITED WAY OF WAYNE & HOL: $70,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WAYNE & HOLHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAYNE COUNT: $53,500 · OtherLIFECARE HOSPICE: $42,334 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN WAYNE COUNTY: $42,279 · OtherWAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $61,500 · OtherWAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYSERVING WOMEN IN GHANA: $45,500 · OtherWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $40,000 · Other+53 more: $401,922 · Other+53 moreWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $734,793 · PhilanthropyWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUND…+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $275,000 · Arts & CultureWAYNE CENTER FOR THE…THE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DOWNTOWN ARTS TH…GREAT DECISIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY: $21,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $220,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF…KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationKENT STATE UNI…MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER INC: $65,000 · EducationMONTESSORI SCH…+2 more: $12,500 · EducationAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $115,000 · Food & NutritionTHE VILLAGE NETWORK: $107,500 · Crime & LegalONEEIGHTY INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA: $22,000 · Human ServicesLEARN N PLAY OF WOOSTER: $11,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER: $8,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$1,007,035Philanthropy$744,793Arts & Culture$546,000Education$377,500Food & Nutrition$115,000Crime & Legal$107,500Human Services$66,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $734,793 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWAYNE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $275,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN ARTS THEATER INC: $250,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $220,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE NETWORK: $107,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WOOSTER INC: $65,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $61,500 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetSERVING WOMEN IN GHANA: $45,500 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetLIFECARE HOSPICE: $42,334 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOOSTER COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONEEIGHTY INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Wooster Inc: $22,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT DECISIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY: $21,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMAIN STREET WOOSTER INC: $11,590 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLEARN N PLAY OF WOOSTER: $11,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSCHANTZ MAKERSPACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONAL HOUSING: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER: $8,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHCARE 2000 COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOOSTER ROTARY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTRIWAY ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $2,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWOOSTER ALL-SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKILLBUCK WATERSHED LAND TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 UNITED WAY OF WAYNE AND HOLMES CO ↗
  • Who funds SCHANTZ MAKERSPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRANSFORMATIONAL HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE TO PEOPLE MINISTRIES INC % JOSEPH SZEKER ↗

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.

Wayne County Communit…Donald & Alice Noble …Charles W & Laura B F…Seaman Family Foundat…United Way of Wayne a…Romich FoundationCharles Loehr Charita…Burton D Morgan Found…The Westfield Insuran…Wooster Elks Lodge No…The College of WoosterRobert H Reakirt Fdn …
Wayne County Community FoundationOH61.2× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph R and Grace B Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 79 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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