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Robert K & a Joyce Jones Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| TYLER E JONES ART SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $11,000 |
| GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $8,500 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $8,000 |
| GUIDE DOG FUND FOR THE BLIND | $7,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $6,000 |
| DENVER ZOOOLOICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $4,000 |
| VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES | $3,000 |
| KENYA DRYLANDS EDUCATION FUND | $2,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $2,000 |
| THE STRATTON FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
37 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
- GCGrace Cottage Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +115%
- TETYLER EVAN JONES ART SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +81%
- TMTHE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +7%
Funded once
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.
Mt. Ascutney Outdoors, Inc's mission is to promote vitality within the community by providing affordable and unique recreational, cultural and educational activities to local residents and visitors from the Upper Valley region of Vermont…
Burke mountain academy (bma) provides passionate ski racers the opportunity to pursue their limitless academic and athletic potential in a community based on trust. (continues in schedule o)(continued)we embrace an ethos in which hard work…
Catamount Institute is dedicated to connecting kids to the outdoors through environmental education and outdoor adventures.
Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.
Provide nature-based education and mentoring to youth and adults in southern vermont and western massachusetts.
At vffs our mission is for the community to embrace learning in an integrated academic and social context while cultivating a long-lasting relationship with each other and the natural world. educational programming served over 2500…
To collect preserve and celebrate vermont's skiing history.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…
Connecticut valley sno-riders, inc. is a volunteer organization founded in 1973 which maintains more than 80 miles of groomed snowmobile trails in vermont.
The mission of vins is to motivate individuals and communities to care for the environment through education, research, and avian wildlife rehabilitation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tyler Evan Jones Art Scholarship Fund Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
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 37 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 Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
- Who funds TYLER EVAN JONES ART SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc ↗
- Who funds STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carlos Otis Stratton Mountain Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Stratton Mountain Volunteer Fire Co Inc ↗
- Who funds Winhall Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds Londonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc Londonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HILDENE 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Carwill Foundation · Truettner Family Foundation · The Mary K and Walter M Miller Family Foundation Inc · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Robert K & a Joyce 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
- Catamount Trail Association — 10% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
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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