· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| TYLER E JONES ART SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $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 |
| STRATTON MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGrace Cottage Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +229%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carlos Otis Stratton Mountain Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Stratton Mountain Volunteer Fire Co Inc ↗
- Who funds Londonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc Londonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad ↗
- Who funds Winhall Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert K & a Joyce Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert K & a Joyce Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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