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Robert L Jones Charitable 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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$11kEducation$11kEnvironment$5kHuman Services$5kHealth$5kAnimals$4kPublic Benefit$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES$3,300
THE SHIP OF ZION$3,300
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN: $600 → 11%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21k · 6 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
24

Total granted

$21k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+43%

Still filing today

50%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
    2× · 2018–2019 · $7k · revenue +141%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $600 · revenue +40%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $500 · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • PO
    PEOPLE OF COLOR IN CONSERVATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • RC
    RALEIGH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +24%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
4
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
9
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
10
Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Education Partnership. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr12%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr12%39%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,157

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.

04the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SHIP OF ZION — $5,814 · OtherTHE SHIP OF ZIONPEOPLE OF COLOR IN CONSERVATION (POCIC) — $5,000 · OtherPEOPLE OF COLOR IN CONSERVATION (POCIC)CHRISTIAN VETERINARIAN MISSION — $4,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN VETERINARIAN MISSIONTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC — $3,300 · OtherTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INCBURNING BUSH MINISTRIES — $3,000 · OtherBURNING BUSH MINISTRIESHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $2,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INCWHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $1,500 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR GOOD BUSINESS — $1,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $1,000 · OtherHAYES BARTON BAPTIST CHURCH — $1,000 · OtherFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS — $1,000 · Other+6 more — $1,150 · OtherWAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $7,000 · EducationWAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSH…RALEIGH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC — $2,000 · EducationRALEIGH CHARTER HIGH SCH…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO…SIGMA NU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $500 · EducationWreaths Across America — $1,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $600 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $500 · Public BenefitHOPE REINS — $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $150 · HealthThe Methodist Home for Children Inc — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD INC — $600 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES — $1,000 · Arts & CultureFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$29,764Education$10,500Public Benefit$2,600Health$1,650Human Services$1,600Arts & Culture$1,000Youth Development$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $7,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC — $3,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRALEIGH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR GOOD BUSINESS — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Methodist Home for Children Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE REINS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGMA NU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVision Charitable Trust — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seby B Jones Family FoundationNC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seby B Jones Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · John William Pope Foundation · Maynard Family Foundation · Childtrust Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc

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 L Jones Charitable 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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