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Stella S 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
- $10k–50k20 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $735k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH | $200,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $150,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $125,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $110,000 |
| BARUCH S BLUMBERG INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| SMART | $50,000 |
| HAMILTON FAMILIES | $45,000 |
| HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM | $45,000 |
| SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES | $40,000 |
| FACES SF | $40,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME | $30,000 |
| TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION (FORMERLY THE MISSION CONTINUES) | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $20,000 |
| COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
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, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- BSBARUCH S BLUMBERG INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $725k · revenue +131%
- SMSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +53%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- DHDUKE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI AFFAIRSone grant, 2024 · $100k
- HAHORIZONS AT SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2021 · $15k
- JCJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +155%
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.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.
First graduate's mission is to help students become the first in their families to graduate from college ready to pursue a career that is meaningful to them. we are a 12-year+ free program-recruiting students in 6th grade. offerings…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…
Swords to plowshares' mission is to heal the wounds of war, to restore dignity, hope and self-sufficiency to all veterans in need, and to significantly reduce homelessness and poverty among veterans.
10,000 degrees is a leading college success nonprofit in the san francisco bay area. we help students from low-income backgrounds gain access to and complete higher education to positively impact their communities and the world.…
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Aim High. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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 41 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 LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BARUCH S BLUMBERG INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds FACES SF ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds AT THE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MISSION GRADUATES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Homeless Childrens Network ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE & SOUND ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - LOS ANGELES ↗
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 Morris Stulsaft Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Kids Co-op Inc DBA Mariposa Kids · Caerus Foundation Inc · Golden State Community Foundation · Bella Vista Foundation · Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · Ross Stores Foundation
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 Stella S 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.
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