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Stella S Jones Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$2.9MEducation$2.7MHuman Services$780kHousing & Shelter$365kPublic Benefit$225kYouth Development$115kCrime & Legal$100kPhilanthropy$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $460k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $735k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM$45,000
HAMILTON FAMILIES$45,000
FACES SF$40,000
SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $20k → 10%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $15k → 10%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $15k → 10%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $10k → 10%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $10k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDRENS NETWORK: $15k → 10%VETERANS YOGA PROJECT: $5k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDRENS NETWORK: $15k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDRENS NETWORK: $10k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $15k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $15k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $10k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $30k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $30k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $30k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $30k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $25k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $25k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $25k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $20k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $15k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $15k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $15k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 31 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
7

Total granted

$5.0M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+95%

Still filing today

81%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BS
    BARUCH S BLUMBERG INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $725k · revenue +131%
  • SM
    SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +53%
  • Homeless Prenatal Program Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • DH
    DUKE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • HA
    HORIZONS AT SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • JC
    JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +155%
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
Enterprise for Youth

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.

Youth Development
2
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
3
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
4
Achievekids

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…

Education
5
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
6
San Francisco University High School

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.

Education
7
First Graduate

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…

Youth Development
8
Presidio Hill School

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…

Education
9
Instituto Familiar De La Raza

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…

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10
Swords to Plowshares Veterans Rights Organization

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.

Public Benefit
11
10000 Degrees

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.…

Education
12
Mary's Shelter

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Family Services; 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.
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 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,675,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIATHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD…SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART): $380,000 · EducationSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SM…FACES SF: $205,000 · EducationFACES SF+4 more: $155,000 · Education+4 moreLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $1,710,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S …BARUCH S BLUMBERG INSTITUTE: $725,000 · HealthBARUCH S BLUMBERG INSTITUTEHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $240,000 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program IncSWORDS TO PLOWSHARES: $225,000 · OtherSWORDS TO PLOW…LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY THE FRANCES C ARRILLAGA ALUMNI CENTER: $150,000 · OtherLELAND STANFOR…DUKE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI AFFAIRS: $100,000 · OtherDUKE HEALTH DE…MISSION GRADUATES: $60,000 · OtherMISSION GRADUA…MY FRIEND'S PLACE: $60,000 · OtherMY FRIEND'S PL…NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · OtherNATIONAL VETER…100 COLLEGE PREP INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Other100 COLLEGE PR…Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · Other+8 more: $150,000 · Other+8 moreHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $145,000 · Human ServicesAT THE CROSSROADS: $85,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $75,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Childrens Network: $40,000 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesAIM HIGH: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesHAMILTON FAMILIES: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $130,000 · EmploymentVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $65,000 · Public Benefit
Education$2,865,000Health$2,675,000Other$945,000Human Services$520,000Housing & Shelter$170,000Employment$130,000Public Benefit$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $1,710,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,675,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBARUCH S BLUMBERG INSTITUTE: $725,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART): $380,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $240,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFACES SF: $205,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $145,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $130,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES: $110,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS: $85,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS YOGA PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION GRADUATES: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetVETERANS LEGAL INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHomeless Childrens Network: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE & SOUND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAIM HIGH: $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - LOS ANGELES: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Childrens Network ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Morris Stulsaft F…The San Francisco Fou…McNabb FoundationThe Stanley S Langend…Bothin FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Kids Co-op Inc DB…Caerus Foundation IncGolden State Communit…Bella Vista FoundationBob Woodruff Family F…Ross Stores Foundation
The Morris Stulsaft FoundationCA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Stella S Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stella S Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Stella S Jones Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Stella S Jones Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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