How much did THE FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$41MArts & Culture$2.2MHealth$414kCrime & Legal$365kPhilanthropy$128kInternational$126kHuman Services$95kCommunity Improvement$52kEnvironment$50kOther$15M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

mountsaint mary'scorpssantaundergraduatestudenteducational

2019

deserttransferclaremontsaintrobertmedicaltechnology

2020

covid academicmuseumendowmentlouislibraryalzheimer'sinnovation

2021

constructiontechnologyartsrenovationbuildinglouisinnovation

2022

paviliontheatresciencelouisusc

2023

orangepolicymuseumscienceartplanusc

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k18 grants · $70k
$10k–50k16 grants · $250k
$50k–250k6 grants · $300k
$250k+10 grants · $7.5M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$176M

Total assets

Largest grants

HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY$1,000,000
POMONA COLLEGE$1,000,000
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE$1,000,000
ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA$750,000
WHITTIER COLLEGE$700,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO$500,000
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY$500,000
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$500,000
SIMPSON UNIVERSITY$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$50,000
SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC$50,000
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$50,000
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY$50,000
CRIMINAL JUSTICE LEGAL FOUNDATION$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$52M · 101 repeat orgs$6.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101

Total granted

$52M

$6.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+11%

Still filing today

67%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsOther

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

POMONA COLLEGE
3× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +2%
CU
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
4× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +49%
PU
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
3× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +36%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE
one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -9%
CI
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +19%
MS
MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2018 · $510k · revenue -10%

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.

Claremont Graduate University

A private, independent, nonprofit institution of higher learning that is a high research activity university awarding master's and doctoral degrees within its five schools and three independent departments.

Education

University of California

To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.

Education

Pitzer College

Pitzer College is an educational institution focusing on undergraduate education.

Education

Saint Mary's College of California

An institution of higher education that grants associate, baccalaureate, and masters degrees in liberal arts, science, business administration and education, as well as a doctorate in education.

Education

California Academy of Sciences

To regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration

Arts & Culture

San Francisco State University

To provide private financial support to assist the university in meeting its educational mission.

Education

Ucla Alumni Association

The mission of the ucla alumni association is to enrich the lives of alumni and involve them in the future of ucla.

Education

Pacific University

A diverse sustainable community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship, and practice, pacific inspires students to think, care, and pursue justice in our world

Education

Faculty Physicians & Surgeons of Llusm

The employment of the clinical faculty of Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Faculty Physicians and Surgeons assists in the formation of Christian Physicians educated to serve as generalists and specialists providing competent…

Health

California Polytechnic State University

The foundation's purpose is to operate as an auxiliary organization of the california state university by supporting the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california polytechnic state university, san luis obispo.

Education

California Western School of Law

California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…

Education

University of California Riverside

To preserve and promote the relationship between ucr and all its alumni. through its various services and programs, the association represents alumni and assists the university in its quest for excellence.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Skirball Cultural Center. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/137

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,841

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.

05the grantee network

129 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

126/129

Grantees still filing

88/129

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$40,559,571Other$15,193,246Arts & Culture$2,233,106Health$414,000Crime & Legal$365,000Philanthropy$127,500International$126,250

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.

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.

Pasadena Community FoundationCA46.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Otis Booth Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Wm Keck 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 organisation THE FLETCHER 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MADISON RIVER FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 562333733 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MADISON RIVER FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Fletcher Jones Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fletcher Jones Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

129 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Fletcher Jones Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

129 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Fletcher Jones Foundation?

More from the funding graph