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The Fletcher Jones Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$52MArts & Culture$2.5MScience & Tech$2.0MHealth$1.9MYouth Development$563kCrime & Legal$365kRecreation & Sports$311kPhilanthropy$148kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
  • $250k+10 grants · $7.5M
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$176M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POMONA COLLEGE$1,000,000
CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE$1,000,000
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY$1,000,000
ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA$750,000
WHITTIER COLLEGE$700,000
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO$500,000
SIMPSON UNIVERSITY$500,000
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY$500,000
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$50,000
CRIMINAL JUSTICE LEGAL FOUNDATION$50,000
SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC$50,000
ST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$50,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TILLAMOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION RESOURCE ENTERPRISES INC: $5k → 12%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 14%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $6k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $5k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $5k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $3k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $3k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $3k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $1k → 7%WORD OF HONOR FUND: $1k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10k → 10%TIA'S HOPE: $5k → 14%TIA'S HOPE: $5k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $6k → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $5k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $5k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $8k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $5k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $3k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $1k → 14%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

ID
MT
IL
MI
NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
DE
NM
NC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The Fletcher Jones Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Fletcher Jones Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$50M · 92 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

92 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
82

Total granted

$50M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+26%

Still filing today

82%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS
    3× · 2017–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +3%
  • POMONA COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +90%
  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +18%
  • MS
    MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $510k · revenue +1%
  • MC
    MILLS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -37%

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
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
2
Pacific University

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

Education
3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
6
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
7
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
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
11
La Salle University

See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…

Education
12
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of the Pacific and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Learning Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Community FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsMilitary Veterans SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
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 53 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%49%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%7%20–35yr11%5%35–55yr13%85%55yr+

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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/152
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,826

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

142 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 142 of the 189 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
139/142
Grantees still filing
106/142
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS — $2,950,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDSPOMONA COLLEGE — $2,800,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGECHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $2,600,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $2,564,938 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $2,000,000 · EducationHarvey Mudd College — $2,000,000 · EducationWESTMONT COLLEGE — $1,925,000 · EducationLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY — $1,833,800 · EducationUniversity of San Francisco — $1,700,000 · EducationUniversity of the Pacific — $1,700,000 · EducationWhittier College — $1,660,000 · Education+52 more — $24,592,329 · Education+52 moreUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $2,450,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF S…Claremont McKenna College — $2,100,000 · OtherClaremont McKen…BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL — $521,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF A…MILLS COLLEGE — $500,000 · OtherMILLS COLLEGEMARYMOUNT CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · Other+83 more — $2,075,750 · Other+83 moreHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $1,770,356 · Arts & CultureTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $232,750 · Arts & CultureChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $230,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $150,000 · HealthMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $95,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center — $25,000 · Health+5 more — $49,000 · HealthCriminal Justice Legal Foundation — $325,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Legal Foundation — $40,000 · Crime & LegalDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $97,500 · PhilanthropyMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyMAX S BAUCUS INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY — $110,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $10,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $5,000 · International+1 more — $1,250 · International
Education$48,326,067Other$8,046,750Arts & Culture$2,403,106Health$649,000Crime & Legal$365,000Philanthropy$172,500International$126,250

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS — $2,950,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $2,800,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $2,600,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $2,564,938 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $2,450,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetClaremont McKenna College — $2,100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarvey Mudd College — $2,000,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE — $1,925,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY — $1,833,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $1,770,356 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco — $1,700,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of the Pacific — $1,700,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWhittier College — $1,660,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA — $1,600,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $1,600,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetScripps College — $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSIMPSON UNIVERSITY — $1,500,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $1,251,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE — $1,200,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKeck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences — $1,200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY — $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE — $1,200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $1,115,133 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,047,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,010,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY — $803,250 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetVANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL — $799,996 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC — $700,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — $510,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE — $500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN — $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARYMOUNT CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY — $400,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCriminal Justice Legal Foundation — $325,000 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $265,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNOTRE DAME DE NAMUR UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $230,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC — $150,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY — $110,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPacific Oaks Education Corporation — $103,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $102,500 over 5y, 0.1% 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.

Pasadena Community Fo…The Rose Hills Founda…California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Weingart FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…Carrie Estelle Doheny…Orange County Communi…The Confidence Founda…Whh FoundationThe Green FoundationSempra Foundation
Pasadena Community FoundationCA39.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · Whh Foundation · The Green Foundation · Sempra 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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Tillamook County Community Action Resource Enterprises Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
29report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Fletcher Jones Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fletcher 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 189 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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