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The Howard a & Shirley V Jones Family 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.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$169kHealth$152kHuman Services$130kAnimals$58kHousing & Shelter$34kFood & Nutrition$29kReligion$28kEmployment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$911k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN$10,000
PATRIOTS PAWS$5,000
ST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
RECOVERY ROAD INC$3,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA ANA$2,000
PROJECT HOPE ALLIANCE$2,000
WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER$2,000
SHARE OURSELVES$2,000
MARIPOSA WOMEN FAMILY CENTER$2,000
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$1,500
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$1,500
OTRA MAS$1,500
FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF FUND$1,500
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 (FY17–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHARE OURSELVES: $2k → 10%SHARE OURSELVES: $2k → 10%SHARE OURSELVES: $2k → 10%SHARE OURSELVES: $2k → 10%SHARE OURSELVES: $2k → 10%SHARE OURSELVES: $1k → 10%OC WOMEN TO WOMEN: $2k → 10%OC WOMEN TO WOMEN: $2k → 10%RECOVERY ROAD INC: $4k → 10%RECOVERY ROAD INC: $4k → 10%RECOVERY ROAD INC: $3k → 10%RECOVERY ROAD INC: $3k → 10%RECOVERY ROAD INC: $3k → 10%FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF FUND: $3k → 10%FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF FUND: $2k → 10%FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF FUND: $2k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $5k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $3k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $3k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $3k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $3k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $2k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $2k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $2k → 10%WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER: $2k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER: $3k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER: $3k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER: $3k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER: $3k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER: $2k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER: $2k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER: $2k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER: $2k → 10%PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER: $1k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$649k · 36 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
5

Total granted

$649k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+3%

Still filing today

61%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +31%
  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +68%
  • WOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • SF
    SEANY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -99%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +3%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Thomas House Temporary Shelter

To provide at-risk and unhoused families-with-children a safe and supportive environment where they are empowered to achieve independence and self-sufficiency.

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2
Colette's Children's Home Inc

Colettes childrens home provides housing and supportive services to homeless women and children with nowhere to turn. we work to remove the barriers that cause displacement and provide the means for transition from homelessness to stable…

Housing & Shelter
3
Wiseplace

The organization provides services to homeless women over eighteen years of age, primarily in the orange county area. the services include transitional housing and emgergency shelter, meals, clothing, counseling, employment assistance and…

Human Services
4
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
5
Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County

The mission of homeless intervention services of orange county is to provide support and assistance to the underprivileged and unhoused to improve their quality of life and to help them regain stability and hope.

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6
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
7
Waymakers

Waymakers builds safer communities by helping individuals make their way through conflict and crisis to a place of strength and stability. we redirect youthful offenders, stabilize children dealing with mental health concerns, counsel…

Crime & Legal
8
Family Promise of Orange County

To provide emergency shelter, hospitality, and services to homeless families, helping to eliminate their homelessness and place each family in a home of their own in about two months.

Human Services
9
Committee On the Shelterless

At cots, our mission is to assist those experiencing homelessness to find and keep housing, increase self-sufficiency and improve well-being. we envision a community where everyone has a place to call home.

—
10
Catholic Charities of Orange County Inc

The mission of catholic charities of orange county is to provide service to people in need, promote their voice in society, and to call the church and all people to do the same."

Human Services
11
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
12
Casa Treatment Center

See schedule ocasa treatment center ("casa") is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation whose mission is to provide 24-hour, non-medical substance abuse treatment program for women. our programs emphasize abstinence from alcohol and/or other…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share Our Selves Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Discovery Arts. 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

28 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. 28 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHOC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $95,000 · OtherCHOC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOLPATRIOTS PAWS: $46,000 · OtherPATRIOTS PAWSMSR JOHN F SAMMON ENDOWMENT FUND: $21,600 · OtherMSR JOHN F SAMMON ENDOWMENT FUNDBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA ANA: $20,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA ANAWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $14,000 · Other+14 more: $50,000 · Other+14 moreOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $45,500 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGELOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $45,500 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVE…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $23,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL …Project Hope Alliance: $12,000 · EducationProject Hope AllianceLearn To Be Foundation: $5,000 · EducationWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES: $25,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS TRANSITI…PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesPRECIOUS LIFE S…Recovery Road Inc: $17,000 · Human ServicesRecovery Road I…Share Our Selves Corporation: $11,000 · Human ServicesShare Our Selve…CASA TERESA INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCASA TERESA INCFallen Firefighters Relief Fund: $6,000 · Human ServicesFallen Firefigh…OC Women2Women: $4,000 · Human ServicesMARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY CENTER: $24,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER SOLUTIONS: $8,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthISAIAH HOUSE INC: $18,000 · PhilanthropySLAVE 2 NOTHING FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyPower of One Foundation: $11,000 · Food & NutritionMarys Kitchen: $4,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionVETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS: $6,500 · AnimalsOTRA-MAS INC: $1,500 · Animals
Other$356,600Education$131,000Human Services$90,000Health$33,000Philanthropy$20,000Food & Nutrition$16,500Animals$8,000

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 budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $45,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $45,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES: $25,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY CENTER: $24,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC: $19,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetISAIAH HOUSE INC: $18,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetRecovery Road Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $14,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetProject Hope Alliance: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetShare Our Selves Corporation: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPower of One Foundation: $11,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER SOLUTIONS: $8,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCASA TERESA INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS: $6,500 over 7y, 10% of budgetFallen Firefighters Relief Fund: $6,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLearn To Be Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMarys Kitchen: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSLAVE 2 NOTHING FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOTRA-MAS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEANY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR THE CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds MARIPOSA WOMEN AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRECIOUS LIFE SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ISAIAH HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Recovery Road Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Power of One Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERINARIANS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds Fallen Firefighters Relief Fund ↗
  • Who funds Learn To Be Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Marys Kitchen ↗
  • Who funds OC Women2Women ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds SLAVE 2 NOTHING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OTRA-MAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds SEANY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA30× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Decorative Arts Society · Orange County's United Way · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · California Community Foundation · Frome Family Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · St Joseph Health System 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 The Howard a & Shirley V Jones Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard a & Shirley V Jones Family 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Howard a & Shirley V Jones Family 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 43 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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