· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
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; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +31%
- LMLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +68%
WOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- SFSEANY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -99%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +3%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone 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.
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.
To provide at-risk and unhoused families-with-children a safe and supportive environment where they are empowered to achieve independence and self-sufficiency.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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."
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.
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…
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
How this is measured
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