· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE HOWARD A & SHIRLEY V JONES FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHOC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PATRIOTS PAWS | $5,000 |
| ST ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| RECOVERY ROAD INC | $3,000 |
| SHARE OURSELVES | $2,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA ANA | $2,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| MARIPOSA WOMEN FAMILY CENTER | $2,000 |
| WOMEN'S TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER | $2,000 |
| LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS RELIEF FUND | $1,500 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| OTRA MAS | $1,500 |
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.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share Our Selves Corporation and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
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 Howard a & Shirley V Jones Family 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.
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.
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