· Private foundation
The Jones Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMILEY CREEK RURAL FIRE DISTRICT | $11,000 |
| STANLEY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST | $10,000 |
| WEBER COUNTY LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH | $8,500 |
| WESTERN WATERSHEDS | $6,000 |
| IDAHO RIVERS UNITED | $6,000 |
| UTAH RIVERS COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALL | $5,000 |
| OGDEN NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| TRAILS OF FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN UTAH | $5,000 |
| HAWK WATCH INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SAGELANDS COOPERATIVE | $5,000 |
| NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
65 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +31%- WWWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +114%
- IRIDAHO RIVERS UNITED8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- SSSTANLEY SCHOOL LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
Utah water ways promotes water conservation through collaboration between government, non-profit groups, and private sector partners and empowers the public to be wise stewards of this critical shared resource.
Improve utah's wetlands through hands-on conservation and community engagement
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
The mission of the stewardship utah foundation is to advocate for the improvement of the environment in utah.
Living rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done…
Utah Open Lands' mission is to preserve and protect open space, in perpetuity, in order to maintain Utah's natural heritage and quality of life for present and future generations. The purpose of Utah Open Lands is to permanently protect…
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildearth Guardians and the most unlike its peers is Four Paws Rescue Inc. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 75 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO RIVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds Sageland Collaborative ↗
- Who funds UTAH RIVERS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS ↗
- Who funds HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Utah Dine Bikeyah ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds FOUR PAWS RESCUE 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: The Community Foundation of Utah · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Smartgo Foundation · Palladium Foundation · Maki Foundation · Smith and Wilcox Blue Skies Foundation Fka George and Oma Wilcox and Smith Foun · Val a Browning Charitable 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 Jones Family Charitable 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.
- American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
- PlayWrite Inc — 3% of income from government
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.