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The Jones Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$166k
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$344kHealth$76kEducation$56kArts & Culture$37kYouth Development$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kRecreation & Sports$15kHuman Services$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMILEY CREEK RURAL FIRE DISTRICT$11,000
WEBER COUNTY LIBRARY$10,000
STANLEY SCHOOL$10,000
ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH$8,500
UTAH RIVERS COUNCIL$6,000
WESTERN WATERSHEDS$6,000
IDAHO RIVERS UNITED$6,000
SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALL$5,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES$5,000
HAWK WATCH INTERNATIONAL$5,000
OGDEN NATURE CENTER$5,000
SAGELANDS COOPERATIVE$5,000
TRAILS OF FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN UTAH$5,000
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INN BETWEEN: $500 → 8%INN BETWEEN: $500 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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ND
NY
MA
OR
NV
CA
UT
CO
MO
AZ
NM
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$652k · 65 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
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Total granted

$652k
$5k

Still filing today

52%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +31%
  • WW
    WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +131%
  • IR
    IDAHO RIVERS UNITED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • SS
    STANLEY SCHOOL LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
2
Utah Geological Foundation
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3
Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment
4
Idaho Conservation League Inc

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.

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5
Utah Water Ways Inc

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.

Environment
6
Wasatch Wigeons Association

Improve utah's wetlands through hands-on conservation and community engagement

Animals
7
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
8
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
9
Stewardship Utah Foundation

The mission of the stewardship utah foundation is to advocate for the improvement of the environment in utah.

Human Services
10
Living Rivers

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…

Environment
11
Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc

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…

Environment
12
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildearth Guardians; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
23/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $42,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALL: $35,000 · OtherSOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLWEBER COUNTY LIBRARY: $20,000 · OtherWEBER COUNTY LIBRARYNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $13,000 · OtherSMILEY CREEK RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: $11,000 · OtherMT HOLYOAK UNIVERSITY: $10,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,150 · OtherTRAILS OF FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN UTAH: $10,000 · OtherSTANLEY SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH: $10,000 · Other+39 more: $99,550 · Other+39 moreWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC: $44,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INCIDAHO RIVERS UNITED: $41,000 · EnvironmentIDAHO RIVERS UNITEDSageland Collaborative: $40,000 · EnvironmentSageland CollaborativeUTAH RIVERS COUNCIL INC: $34,000 · EnvironmentUTAH RIVERS COUNCIL INCADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INCSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $18,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONUtah Dine Bikeyah: $12,000 · EnvironmentUtah Dine BikeyahSAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC: $9,000 · Environment+2 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $59,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · HealthST LUKE'S WO…ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · HealthARTHRITIS FO…GREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $29,000 · AnimalsGREATER OGDE…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $28,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR B…HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $13,000 · AnimalsHAWKWATCH IN…FOUR PAWS RESCUE INC: $3,000 · Animals+2 more: $1,600 · AnimalsCANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $600 · Arts & CultureCOTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS: $16,000 · EducationYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT: $4,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$271,200Environment$221,000Health$75,500Animals$74,600Arts & Culture$26,600Education$16,000Crime & Legal$4,000

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $59,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC: $44,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetIDAHO RIVERS UNITED: $41,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSageland Collaborative: $40,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetUTAH RIVERS COUNCIL INC: $34,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $29,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOTTONWOOD GULCH EXPEDITIONS: $16,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $13,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUtah Dine Bikeyah: $12,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOUR PAWS RESCUE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOREGON-CALIFORNIA TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF UTAH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTEWARDSHIP UTAH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLISTENERS COMMUNITY RADIO OF UTAH INC: $1,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Whitewater: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlayWrite Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDDI VANTAGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FOUR PAWS RESCUE 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.

The Community Foundat…David Kelby Johnson M…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …Willard L Eccles Char…PatagoniaorgSmartgo FoundationPalladium FoundationMaki FoundationSmith and Wilcox Blue…Val a Browning Charit…
The Community Foundation of UtahUT29.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jones Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jones Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
  • PlayWrite Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report 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.

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 75 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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