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The Jones Family Foundation at a glance

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The Jones Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$136kEducation$25kFood & Nutrition$12kReligion$12kHousing & Shelter$9kInternational$2kHealth$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$454k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING ASSOCIATION$35,000
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 (FY20–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $4k → 12%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $3k → 12%RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TN: $2k → 12%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

NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.
$192k · 23 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
8

Total granted

$192k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+27%

Still filing today

61%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesReligionHealthOther
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

  • BA
    BLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING POOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $32k · revenue +471% · 44% of their budget
  • TR
    THE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +432%
  • BM
    BLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • ML
    MARTIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +8%
  • YC
    YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • UW
    UPMC Wellsboro
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue 0%
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
Upmc Williamsport

UPMC Williamsport is a subsidiary of UPMC Susquehanna. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and…

Health
2
York College of Pennsylvania

York college prepares graduates for fulfilling, productive, and purposeful lives by providing high quality programs of study supported by relevant real-world experiences. continued on schedule o.as a rich and diverse community of educators…

Education
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
York University

The mission of york university is the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge. a community of faculty, students and staff are committed to academic freedom, social justice, accessible education and collegial self-governance. york university…

Education
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upmc Wellsboro; the most unlike its peers is Christian Childrens Fund. 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

20 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. 20 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · OtherBLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING ASSOCIATIONBLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING POOL: $32,000 · OtherBLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING POOLBLOSSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,600 · OtherBLOSSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $7,850 · OtherCATHOLIC HARVEST FOOD PANTRY: $6,250 · Other+10 more: $14,950 · Other+10 moreMARTIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $5,500 · EducationBLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $5,100 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $2,000 · EducationFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $800 · EducationYORK SUBURBAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $600 · EducationELMIRA COLLEGE: $600 · Education+2 more: $500 · EducationTHE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $8,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $1,200 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,200 · InternationalYORK COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,600 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $250 · AnimalsWHY NOT YOU MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 · ReligionUPMC Wellsboro: $500 · HealthNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $300 · Arts & Culture
Other$171,650Education$15,100Human Services$8,500International$2,400Animals$1,850Religion$1,000Health$500Arts & Culture$300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLOSSBURG AREA SWIMMING POOL: $32,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetTHE RESTORATION HOUSE OF EAST TENNESSEE: $8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMARTIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLOSSBURG MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $5,100 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetYORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $1,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHY NOT YOU MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYORK SUBURBAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetELMIRA COLLEGE: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPMC Wellsboro: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADFORD-TIOGA HEAD START INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $100 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.

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.

York County Community…The Robert Wood Johns…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
York County Community FoundationPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: York County Community Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jones Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Jones Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The 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 31 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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