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The Milton and Barbara Jones Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Milton and Barbara Jones Foundation Inc

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.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$449kArts & Culture$73kReligion$18kHealth$15kPublic Benefit$10kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$6k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$50,000
DELTA EDUCATION AND LIFE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC$10,000
ROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC$5,000
THE SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION OF BROWARD COUNTY$3,000
ARCHBIHOPS CHARITIES AND DEVELOPMENT (ABCD)$2,000
BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION$750
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE LINKS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $13k → 13%ARCHBIHOPS CHARITIES AND DEVELOPMENT (ABCD): $2k → 15%FAMU FOUNDATION: $26k → 19%JUNIOR ACHEIVMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5k → 13%ARCHBIHOPS CHARITIES AND DEVELOPMENT (ABCD): $2k → 15%FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%FRIENDS OF AARLLC: $5k → 13%ARCHBIHOPS CHARITIES AND DEVELOPMENT (ABCD): $2k → 15%FAMU FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%FRIENDS OF AARLLC: $5k → 13%ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $11k → 13%FRIENDS OF AARLLC: $5k → 13%SAINT ANTHONY CHURCH: $1k → 13%THE PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS: $500 → 13%SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION OF BROWARD COUNTY: $5k → 13%THE SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION OF BROWARD COUNTY: $3k → 13%THE SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION OF BROWARD COUNTY: $2k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $174k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $87k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $26k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $42k → 13%BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $750 → 13%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$537k · 9 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$537k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+64%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $368k · revenue +45%
  • FA
    Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +27%
  • DE
    DELTA EDUCATION AND LIFE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +64%
  • SA
    ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +17%
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
Florida Research Center for Agricultural Sustainability Inc
Philanthropy
2
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
3
University of Miami
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4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Barry University Inc

Barry university is a catholic institution of higher education founded by the adrian dominican sisters. with a liberal arts tradition, barry university is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate,…

Education
6
Florida Endowment Foundation for Florida's Graduates Inc

The organization's mission is to bring academic, work, life and economic opportunities to students whose potential to contribute to a robust florida is largely untapped.

Education
7
Florida Breast Cancer Coalition Research Foundation Inc

To save the lives of those impacted by breast cancer by supporting sscientific research, community education, public policy through advocacy, and community-based organizations.

Health
8
Florida Education and Arts Trust
Philanthropy
9
Minorities in Shark Sciences Inc

Miss provides a community and funding opportunities for women of color who wish to enter the field of shark sciences. we aim to show that there are many women of color succeeding in and interested in this field. we fundraise and apply for…

Education
10
The Everglades Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

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12
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pace Center for Girlsinc; the most unlike its peers is African American Research Library and Cultural Ctr. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nova Southeastern University Inc: $367,531 · EducationNova Southeastern University IncFlorida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc: $32,000 · EducationFlorida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation IncDELTA EDUCATION AND LIFE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $70,385 · OtherBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS…FRIENDS OF AARLLC: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF AARLLCST ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $11,000 · OtherST ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHU…THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherTHE LINKS FOUNDATION IN…ARCHBIHOPS CHARITIES AND DEVELOPMENT (ABCD): $6,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHEIVMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $3,000 · OtherROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC: $15,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $12,500 · InternationalTHE SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $9,500 · PhilanthropyAFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CTR: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $500 · Youth Development
Education$419,531Other$120,385Health$15,000International$12,500Philanthropy$9,500Arts & Culture$2,500Youth Development$500

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 budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $367,531 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $70,385 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFlorida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA EDUCATION AND LIFE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Junior Achievement of South Florida Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 16 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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