· Private foundation
The Paula B and Oliver W Jones Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of The Paula B and Oliver W Jones Family Foundation Inc’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC | $9,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $9,000 |
| PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| CARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $6,560 |
| SOUL DOG RESCUE | $4,249 |
| DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE | $4,248 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $4,248 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $4,248 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| UNITED THROUGH READING | $3,734 |
| FRIENDS OF HUMANE SERVICES IN TIJUANA | $3,000 |
| A Islam | $3,000 |
| KIDS FIRST AT SUNSET VIEW | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Paula B and Oliver W Jones Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 32 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- ATAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +28%
- CECARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +112%
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +254%
Funded once
- JJJ J Fowlerone grant, 2022 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PDP Dulayone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The university of san diego is a contemporary catholic university, grounded in the liberal arts and anchored along an international border, advancing academic excellence to create a more inclusive, sustainable and hopeful world.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of San Diego Inc and the most unlike its peers is Y Africa. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 286 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sage Creek Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FACES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds STRING OF PEARLS INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds The Comfort Cub Program Inc ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CLASSICS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Friends of La Jolla Branch Library ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds PARENT CONNECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST AT SUNSET VIEW ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals International ↗
- Who funds Friends of Humane Services in Tijuana ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO OASIS ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RECREATIONAL MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAGIC HORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
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 San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Cushman Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · David C Copley Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua
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 Paula B and Oliver W Jones Family Foundation Inc 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.