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The Paula B and Oliver W Jones Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
73
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$482kHealth$207kAnimals$153kPhilanthropy$104kHuman Services$47kArts & Culture$40kFood & Nutrition$31kRecreation & Sports$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$4,248
DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE$4,248
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION$4,248
FEEDING SAN DIEGO$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
UNITED THROUGH READING$3,734
KIDS FIRST AT SUNSET VIEW$3,000
FRIENDS OF HUMANE SERVICES IN TIJUANA$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST$3,000
A Islam$3,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $4k → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $4k → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $3k → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB PROGRAM INC: $3k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB PROGRAM INC: $3k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB PROGRAM INC: $3k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB PROGRAM INC: $3k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB PROGRAM INC: $2k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB PROGRAM INC: $2k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB PROGRAM INC: $2k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB PROGRAM INC: $2k → 11%THE COMFORT CUB PROGRAM INC: $1k → 11%OASIS INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%OASIS INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%OASIS INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%OASIS INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%OASIS INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%OASIS INSTITUTE: $1k → 11%MAGIC HORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $1k → 11%MAGIC HORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $1k → 11%MAGIC HORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $1k → 11%MAGIC HORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $1k → 11%MAGIC HORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $600 → 11%MAGIC HORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $600 → 11%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

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
OK
LA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Paula B and Oliver W Jones Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Paula B and Oliver W Jones Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$779k · 63 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
190

Total granted

$779k
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+20%

Still filing today

78%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AT
    AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +28%
  • CE
    CARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +112%
  • DD
    DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +254%

Funded once

  • IM
    I Mohamed Noor
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • JV
    J Van
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
3
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals
4
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
5
University of San Diego

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.

—
6
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

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…

Animals
7
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
8
Associated Students of San Diego State University

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.

—
9
California Western School of Law

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…

Education
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
12
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of San Diego Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 286 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $53,493 · OtherCARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $25,346 · OtherANGEL FACES: $23,437 · OtherUNITED THROUGH READING: $26,089 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $21,129 · Other+156 more: $368,925 · Other+156 moreDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $32,394 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRI…SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $19,093 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO HUMAN…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $18,720 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCI…RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $14,923 · AnimalsRANCHO COASTAL …Humane World for Animals Inc: $12,120 · AnimalsHumane World fo…Humane World for Animals International: $10,620 · AnimalsHumane World fo…Friends of Humane Services in Tijuana: $10,343 · AnimalsFriends of Huma…HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $8,175 · AnimalsHELEN WOODWARD …THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,843 · AnimalsBLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC: $5,906 · Animals+3 more: $10,249 · Animals+3 moreROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,023 · Human ServicesROCKY MOUNTAI…FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $24,465 · Human ServicesFORESIGHT SKI…STRING OF PEARLS INC: $20,065 · Human ServicesSTRING OF PEA…The Comfort Cub Program Inc: $18,500 · Human ServicesThe Comfort C…SAN DIEGO OASIS: $9,558 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO OAS…LIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,957 · Human ServicesLIGHTBRIDGE H…SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $8,450 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO CEN…MAGIC HORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $6,344 · Human Services+1 more: $4,249 · Human ServicesPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $65,043 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHRO…LA JOLLA SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $38,750 · PhilanthropyLA JOLLA S…AUTISM TREE PROJECT INC: $58,800 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $23,000 · HealthSage Creek Foundation: $26,734 · EducationMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $15,918 · EducationPARENT CONNECT FOUNDATION: $13,800 · EducationSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,182 · EducationThe Northeastern State University Foundation Inc: $3,000 · Education+5 more: $5,000 · EducationFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $14,111 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $9,100 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$518,419Animals$150,386Human Services$130,611Philanthropy$103,793Health$81,800Education$69,634Food & Nutrition$27,211

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $65,043 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC: $58,800 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetCARLSBAD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $53,493 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetLA JOLLA SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $38,750 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $32,394 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,023 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSage Creek Foundation: $26,734 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING: $26,089 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $25,346 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFORESIGHT SKI GUIDES INC: $24,465 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST: $23,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $21,129 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTRING OF PEARLS INC: $20,065 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $19,093 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $18,720 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Comfort Cub Program Inc: $18,500 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $15,918 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCLASSICS FOR KIDS INC: $15,352 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe Friends of La Jolla Branch Library: $15,208 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetRANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $14,923 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $14,111 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FIRST AT SUNSET VIEW: $13,552 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $12,120 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals International: $10,620 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Humane Services in Tijuana: $10,343 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMIRACLE HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO OASIS: $9,558 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $9,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTBRIDGE HOSPICE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,957 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC: $8,494 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $8,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRECREATIONAL MUSIC CENTER: $8,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $8,175 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,843 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,442 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAGIC HORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $6,344 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetBLIND CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC: $5,906 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,182 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH START CARING FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARLSBAD CHRISTMAS BUREAU: $4,249 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $4,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT STREET VET: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM: $3,775 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Northeastern State University Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE ON A LEASH INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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 San Diego Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…The Cushman FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…Sempra FoundationRancho Santa Fe Found…Samuel I & John Henry…Pratt Memorial FundDavid C Copley Founda…The Nordson Corporati…The Intuit FoundationFrench Fund Samuel Ka…
The San Diego FoundationCA33.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Paula B and Oliver W Jones Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paula B and Oliver W Jones Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    20report 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 286 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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