· Private foundation
The Robert a and Shirley J Jones Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Connections for the Homeless | $20,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $15,000 |
| National Park Foundation | $9,000 |
| Community Sharing Program | $8,000 |
| Care House of Oakland County | $7,500 |
| Samaritans Purse | $6,850 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $6,000 |
| Naples Zoo | $5,000 |
| Direct Relief | $5,000 |
| Womens Resource Center of NMI | $5,000 |
| Refugee One | $5,000 |
| Gleaners Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Ravinia Festival | $5,000 |
| Association for Frontotemporal Dege | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +14%
- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +202%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- LPLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +73%
THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUNDone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +12%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +12%
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.
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.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 71 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds START EARLY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Culinary Care ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds Mudlark Theater Company NFP ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · National Philanthropic Trust · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · DTE Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert a and Shirley J Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert a and Shirley J Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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