· Private foundation
The Robert E 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $11,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $8,000 |
| BRIANNA MARIE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| HADDIS MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| GIVE THE KIDS THE WORLD | $5,000 |
| THE COVERING HOUSE | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HORSES | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| RANKEN JORDAN | $5,000 |
| CHANCE 2 DANCE INC | $5,000 |
| BAKING MEMORIES 4 KIDS | $5,000 |
| ADVENT HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTRAL FLORIDA | $2,500 |
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, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 14 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +145%- BMBRIANNA MARIE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +38%
- TCTHE COVERING HOUSE8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS ZOOone grant, 2017 · $10k
- RCRHEMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +81%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $8k
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 humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.
The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
Paws chicago is a national leader in the no kill animal welfare movement, helping more than 23,842 homeless and at-risk pets each year through comprehensive spay/neuter, medical, and adoption programs.
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
The mission of take paws rescue is to meet the moral obligation to protect and save the lives of pets in need of rescue in louisiana. take paws rescue enacts this mission by pulling pets from rural and high kill shelters and preparing them…
To champion homeless cats and dogs who are healthy or treatable in the quest to find their forever homes and engage with our community to provide responsible pet ownership reducing future generations of homeless animals.
We have a no-kill mission to save the lives of homeless cats and dogs abandoned and/or placed in kill shelters, while also providing life-saving programs and services to keep pets and their people together. through outreach, education and…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Shriners Hospital for Children. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 90 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
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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BRIANNA MARIE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COVERING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RESCUE OUTREACH MISSION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS SERVICES NETWORK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Little Smiles Inc ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Home Health and Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RHEMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHANCE 2 DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SENIOR DOG PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Tsf · Jefferson Foundation
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 Robert E Jones Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Homeless Services Network of Central Florida Inc — 87% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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