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The Ron & Linda Jones Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$428kHuman Services$134kArts & Culture$40kYouth Development$18kInternational$12kAnimals$3kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $200
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$51k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DA$55,000
HELP IN HEALING HOME$10,000
A NEW LEAF$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA$200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$622k · 11 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
15

Total granted

$622k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+121%

Still filing today

55%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • HI
    HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $44k · revenue +106%
  • MI
    MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2022 · $40k · revenue +84%
  • AH
    Arizona Humane Society
    2× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • RH
    Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +121%
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Arizona Housing Inc

The mission of arizona housing, inc. (ahi) is to assist individuals and families in attaining self-sufficiency through the provision of dignified, comprehensive housing and services. founded in 1995, ahi works to ensure everyone has a…

Housing & Shelter
2
Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International
3
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
4
Songs of Love Foundation

Its mission is to bring joy and comfort, laughter and healing to children and young adults who are chronically or terminally ill. it does so through personalized songs that honor the child. its motto is: the medicine of music.

Human Services
5
Arizona Opera Company

Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.

Arts & Culture
6
Arizona Women's Education and Employment Inc

Awee makes it possible for generous people to help women overcome obstacles and get better jobs, creating better tomorrows for themselves, their families, and their community.

7
Keralink International Inc

Keralink international works to end avoidable blindness by developing, delivering, and scaling affordable solutions for all, powered by innovative technology and partnerships.

Health
8
Yours Humanly

Yours Humanly (YH) transforms the lives of children in need around the world by providing access to quality education and equitable resources. Through its two flagship initiatives, Coloring Futures and Bridging Gaps, YH has completed 34…

Education
9
Meta House Inc

Meta house ends the generational cycle of addiction by healing women and strengthening families.

10
House of Refuge Inc

House of refuge, inc. (the organization) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving families experiencing homelessness in arizona. founded on april 17, 1996, the organization provides transitional housing in a neighborhood setting…

Housing & Shelter
11
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

12
Home Matters to Arizona

Home matters to arizona is the first statewide home matters initiative focused on a new generation of affordable housing, connected communities, and healthier individuals, families, and economies. we add housing units while encouraging…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf and the most unlike its peers is Project Humanity. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — $323,721 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DA — $104,500 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAHELP IN HEALING HOME — $20,000 · Other+14 more — $23,560 · OtherHOMEWARD BOUND — $60,500 · Housing & ShelterHOMEWARD BO…+1 more — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterHELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION INC — $43,797 · Human ServicesMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $39,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $12,000 · InternationalA NEW LEAF — $10,000 · HealthSTARRY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthArizona Humane Society — $1,250 · AnimalsSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC — $800 · Recreation & Sports
Other$471,781Housing & Shelter$62,500Human Services$43,797Arts & Culture$40,500International$12,000Health$11,000Animals$1,250Recreation & Sports$800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOMEWARD BOUND — $60,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION INC — $43,797 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM — $39,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA NEW LEAF — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArizona Humane Society — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTARRY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNick Lowery Youth Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 HOMEWARD BOUND
  • Who funds HELP IN HEALING HOME FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US
  • Who funds A NEW LEAF
  • Who funds Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc
  • Who funds Arizona Humane Society
  • Who funds STARRY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Nick Lowery Youth Foundation
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC
  • Who funds PROJECT HUMANITY

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ron & Linda Jones Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to The Ron & Linda Jones Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ron & Linda Jones Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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