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The Ruth J Jones Charitable 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANGELICAL INSTITUTE | $52,000 |
| SCRIPTURE UNION USA | $50,000 |
| CHRISTIAN PUBLICATION RESOURCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GOODWILL NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $20,000 |
| MCKEEN STUDY CENTER | $20,000 |
| JONI & FRIENDS NEW ENGLAND | $20,000 |
| TRINITY CAMBRIDGE CHURCH | $20,000 |
| CHOP POINT | $17,500 |
| LIFE HOUSE MAINE | $15,000 |
| CARE NET OF MIDCOAST MAINE | $15,000 |
| BETHLEHEM COLLEGE & SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $10,000 |
| RICHMOND CORNER BAPTIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| NEW CANAAN CHURCH OF GOD | $5,000 |
| LIVING WATERS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 14 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SSSTEPPING STONE HOUSING INC3× · 2019–2023 · $80k · revenue +374%
- CPCHRISTIAN PUBLICATION RESOURCE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +11%
- SUScripture Union2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CBCOLLEGE BAPTIST CHURCH HILLSDALEone grant, 2024 · $55k
- LMLIGHTHOUSE MAINEone grant, 2021 · $50k
- CPCHOP POINT SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $42k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
To train and equip Christian leaders
Bringing a biblical perspective to public policy
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chop Point Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mirus Academy. 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 33 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 — 3% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 76 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.
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- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
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- Who funds COASTAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MIRUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHOP POINT INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLNHEALTH ↗
- Who funds Anselm House ↗
- Who funds ELDERCARE NETWORK OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MARS HILL AUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds Joseph and Alice McKeen Study Center ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAITIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER FOR GOOD ↗
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 Marjorie C Bailey Charitable Foundation · Edward L & Ruth J Jones Charitable Foundation · Dorothy G & Stanley E Worden Charitable Foundation · The First Fruits Foundation · Robert & Jean Burrage Charitable Foundation · The Audrey P Connor Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Reny Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Ruth J Jones Charitable 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.
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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