· Private foundation
The Steve and Kathleen Jonsson 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
| CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ST MICHAELS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MERCY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SACRAMENTO LIFE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION- UCLA | $5,000 |
| SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MFMERCY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue -29%
- CFCARTI Foundation Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $31k · revenue -38%
- CACROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION3× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue -24%
Funded once
- NSNATURAL STATE COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +39%
- CACENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -10%
- OHOUR HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +89%
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.
To make trusted cancer care accessible for every patient we serve through compassion, innovation and purpose.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
We are called to strengthen communities by empowering people to respond to life's challenges.
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Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
To promote, support and further the interests and purposes of the arc of the united states, inc.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To provide high quality care and set the standards of excellence for those we serve.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seal Society of Superior California and the most unlike its peers is Sacramento Life Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 MERCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARTI Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ACCESS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Region Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NATURAL STATE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Central Arkansas Planning & Development District Inc · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Steve and Kathleen Jonsson 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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