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The Steve and Kathleen Jonsson Foundation at a glance

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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.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$136kEducation$45kArts & Culture$27kPhilanthropy$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kYouth Development$3kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$743k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY FOUNDATION$15,000
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
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$5,000
SACRAMENTO LIFE CENTER INC$5,000
JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION- UCLA$5,000
SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $1k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 7 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$203k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-24%
+19%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue -29%
  • CF
    CARTI Foundation Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $31k · revenue -38%
  • CA
    CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue -24%

Funded once

  • NS
    NATURAL STATE COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +39%
  • CA
    CENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -10%
  • OH
    OUR HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +89%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute Inc

To make trusted cancer care accessible for every patient we serve through compassion, innovation and purpose.

Health
2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
Ascentria Care Alliance Inc

We are called to strengthen communities by empowering people to respond to life's challenges.

Human Services
4
Arkansas Children's Foundation

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…

Health
5
American Cancer Society Inc

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.

Health
6
Foundation of the Arc of the United States

To promote, support and further the interests and purposes of the arc of the united states, inc.

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7
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
8
Emanate Health Medical Center

Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.

Health
9
American Gas Association

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…

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10
Healthcare Services of the Ozarks Inc

To provide high quality care and set the standards of excellence for those we serve.

Health
11
Cook Children's Medical Center

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.

Health
12
Arkansas Children's Hospital

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seal Society of Superior California; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthMERCY FOUNDATIONCARTI Foundation Inc: $31,000 · HealthCARTI Foundation IncEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · HealthEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIASacramento Life Center Inc: $15,000 · HealthSacramento Life Center IncST MICHAELS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherST MICHAELS EP…THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTHE JONSSON CA…+1 more: $1,000 · OtherCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $27,000 · Arts & CultureCROCKER ART …ACCESS GROUP INC: $20,000 · EducationACCESS GR…Sacramento Region Community Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropySacrament…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE CALL: $1,000 · Human ServicesNATURAL STATE COUNCIL: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentARKANSAS FOODBANK: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$131,000Other$31,000Arts & Culture$27,000Education$20,000Philanthropy$20,000Human Services$7,000Youth Development$2,500Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCARTI Foundation Inc: $31,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS GROUP INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Region Community Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSacramento Life Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL STATE COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL ARKANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS FOODBANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Arkansas Community Fo…Riggs Benevolent FundNabholz Charitable Fo…Sacramento Region Com…Central Arkansas Plan…Roy and Christine Stu…Windgate Charitable F…The Brown Foundation …Shell USA Company Fou…Union Pacific Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Steve and Kathleen Jonsson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steve and Kathleen Jonsson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Steve and Kathleen Jonsson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Steve and Kathleen Jonsson 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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