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Thomas and Louise Jones Family Foundation Inc

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.

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$914kHealth$100kReligion$78kArts & Culture$62kScience & Tech$5kHuman Services$4kRecreation & Sports$335Public Safety & Disaster$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $161k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA$60,600
HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL$50,000
LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$2,100
MARYVALE$1,500
SALEM LUTHERAN SCHOOL$1,150
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 (FY19–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARYVALE: $2k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 14%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$1.1M
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+65%

Still filing today

30%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesScience & TechHealthRecreation & 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

  • PH
    Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
    2× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +25%
  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    3× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +112%
  • GO
    GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RECTOR WARDENS AND VESTRY OF THE CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • AN
    ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +126%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
Smithsonian Institution

*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Arts & Culture
5
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
6
The National World War Ii Museum Inc

The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…

Arts & Culture
7
Pasadena Museum of California Art

To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.

8
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
9
Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture
10
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Hermann Memorial Art Museum

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heard Museum and the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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

9 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. 9 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UCLA — $770,004 · OtherUCLALOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL — $140,000 · OtherLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOLOUR SAVIOUR CENTER — $43,500 · Other+12 more — $60,767 · Other+12 morePasadena Hospital Association Ltd — $100,000 · HealthPasadena …HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Science & TechMARYVALE — $1,500 · Human ServicesPASADENA SENIOR CENTER — $500 · Human ServicesNEW MEXICO SENIOR OLYMPICS INC — $335 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,014,271Health$100,000Arts & Culture$46,000Science & Tech$5,000Human Services$2,000Recreation & Sports$335

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYVALE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA SENIOR CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO SENIOR OLYMPICS INC — $335 over 1y, 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 Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
  • Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
  • Who funds GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM
  • Who funds MARYVALE
  • Who funds The Army Historical Foundation Inc
  • Who funds PASADENA SENIOR CENTER
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO SENIOR OLYMPICS INC

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Thomas and Louise Jones Family Foundation Inc 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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, 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Thomas and Louise Jones Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Thomas and Louise Jones Family Foundation Inc 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 24 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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