Virginia · Nonprofit
JONES GARDENS
JONES GARDENS (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,277 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE ($48,777). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Jones Gardens does
Mission
Jones Gardens exists for the charitable purpose of nourishing and unifying communities through the creation of vibrant urban garden oases. These gardens improve fresh food access for local families and provide meaningful food education experiences for the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Food production: Jones Gardens produced 6,500 pounds of produce at their community gardens that was provided at no to low cost to a usda designated low income low food access neighborhood serving an average of 70 households weekly.
$34,409 spent94% of program spendingFood delivery for senior citizens: a portion of the vegetable yields were distributed to elderly households in the city of staunton free of charge. A total of 25 households received vegetable deliveries this year.
$649 spent2% of program spendingGarden labs: Jones Gardens also hosts interactive workshops at their gardens during the summer. A total of 9 garden labs were completed covering several topics concerning food and environmental stewardship. 43 community members participated in these workshops.
$1,358 spent4% of program spendingOther programs include a composting program, 6,000 pounds of compost collected in return for free produce and also our "sample saturdays" where we share vegetable recipe inspiration withour market customers.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,416.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $20k to $71k (+262%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
96% of JONES GARDENS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $29k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JONES GARDENS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JONES GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JONES GARDENS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
64% of JONES GARDENS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $33k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JONES GARDENS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like JONES GARDENS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JONES GARDENS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JONES GARDENS?
- JONES GARDENS (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,277 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE ($48,777). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JONES GARDENS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $91,277 in grants to JONES GARDENS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JONES GARDENS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE is the largest funder on record, with $48,777 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JONES GARDENS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing