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Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation

Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,676,131 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,555,694). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$25M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$43M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 99%
01What it does

What Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation does

Program

  1. The organization provides subsidized companion animal boarding, behavior support, and veterinary services to the animal rescue community and operates a 24/7/365 specialty neonate kitten nursery.

    $5,572,177 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.0M) Expenses 100 ($177k) Net assets 100 ($7.9M)2018 Revenue 100 ($8.1M) Expenses 302 ($533k) Net assets 197 ($15M)2019 Revenue 116 ($9.3M) Expenses 265 ($469k) Net assets 233 ($18M)2020 Revenue 64 ($5.1M) Expenses 1620 ($2.9M) Net assets 262 ($21M)2021 Revenue 132 ($11M) Expenses 2911 ($5.1M) Net assets 332 ($26M)2022 Revenue 54 ($4.4M) Expenses 3199 ($5.7M) Net assets 315 ($25M)2023 Revenue 62 ($5.0M) Expenses 2937 ($5.2M) Net assets 313 ($25M)2024 Revenue 313 ($25M) Expenses 3168 ($5.6M) Net assets 545 ($43M)
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Revenue (313)Expenses (3168)Net assets (545)Peer revenue range

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 $27M to $45M (+67%).

$7.9M
$15M
$23M
$28M
$32M
$28M
$27M
$45M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed66667666
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·0000110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5.1M → $77k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation’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

Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

99% of Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation'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 $85k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 235 animals nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation?
Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,676,131 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,555,694). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $10,676,131 in grants to Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,555,694 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Virginia B and David R Jontes Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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