The Jones Family Foundation
St Paul, MN · EIN 45-3069865. Reported 67 grants totalling $3,361,923 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Jones Family Foundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in education -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE B11).
- How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 22% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 60% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $480,713. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Wing Youth Outreach Program Inc | Red Wing, MN | $741,713 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Inc | Red Wing, MN | $456,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Red Wing Art Association | Red Wing, MN | $339,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Minnesota State College Southeast Foundation | Winona, MN | $269,312 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Serveminnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Red Wing Downtown Council Main Street Inc | Red Wing, MN | $181,134 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Red Wing Ignite | Red Wing, MN | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of Red Wing | Red Wing, MN | $117,666 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hispanic Outreach Program of Goodhue County | Red Wing, MN | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Creekstone Montessori School | Red Wing, MN | $108,573 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Red Wing Family YMCA | Red Wing, MN | $101,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Independent School District #256 | Red Wing, MN | $96,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Care Clinic | Red Wing, MN | $81,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hope Coalition | Red Wing, MN | $78,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Universal Music Center Inc | Red Wing, MN | $73,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hope and Harbor | Red Wing, MN | $42,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Goodhue Wabasha & Pierce Counties | Red Wing, MN | $37,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Red Wing, MN | $32,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Covenant Church Red Wing Mn | Red Wing, MN | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Red Wing Innovation Incubator Inc | Red Wing, MN | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance | Red Wing, MN | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hiawatha Valley Mental Health Center | Winona, MN | $14,680 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sculptures Eau Claire Inc | Eau Claire, WI | $13,040 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Goodhue County Education District #6051 | Red Wing, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Springboard for the Arts | Saint Paul, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pottery Museum Red Wing Inc | Red Wing, MN | $9,055 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Red Wing Area Seniors Inc | Red Wing, MN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Faith in Action in Red Wing | Red Wing, MN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| River Bluff Humane Society Inc | Red Wing, MN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Lutheran Church | Red Wing, MN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
19 of 30 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Red Wing Youth Outreach Program Inc
MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES - Red Wing Arts Association
FOR THE HONORING DAKOTA INITIATIVE - HE MNI CAN WACIPI AND NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL TRAINING; GENERAL SUPPORT - Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Inc
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN; HONORARIUMS; OUTREACH PROGRAMS - Riseup Partnership
FOR EVERY HAND JOINED; GENERAL SUPPORT, ASPIRE/PRIDE INITIATIVE - Creekstone Montessori School
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SCHOLARSHIPS - Red Wing Downtown Council Main Street Inc
TO SUPPORT REDEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE - HALLSTRM'S; RETAIL CHALLENGE; SUPPORT THE DPC-DTMS; GENERAL SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 30 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $1,282,171 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 15 | $467,010 | $23,000 |
| 2023 | 17 | $810,294 | $38,221 |
| 2024 | 18 | $802,448 | $36,625 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $30,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Minnesota.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Jones Family Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 370 Wabasha Street North 300, St Paul, MN, 55102.
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