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The business of thinking for a living.
I study how institutions succeed and advise organizations on strategy, mostly by working through public questions that resist a quick answer. Then I write about the ideas underneath the work.
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I am a researcher, author, and consultant. My work runs from the academy to the Texas Capitol to the institutions I advise, and it holds to one habit: establish how organizations and public systems actually behave before arguing about how they should.
My doctoral research on what drives organizational and nonprofit success, pursued at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education, runs alongside my institutional and advisory work, and each keeps correcting the other. Both feed a body of writing on policy, philanthropy, and the discipline of thinking carefully in public.
- Lead Finance & Economics Analyst, House Research Organization (HRO)
- Lead Local Government Analyst, Senate Research Center (SRC)
- Executive Director, Generation Hope Program, under Tarrant County Commissioner Roy C. Brooks
- Co-founder, Measure, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and public education organization
- Doctoral Candidate, Vanderbilt University
What I Build
A quick tour of what I build: open-data tools and live product demonstrations, all publicly reachable. Client work and research portals are shared directly rather than listed here. Each card links directly to the tool or demo.
Public, Free and Open Products (jonathanlindavis.com)
GIFT
An interactive open-data tool that maps nonprofit grantmaking from IRS Form 990 filings: which funders give to which organizations, and how much.
Open →Interlock
A companion open-data view of shared nonprofit leadership and board interlocks, built on the same 990-filings dataset as GIFT.
Open →Fellowships4Free
A searchable, continually-growing database of 3,400+ fellowships and funding opportunities, filterable by field and audience.
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