Larry Jones is a retired chemist dedicated to the furthering of humanist thought.

Jones received his undergraduate degree from Middlebury College and attended graduate school at Villanova University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Both the Secular Student Alliance and Camp Quest were organizations that benefitted from these grants.

August Brunsman, executive director of the Secular Student Alliance, states that Jones was “essentially one of the first donors to significantly support the SSA,” and that the IHS grant was vital to the survival of the organization.

[citation needed] In August 2013, Jones was honored by the Institute for Humanist Studies for his contributions to humanism.