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The W. Alton Jones Foundation was a charitable foundation and a sponsor of environmental causes. It was originally involved in sponsoring the arts particularly theatre.The foundation was started in 1944 by W. Alton Pete Jones an oil executive and chairman of the board of Cities Service Company. In 2001 the Charlottesville Virginia-based 56-year-old W. Alton Jones Foundation suddenly dissolved.