· Private foundation
E J Pope & Son Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE | $20,000 |
| WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MT OLIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $2,500 |
| 3HC | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| CARTERET HEALTH CARE | $2,500 |
| TUSCARORA BOY SCOUTS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COA | $1,000 |
| NCPCM BUDDY POPE SCHOLARSHIP | $1,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN CANCER CARE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WAYNE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| RELAY OF LIFE WAYNE COUNTY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +41%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2020–2022 · $31k · revenue +78%- WCWAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC3× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY-RELAYone grant, 2019 · $11k
- BSBOY SCOUTSone grant, 2019 · $10k
- DNDR NELSON MISSIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Patients first - as we make decisions in our organization, we must always ensure our patients and their wellbeing are the forefront. quality health care - when we provide quality health care, we ensure we are doing the right thing, at the…
To provide quality,comprehensive primary health care services that are accessible, affordable and responsive to the communities that we serve.
Providing access to quality primary health care for all.
The mission of Wayne Hospital Corporation is to provide outpatient and inpatient services at a level to rank prominently on a regional and national basis for quality of care, patient satisfaction, and spirituality support. The hospital…
Wayne hospital foundation develops resources to support wayne hospital in providing high quality health care to the community. the resources are developed toward caring for new life, education and supporting the caregivers, ensuring a…
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…
The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.
Promote, lead, unite, and serve members, businesses, and the community in order for wayne county to be a great place to live, learn, and do business.
To maximize the development and utilization of the human and economic resources of the wayne county georgraphical area in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the welfare of people of the area.
To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Warriors ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TUSCARORA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE CO INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Southern Bank Foundation · M & J Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Mid-Atlantic Foundation · Mount Olive Pickle Company Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · R a Bryan Foundation Inc · Borden Foundation · Iskander Family Foundation · Ellen & Munroe Best Family Foundation · United Way of Wayne County Inc · The Borden Fund Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization E J Pope & Son Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E J Pope & Son Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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