· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of E J POPE & SON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| 3HC | $2,500 |
| MT OLIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| CARTERET HEALTH CARE | $2,500 |
| TUSCARORA BOY SCOUTS | $2,000 |
| RELAY OF LIFE WAYNE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| WAYNE PREGNANCY CENTER | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COA | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| AHOLD DELHAIZE USA FAMILY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Wayne County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wagon Tails Farm Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization E J Pope & Son Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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