· Private foundation
Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $212,500 |
| CANINES FOR SERVICE | $200,000 |
| WARRIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| OPERATION LIGHT SHINE | $150,000 |
| CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| HOPE AGAINST TRAFFICKING | $75,000 |
| A21 CAMPAIGN INC | $75,000 |
| AWAKE | $50,000 |
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL | $40,000 |
| GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
Canines for Service Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $950k · revenue +89%- LCLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $848k · revenue +59%
- HAHOPE AGAINST TRAFFICKING5× · 2021–2025 · $408k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- LCLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE REDEEMERone grant, 2020 · $250k
- SBST BERNADETTE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $200k
- FTFIRST THINGS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $185k
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.
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
To rescue abandoned, neglected and traumatized animals and find these animals their furever homes.
Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…
Providing highly trained service dogs for wounded united states military veterans in need of assistance
Raising and training service dogs for disabled military vets.
Industry leading non-profit concentrating on saving the lives of unwanted, abused and abandoned cats and dogs from the local community and overcrowded shelters from across the country, while upholding best practices and the highest of…
Helping wounded soldiers
The corporation's mission is to improve the quality of life for people and dogs through training assistance dogs, pet therapy dogs, and owning and operating an off-leash dog park. the corporation also assists with enhancing the quality of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tim Tebow Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Soar. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 25 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 Canines for Service Inc ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AGAINST TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST THINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF SHELTER INT'L INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION LIGHT SHINE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT AN ANGEL ↗
- Who funds LACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Edwin and Jeanette May 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, a single department, or state — 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.