· Private foundation
Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 25 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 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 ↗
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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin and Jeanette May Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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