· Private foundation
Ellen & Munroe Best Family 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $11,619 |
| THE JANE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PITT COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| WAYNE LITERACY CONNECTIONS OF WAYNE | $1,500 |
| CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| SAFECHILD | $1,000 |
| UNC HUMANITIES FOR WAYNE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| ROOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF WAYNE COUNTY | $500 |
| COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN OF GOLDSBORO | $500 |
| STAGE STRUCK | $500 |
| PRINCETON HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Ellen & Munroe Best Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 0%.
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 +16% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 7 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $57k · revenue +6%
Elon University5× · 2018–2022 · $42k · revenue +42%- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $35k
- WCWAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $20k
- FOFRIENDS OF OAKDALE CEMETERY INCone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -32%
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.
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To preserve, share, and support the full unique history and culture of wake forest - college, town, and university; and in cooperation with wake forest university to create a living laboratory of academic inquiry into civic, community, and…
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Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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It is the mission of wayne memorial hospital to provide quality healthcare with compassion, advocacy, respect, excellence, and service; to promote wellness in our community; and to be proactive in responding to our community's needs.
To provide the patient and the community a system for the delivery of high quality health care with the same standard of care regardless of economic status, age, sex, race, or religion.
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How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 83 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 WAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JANE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OAKDALE CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN OF GOLDSBORO 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: R a Bryan Foundation Inc · M & J Foundation Inc · Borden Foundation · Mid-Atlantic Foundation · The Borden Fund Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Mount Olive Pickle Company Foundation · Southern Bank Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · E J Pope & Son Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ellen & Munroe Best Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellen & Munroe Best Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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