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Ely J Perry Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $41,531 |
| FAITH FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $33,300 |
| THE REFUGE | $29,850 |
| HOPE PREPATORY SCHOOL | $28,333 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $17,150 |
| EPIC | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| NC STUDY CENTER | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,150 |
| COMMUNITY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS | $5,100 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $5,000 |
| LIFT UP THE VULNERABLE | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $4,900 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| CAROLINA STUDY CENTER | $4,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of your 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 +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- HPHOPE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC5× · 2019–2023 · $51k · revenue +262%
CAROLINA CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +191%- ECEAST CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA7× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- LFLCC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MOMINISTRIES OF MERCYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- LCLOUISBURG COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +14%
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.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
The school's mission is to train each student in a Godly manner in the areas of social, spiritual, and academic development.
In accordance with the mandate of matthew 28:19-20 and 2 timothy 2:2, alaska bible college seeks to train servants who lead with christlike character by 1.) nurturing students in bible-based, academic programs that solidify their christian…
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Our mission is to partner with christian parents in providing a quality education integrated with a biblical world view that will prepare the students for a life of service to the lord jesus christ.
It is the mission of norfolk christian schools to equip students spiritually, intellectually, and physically to love god and to serve him as christ's ambassadors in the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Lenoir County Spca Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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. 37 of the 96 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 HOPE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LENOIR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA ↗
- Who funds SON SET MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Royal Corporation ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds ANGEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds LIFT UP THE VULNERABLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESTORATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE GATE OF LENOIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Harvey-McNairy Foundation Inc · The Sylvester Family Foundation Inc · Barnhill Family Foundation · The Harold H Bate Foundation Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy 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 Ely J Perry 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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