· Private foundation
Isley Family 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 $10k18 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $250k+1 grant · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECU FOUNDATION | $510,000 |
| ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COASTAL PLAIN | $10,000 |
| DIX PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| STEP UP MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| VIDANT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $1,050 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NC EAST | $1,000 |
| RECESS GAMES USA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| VOCAL | $1,000 |
| SOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE | $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 (FY20–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +25% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $870k · revenue +25%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $121k · revenue +45%- SMSTEPUP MINISTRY3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- ULUS LBM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +41%
- MRMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +13%
- DCDURHAM COUNTY COMMUNITY LIVING PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +30%
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 mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Please see schedule o
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Baldrick's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina Guardian ad Litem Advocate Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 46 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 EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds US LBM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM COUNTY COMMUNITY LIVING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG ROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NC EAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Guardian ad Litem Advocate Fund ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds MRCHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · O Temple Sloan Jr Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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 Isley Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.