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J & J Neely Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$68k
Granted FY2019
23
Grants FY2019
23
Organizations funded FY2019
35%
First-time grantees FY2019
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97% of J & J Neely Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year J & J Neely Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $68k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

14
’18
17
’19
2
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 23
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 35% of the organizations J & J Neely Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201923$68k35%
FY201821$72kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Philanthropy$1.0MEducation$72kReligion$43kHealth$8kHuman Services$7kArts & Culture$6kCrime & Legal$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget J & J Neely Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHollins University Corporation: $37,975 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDarlington School Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetReynolda House Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWake Forest University: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalem Academy and College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Ministries: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOcean Reef Chapel Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOld Salem Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Control Ministry Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForsyth Jail and Prison Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSenior Services Inc: $880 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Summit School Incorporated: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Reynolds American FoundationNC27.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Reynolds American Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Flow Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · James T & Louise R Broyhilll Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · The Sara Smith Self Foundation Inc · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About J & J Neely Foundation

How much does J & J Neely Foundation give?
J & J Neely Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $67,730 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does J & J Neely Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (88%), Education (6%), Religion (4%).
Who are J & J Neely Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: Hollins University Corporation ($38k), United Way of Forsyth County Inc ($24k), Darlington School Inc ($11k).
Does J & J Neely Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does J & J Neely Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as J & J Neely Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Reynolds American Foundation, The Winston-Salem Foundation, Flow Foundation Inc.
Where is J & J Neely Foundation based?
J & J Neely Foundation is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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