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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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k20 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| ABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| REYNOLDA HOUSE | $2,000 |
| DARLINGTON SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| THE PROTESTANT CONGREGATION OF OCEAN REEF | $1,000 |
| SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| OLD SALEM INC | $1,000 |
| CROSSNORE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| FORSYTH JAIL AND PRISON MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $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 (FY18–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HUHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION2× · 2019–2020 · $38k · revenue +35%
- DSDarlington School Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +49%
- AOABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- HCHOLLINS COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $15k
- FSFAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +16%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Academy and College and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds ABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OLD SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH JAIL AND PRISON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WINSTON-SALEM AND FORSYTH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
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: 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
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 J & J Neely 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.