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J & J Neely Foundation at a glance

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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
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

14
’18
17
’19
2
’20

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

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2019 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k20 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SENIOR SERVICES: $500 → 15%SENIOR SERVICES: $380 → 15%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1k → 15%CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY: $1k → 15%CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY: $1k → 15%YWCA OF WINSTON SALEM AND FORSYTH COUNTY: $500 → 15%ABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 15%ABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 16 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$142k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+185%

Still filing today

81%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HU
    HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $38k · revenue +35%
  • DS
    Darlington School Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +49%
  • AO
    ABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOLLINS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +185%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
2
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Anderson University

The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…

Education
5
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
10
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
11
William Jessup University

In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.

—
12
Greenville College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Academy and College; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $999,211 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAMFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $24,000 · OtherHOLLINS COLLEGE: $15,000 · Other+12 more: $13,250 · OtherHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $37,975 · EducationDarlington School Inc: $11,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $3,500 · EducationSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $200 · EducationABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $6,000 · Human ServicesCRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES INC: $880 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WINSTON-SALEM AND FORSYTH COUNTY: $500 · Human ServicesREYNOLDA HOUSE INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureOLD SALEM INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$999,211Other$92,250Education$54,675Human Services$10,380Arts & Culture$6,000Housing & Shelter$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 Fou…The Winston-Salem Fou…Flow Foundation IncThe Cannon Foundation…Foundation for the Ca…James T & Louise R Br…Forsyth Memorial Hosp…The Sara Smith Self F…Ta John W and Anna H …Reynolds Foundation 1…Triangle Community Fo…The Ayco Charitable F…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization J & J Neely Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J & J Neely Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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