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J L Maxwell Jr Foundation at a glance

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J L Maxwell Jr Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$293k
Granted FY2026still arriving
11
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$704kEducation$449kReligion$272kHuman Services$234kYouth Development$224kPhilanthropy$162kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2026 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $279k
$29,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$49,425
ST PAUL METHODIST CHURCH$43,625
UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY$40,725
KITTY ASKINS HOSPICE CENTER$37,825
TUSCARORA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS$29,100
UNC MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NC$29,100
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$29,100
FOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLE$19,900
UNC KENAN FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL$8,200
WAYNE COUNTY SENIOR CENTER$3,600
WAYNE COUNTY RECOVERY CORPORATION$2,400
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNC MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NC: $29k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $49k → 18%Medical Foundation of NC: $27k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $36k → 18%MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NC: $26k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $35k → 18%UNC MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NC: $26k → 13%WAYNE ACTION TEAMS COMMUN HEALTH: $31k → 18%MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLIN: $25k → 13%WAYNE ACTION TEAMS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $30k → 18%Medical Foundation of NC: $25k → 13%WAYNE ACTION TEAMS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $30k → 18%MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NC - UNC: $25k → 13%Wayne Health Foundation: $30k → 18%MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NC: $25k → 13%WAYNE ACTION TEAM COMM HEALTH: $30k → 18%MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLIN: $24k → 13%TUSCARORA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $29k → 18%WAYNE HEALTH FOUNDATION WATCH: $29k → 18%Wayne Health Foundation: $28k → 18%WAYNE HEALTH FOUNDATIO WATCH: $28k → 18%TUSCARORA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $26k → 18%Wayne Health Foundation: $25k → 18%TUSCARORA - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $25k → 18%UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY: $41k → 18%KITTY ASKINS HOSPICE CENTER: $38k → 18%SALVATION ARMY: $38k → 18%UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY: $28k → 18%UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY: $28k → 18%UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY: $26k → 18%KITTYS ASKINS HOSPICE CENTER: $26k → 18%KITTY ASKINS HOSPICE CENTER: $26k → 18%KITTY ASKINS HOSPICE CENTER: $25k → 18%ST PAUL METHODIST CHURCH: $44k → 18%ST PAUL METHODIST CHURCH: $42k → 18%ST PAUL METHODIST CHURCH: $31k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $30k → 18%St Paul United Methodist: $30k → 18%ST PAUL METHODIST CHURCH: $30k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $29k → 18%St Paul United Methodist: $28k → 18%ST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $28k → 18%Tuscarora Council Boy Scouts: $27k → 18%TUSCARORA COUNCIL BOY SCOUNTS AMERI: $26k → 18%TUSCARORA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $25k → 18%TUSCARORA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS AMERIC: $25k → 18%Tuscarora Council Boy Scouts: $25k → 18%St Paul United Methodist: $25k → 18%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 20 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$2.1M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+23%

Still filing today

35%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • Davidson College
    10× · 2017–2026 · $253k · revenue +42%
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $174k · revenue +145%
  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    10× · 2017–2026 · $166k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • WA
    WAYNE ACTION TEAMS COMMUN HEALTH
    one grant, 2025 · $31k
  • WA
    WAYNE ACTION TEAM COMM HEALTH
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • WH
    WAYNE HEALTH FOUNDATION WATCH
    one grant, 2020 · $29k
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
Wayne Memorial Hospital Inc

Patients first - as we make decisions in our organization, we must always ensure our patients and their wellbeing are the forefront. quality health care - when we provide quality health care, we ensure we are doing the right thing, at the…

Health
2
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
3
Wayne County Development Alliance Inc

Enhance economic development

Community Improvement
4
Wayne County Community Foundation

The foundation invests in the community by growing its endowment, encouraging philanthropy & innovation, supporting charitable activities, and assessing & addressing community needs.

Philanthropy
5
Wayne Economic Development Council Inc

To maximize the development and utilization of the human and economic resources of the wayne county georgraphical area in order to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities and improve the welfare of people of the area.

—
6
Wayne Stem Academy

Provide a challenging learning environment in science, technology, engineering, and math to a diverse student population, enabling them to become problem-solving, peace-building, solution-focused citizens. the curriculum is designed to…

Education
7
Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

Promote, lead, unite, and serve members, businesses, and the community in order for wayne county to be a great place to live, learn, and do business.

—
8
The Wayne Hospital Foundation Inc

Wayne hospital foundation develops resources to support wayne hospital in providing high quality health care to the community. the resources are developed toward caring for new life, education and supporting the caregivers, ensuring a…

Education
9
Wayne Economic Development Corporation

The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…

Community Improvement
10
Wayne Memorial Hospital

It is the mission of wayne memorial hospital to provide quality healthcare with compassion, advocacy, respect, excellence, and service; to promote wellness in our community; and to be proactive in responding to our community's needs.

Health
11
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
12
Wrmc Hospital Operating Corporation

To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Wayne County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Old Waynesborough Commission Inc. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 29 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $253,075 · OtherSALVATION ARMYKITTY ASKINS HOSPICE CENTER: $218,525 · OtherKITTY ASKINS HOSPICE CENTERFOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $166,150 · OtherFOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGETUSCARORA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $153,800 · OtherTUSCARORA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSST PAUL METHODIST CHURCH: $146,425 · OtherST PAUL METHODIST CHURCHST PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $86,250 · OtherWAYNE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $83,200 · OtherSt Paul United Methodist: $83,000 · OtherWAYNE ACTION TEAMS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $60,300 · Other+14 more: $435,650 · Other+14 moreDavidson College: $253,300 · EducationDavidson CollegeUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $173,700 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION…WAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $17,500 · EducationUNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $202,325 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…Old Waynesborough Commission Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $4,000 · Health
Other$1,686,375Education$444,500Philanthropy$202,325Arts & Culture$5,000Health$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDavidson College: $253,300 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $202,325 over 10y, 2.8% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $173,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $166,150 over 10y, 13% of budgetWAYNE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $83,200 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetWAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WAYNE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Old Waynesborough Commission Inc ↗
  • Who funds DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗

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.

North Carolina Commun…M & J Foundation IncThe Borden Fund IncBorden FoundationR a Bryan Foundation …Southern Bank Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
North Carolina Community FoundationNC17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · M & J Foundation Inc · The Borden Fund Inc · Borden Foundation · R a Bryan Foundation Inc · Southern Bank Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 L Maxwell Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J L Maxwell Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 29 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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