How much does Jacobs Preyer Foundation give?

Jacobs Preyer Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $86,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jacobs Preyer Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Human Services (15%), Arts & Culture (14%).

Who are Jacobs Preyer Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($507k), The Women's Center Inc ($167k), North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation ($76k).

Does Jacobs Preyer Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jacobs Preyer 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 Jacobs Preyer Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, North Carolina Community Foundation.

Where is Jacobs Preyer Foundation based?

Jacobs Preyer Foundation is based in NC.

Jacobs Preyer Foundation

Jacobs Preyer Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jacobs Preyer 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.

$87k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

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 2024.

Education$641kHuman Services$182kArts & Culture$162kReligion$60kEnvironment$50kPhilanthropy$29kHealth$28kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $37k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NORTH CAROLINA UM CAMP & RETREAT MINISTRIES INC	$50,000
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$7,000
NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO - WUNC	$5,000
KIDZU CHILDREN'S MUSEUM	$3,500
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM	$3,000
NC BOTANICAL GARDEN	$2,500
COMPASS CENTER	$2,000
NORTH CAROLINA ARTS FOUNDATION	$2,000
FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN TO SEA TRAIL	$1,000
BALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC	$1,000
HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL	$1,000
PUBLIC SCHOOLS FIRST NORTH CAROLINA	$1,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES	$1,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NC	$1,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

$1.0M · 33 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

+34%

Still filing today

73%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

TW
THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC
5× · 2018–2024 · $167k · revenue +6%
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION
6× · 2017–2022 · $76k · revenue +121%
Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc
4× · 2018–2022 · $16k · revenue +110%

Funded once

OC
ORANGE COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +34%
UL
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
one grant, 2017 · $10k
TE
THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +21%

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.

North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

Arts & Culture

North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture

North Carolina Zoological Society Inc

To champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future.

Animals

North Carolina Chamber

The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…

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North Carolina Bar Association

The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…

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Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

The Durham Museum

Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.

Arts & Culture

University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc

Uncsa foundation's primary purpose is to financially support the advancement and achievement of the students, faculty, and staff of the university of north carolina school of the arts. the uncsa foundation strives to support the strategic…

Education

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

North Carolina Symphony Foundation

To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.

Arts & Culture

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

North Carolina Association of School Administrators

To support public school adminisrators in north carolina through services in communications, professional development, and public policy.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

40 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. 40 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

34/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$949,062Arts & Culture$107,570Education$62,500Environment$33,378Philanthropy$21,500Crime & Legal$10,000Human Services$8,500

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

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC42.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Strowd Roses Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Shared Visions Foundation Inc · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Randleigh 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 Jacobs Preyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacobs Preyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home