North Carolina · Private foundation
John M Belk Endowment
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.
- $15M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,880,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $379M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 71% of the organizations John M Belk Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 74 | $12M | 74% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $10M | 71% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $13M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $14M | 70% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $14M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $13M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $12M | 82% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National College Advising Corps Inc | $21,097,176 | 7 | 35% |
| Nc State University | $9,163,635 | 4 | n/a |
| Myfuturencinc | $6,500,000 | 5 | 37% |
| Educationnc | $5,503,000 | 6 | 86% |
| James B Hunt Jr Institute for Educational Leadership & Policy Fdn | $3,000,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Year Up Inc | $2,500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Inside Track Inc | $2,259,446 | 3 | 2% |
| Single Stop USA Inc | $1,668,010 | 2 | 0% |
| Latinx Education Center | $1,500,000 | 3 | 47% |
| Strada Education Foundation Inc | $1,462,491 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($30M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John M Belk Endowment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · State Employees Credit Union Foundation · North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · The Belk Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · The Robert P Holding Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About John M Belk Endowment
- How much does John M Belk Endowment give?
- John M Belk Endowment reported 86 grants totaling $14,691,485 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does John M Belk Endowment fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Philanthropy (17%), Employment (9%).
- Who are John M Belk Endowment's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National College Advising Corps Inc ($21M), Nc State University ($9.2M), Myfuturencinc ($6.5M).
- Does John M Belk Endowment fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John M Belk Endowment 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 John M Belk Endowment?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, State Employees Credit Union Foundation, North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation.
- Where is John M Belk Endowment based?
- John M Belk Endowment is based in NC.
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