· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $240k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $262k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+11 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| College Advising Corps | $2,880,000 |
| Foundation For The Carolinas | $2,738,000 |
| James B Hunt Jr Institute For Educational Leadership And Policy | $1,500,000 |
| Strada Education Foundation Inc | $1,462,491 |
| Myfuturenc Inc | $1,250,000 |
| EducationNC | $1,070,000 |
| Presbyterian Hospital | $522,400 |
| Latinxed Education Center | $500,000 |
| Year Up | $500,000 |
| Land Of Sky Regional Council | $300,000 |
| North Carolina Community Colleges | $300,000 |
| Haywood Community College | $127,500 |
| North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities | $125,000 |
| Wayne Community College | $125,000 |
| Robeson Community College | $80,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of John M Belk Endowment’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 95% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
34 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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
- NCNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $21M · revenue +27% · 35% of their budget
- EEDUCATIONNC6× · 2018–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +92% · 86% of their budget
LATINX EDUCATION CENTER3× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +343% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- EEdNCone grant, 2023 · $1.1M
- CPCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE SERVICES CORPORATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $783k · revenue +527%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue +214%
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.
To fund academic scholarships for the young people in the state of north carolina to pursue post-secondary education trade and technical studies, undergraduate studies and graduate studies.
The north carolina community colleges foundation, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1986 to support the mission of the nc community college system.
The Alamance Community College Foundation exists to aid students with a demonstrated financial need in reaching their educational goals, while supporting the mission of ACC.
Sparknc empowers students to discover careers in high-tech fields like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, software development and computer systems engineering. we help schools move away from traditional classes…
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.
Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educationnc and the most unlike its peers is The Roc Charlotte Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 125 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 NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds MYFUTURENCINC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONNC ↗
- Who funds JAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds INSIDE TRACK INC ↗
- Who funds SINGLE STOP USA INC ↗
- Who funds LATINX EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE SERVICES CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds The ROC Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 John M Belk Endowment 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.
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.