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John R & Carolyn J Maness Family Foundation - C/O Eton Advisors L P
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of JOHN R & CAROLYN J MANESS FAMILY FOUNDATION - C/O ETON ADVISORS L P’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $23,000 |
| UVA - CURRY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| CANTERBURY SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| LANDON SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL INC | $11,000 |
| PRIMARY DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| STONE RIDGE SCHOOL OF THE SACRED HEART | $10,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VA MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HILLWOOD MUSEUM & GARDENS | $5,000 |
| UNCG - BRYAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $4,550 |
| URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY | $4,000 |
| ARTS & SCIENCE FOUNDATION UNC-CH | $3,250 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- LSLANDON SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +48%
- CHCONCORD HILL SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +59%
- THTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- ASALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- UMUVA - MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE MONROE HALLone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
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.
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.
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…
The raleigh school is an independent co-educational day school serving children from 18 months through fifth grade.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
To educate students in transitional kindergarten to grade twelve within the framework of christian faith and conviction--teaching the classical tools of learning; providing a rich yet unhurried education; and communicating truth, goodness,…
To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 50 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 13% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 89 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 LANDON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONCORD HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PRIMARY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RALEIGH INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Well-Spring Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TAMMY LYNN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Chaucer Charitable Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · William C Ethridge Foundation Inc · Bell Cook Family Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle 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 R & Carolyn J Maness Family Foundation - C/O Eton Advisors L P 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.
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.
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