· Private foundation
John Rex 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 $10k19 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $254k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAKE COUNTY SMART START | $254,100 |
| NC COUNTS COALITION | $175,000 |
| THE GIFTED ARTS INC | $150,000 |
| 100 BLACK MEN TRIANGLE EAST INC | $150,000 |
| SMART BUS | $150,000 |
| THE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE | $150,000 |
| THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY | $75,000 |
| FIESTA CRISTIANA MISSION CONGREGATION | $75,000 |
| LEARNING TOGETHER INC | $75,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKYAPPALACHIA FUNDERS NETWORK | $75,000 |
| EDUCATION JUSTICE ALLIANCE | $75,000 |
| HAVEN HOUSE SERVICES | $75,000 |
| EL PUEBLO INC | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) 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.
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 6% of John Rex 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, 99% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 16 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $334k 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
- WCWAKE COUNTY SMART START INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +39%
MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +92%
HAVEN HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $840k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- NNNCSU NATURAL LEARNING INITIATIVEone grant, 2017 · $213k
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLEYOUTH THRIVEone grant, 2020 · $180k
- UHUNC HEALTHY SOLUTIONSone grant, 2017 · $172k
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.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
One wake's purpose is to build relationships across the wake county north carolina area, to identify community concerns and or needs, and to work together as a united power for human dignity, social justice, and the greater good. one wake…
To strengthen all families by providing parenting information and education and by preventing adolescent pregnancy.
Our mission is to leverage the power of community to address systemic causes of homelessness through coordinated response, education, data, and advocacy.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…
Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, training, newsletters, fact sheets, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rwa Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 131 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 WAKE COUNTY SMART START INC ↗
- Who funds MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS ACCESS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLM FAMILIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Education Justice Alliance ↗
- Who funds SE RALEIGH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Evolve Mentoring ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds TheGifted Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EL PUEBLO INC ↗
- Who funds NC COUNTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Smart Bus Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds PASSAGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WADE EDWARDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Duke University Health System Inc · Gipson Family Foundation · Childtrust Foundation
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 Rex 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.
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.