North Carolina · 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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2024
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $254,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $72M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations John Rex Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k 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 | 41 | $2.3M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $2.4M | 37% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $2.6M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $2.3M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $2.2M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $2.5M | 58% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $1.9M | 36% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $2.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wake County Smart Start Inc | $2,168,458 | 8 | 3% |
| Wake County Public Schools | $1,515,026 | 5 | n/a |
| Marbles Kids Museum | $1,136,530 | 6 | 5% |
| Haven House Inc | $839,636 | 8 | 4% |
| Arts Access Incorporated | $737,604 | 8 | 77% |
| Plm Families Together Inc | $731,967 | 6 | 12% |
| Education Justice Alliance | $715,000 | 4 | 31% |
| Se Raleigh Promise Inc | $463,074 | 4 | 35% |
| Evolve Mentoring | $452,370 | 4 | 84% |
| United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc | $425,992 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John Rex Endowment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 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: 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
How this is measured
About John Rex Endowment
- How much does John Rex Endowment give?
- John Rex Endowment reported 48 grants totaling $2,316,024 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does John Rex Endowment fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (13%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are John Rex Endowment's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wake County Smart Start Inc ($2.2M), Wake County Public Schools ($1.5M), Marbles Kids Museum ($1.1M).
- Does John Rex Endowment fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John Rex 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 Rex Endowment?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is John Rex Endowment based?
- John Rex Endowment is based in NC.
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