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John William Pope Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
259
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Public Benefit$35MEducation$22MSocial Science$9.4MHealth$5.7MCivil Rights$5.6MArts & Culture$5.0MHuman Services$3.6MCrime & Legal$3.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 259 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k160 grants · $3.7M
  • $50k–250k60 grants · $4.7M
  • $250k+19 grants · $6.7M
$25,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$121M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC$500,000
ASHEVILLE SCHOOL$500,000
NC ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC$500,000
ECONOMIC POLICY INNOVATION CENTER$500,000
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION$328,250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $25k → 11%FAMILY ROOM FOSTER CARE RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF HOPE: $50k → 20%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $25k → 11%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $25k → 11%CLASSICAL LIBERALS IN THE CAROLINAS INC: $25k → 10%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 11%CLASSICAL LIBERALS IN THE CAROLINAS INC: $25k → 10%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF HOPE: $50k → 20%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $25k → 11%CLASSICAL LIBERALS IN THE CAROLINAS: $15k → 10%TURNING POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $40k → 20%CLASSICAL LIBERALS IN THE CAROLINAS: $15k → 10%SHEPHERD YOUTH RANCH: $15k → 11%TURNING POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 20%TURNING POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 20%TURNING POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 20%TURNING POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 20%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $27k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $25k → 8%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $25k → 14%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $15k → 8%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $15k → 8%TAMMY LYNN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION DBA TAMMY LYNN CENTER (TLC): $20k → 8%TAMMY LYNN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%STEPUP MINISTRY: $30k → 8%STEPUP MINISTRY: $30k → 8%STEPUP MINISTRY: $30k → 8%STEPUP MINISTRY: $30k → 8%STEPUP MINISTRY: $30k → 8%STEPUP MINISTRY: $25k → 8%STEPUP MINISTRY: $20k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $50k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT THE: $35k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT THE: $30k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT THE: $30k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $25k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT THE: $25k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $25k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $25k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $20k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $20k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$91M · 247 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

247 repeat relationships — 155 still active in FY2025, 92 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

247
160

Total granted

$91M
$8.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+20%

Still filing today

73%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • TJ
    THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $23M · revenue +50% · 82% of their budget
  • AS
    ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +12%
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • AF
    Americans for Prosperity Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $1.8M · revenue -76%
  • N(
    NCSU (NORTH CAROLINA STATE FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2023 · $266k
  • FP
    Freedom Partners Institute
    one grant, 2017 · $250k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
North Carolina Chamber

The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…

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2
Nc Budget & Tax Center

As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, we work to document and analyze fiscal and economic conditions in partnership with community leaders and north carolinians with lived experience of poverty to advance systemic solutions through…

Civil Rights
3
Center for American Progress

The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…

Civil Rights
4
American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation Inc

The aclu of north carolina dares to create a more perfect union - beyond one person, party, or side. our mission is to realize this promise of the united states and north carolina constitutions for all and expand the reach of their…

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5
Unc Free Speech Alliance Inc

Unc alumni free speech alliance, inc. supports and defends free speech, academic freedom, and viewpoint diversity at university of north carolina, chapel hill.

Education
6
Furman University

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.

Education
7
Barton College

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…

Education
8
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.

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9
North Carolina Council On Economic Education Inc

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…

Social Science
10
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ava Gardner Museum Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Health Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Construc…Dance Arts OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Military Veterans SupportChristian Youth CampsAnimal Rescue and ShelterEquine Therapy ProgramsImmigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…Community Arts CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr16%9%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr12%34%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr14%12%20–35yr12%48%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%3/275
the rest of the field
15%
7,955/52,905

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.

04the grantee network

265 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. 265 of the 447 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
77
Early backer (in before they grew)
257/265
Grantees still filing
185/265
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC — $23,148,973 · OtherTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INCInstitute for Humane Studies — $3,400,000 · OtherInstitute for Humane Studies+118 more — $29,131,980 · Other+118 moreASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC — $3,937,500 · EducationASHEVILLE SCHOOL IN…UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $3,559,999 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATI…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH…AMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT — $950,000 · EducationAMERICAN REDISTRICT…RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL — $925,000 · EducationRAVENSCROFT SCHOOLTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $795,000 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY — $575,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $548,000 · Education+24 more — $4,132,096 · Education+24 moreAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $1,750,000 · Social ScienceMercatus Center Inc — $1,565,000 · Social ScienceECONOMIC POLICY INNOVATION CENTER INC — $1,000,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $985,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH — $290,000 · Social ScienceTHE INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP — $225,000 · Social Science+1 more — $160,000 · Social ScienceCIVITAS INSTITUTE INC — $2,470,000 · Civil RightsSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $1,050,000 · Civil RightsActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty — $575,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $415,000 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE — $235,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $185,000 · Civil Rights+5 more — $520,000 · Civil RightsCATO INSTITUTE — $1,045,000 · Public BenefitADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $665,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $380,000 · Public BenefitLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC — $340,500 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH — $320,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $310,000 · Public BenefitTAX FOUNDATION — $265,000 · Public BenefitFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC — $245,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $190,000 · Public BenefitTHE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL — $2,083,274 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $425,000 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER — $310,000 · PhilanthropyDonors Trust Inc — $250,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $318,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC — $895,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA FAMILY POLICY COUNCIL — $690,000 · Human ServicesTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT — $255,000 · Human ServicesSTEPUP MINISTRY — $220,000 · Human ServicesTHE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $142,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POINT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $120,000 · Human ServicesCLASSICAL LIBERALS IN THE CAROLINAS — $115,029 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC — $115,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PARTNERS OF HOPE INC — $100,000 · Human Services+2 more — $145,000 · Human Services
Other$55,680,953Education$16,422,595Social Science$5,975,000Civil Rights$5,450,000Public Benefit$4,510,500Philanthropy$3,386,274Human Services$2,947,029

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC — $23,148,973 over 8y, 82% of budgetASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC — $3,937,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $3,559,999 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies — $3,400,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCIVITAS INSTITUTE INC — $2,470,000 over 4y, 71% of budgetTHE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL — $2,083,274 over 5y, 89% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $1,750,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $1,565,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $1,050,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $1,045,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $1,035,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INNOVATION CENTER INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $985,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT — $950,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetRAVENSCROFT SCHOOL — $925,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC — $895,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW — $812,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $795,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $785,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA FAMILY POLICY COUNCIL — $690,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $665,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE — $645,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITY — $640,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY — $575,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty — $575,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetTHE JESSE HELMS CENTER FOUNDATION — $553,333 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $548,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATION — $515,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $500,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION — $470,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $465,529 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $425,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES — $415,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $415,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPositive Childhood Alliance North Carolina — $390,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $380,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetParents for Educational Freedom in NC — $365,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetSECU FAMILY HOUSE AT UNC HOSPITALS — $364,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetCAROLINA BALLET INC — $350,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC — $340,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $340,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH — $320,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $315,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL — $310,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES — $310,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budget
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 THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
  • Who funds CIVITAS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES G MARTIN CENTER FOR ACADEMIC RENEWAL ↗
  • Who funds Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INNOVATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ↗
  • Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FAMILY POLICY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ↗
  • Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
  • Who funds THE JESSE HELMS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH 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.

Triangle Community Fo…The Lynde and Harry B…Donors Trust IncNorth Carolina Commun…Sarah Scaife Foundati…Bradley Impact Fund I…The Cannon Foundation…Charles Koch Foundati…W Trent Ragland Jr Fo…The Searle Freedom Tr…Adolph Coors Foundati…Bell Koonce Burnette …
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC92.3× affinity65 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · Adolph Coors Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette 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 William Pope Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to John William Pope Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John William Pope Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 447 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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