· Private foundation
M & J Foundation Inc
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 $10k31 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE | $130,000 |
| SAMIRTIANS PURSE | $50,000 |
| NC STATE STUDY CENTER | $50,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STUDY CENTER | $50,000 |
| DUKE EYE CENTER | $16,250 |
| LEES MCRAE COLLEGE | $11,250 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF WAYNE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA TUSCARORA CO | $5,000 |
| GETHSEMANE GARDEN CHRISTIAN CENRE | $5,000 |
| JUSTICE MATTERS INC | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| ST DAVIDS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| 3HC | $5,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 95% of M & J Foundation Inc’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, 69% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 5% — 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 +24% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2022–2024 · $380k · revenue +18%
- WPWAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue ×11
JUSTICEMATTERS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE OF WAYENE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $125k
- YLYOUNG LIFE OF WAYNE COUNTRYone grant, 2020 · $95k
- DHDUKE HEALTHone grant, 2019 · $55k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is The Paramount Theatre Foundation the Paramount Theatre Foundation. 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 54 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 117 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICEMATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NC STATE STUDY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE CO INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE A KID FISHING 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: R a Bryan Foundation Inc · Borden Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Ellen & Munroe Best Family Foundation · Mid-Atlantic Foundation · Mount Olive Pickle Company Foundation · The Borden Fund Inc · Southern Bank Foundation · E J Pope & Son Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · J L Maxwell Jr 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 M & J Foundation Inc 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.