· Private foundation
Michael and Karen Schley Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $238k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC JUSTICE CENTER | $102,500 |
| KONGONI NETWORK COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION | $80,000 |
| NORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC | $55,000 |
| MILLBROOK MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL PTSA | $14,400 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THE IFMA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAITH MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| SAINT ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 74% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 26% that went abroad ($370k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $322k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 26% of all-years giving ($370k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +150%- HCHOPE COLLEGE5× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +25%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KENYA INC2× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +76%
Funded once
Loaves and Fishes Ministry Incone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -3%- HHHELPING HAND MISSIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
A PLACE AT THE TABLEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +88%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christ-centered, college preparatory, academic program.
The hope venture exists to bring hope and dignity to the most disadvantaged people through education and health projects.
The mission is committed to fostering hope and empowering relationships with people of nicaragua through sustainable programs in education, health care, community and ecological development, and ecological sustainability, and by supporting…
It is the mission of norfolk christian schools to equip students spiritually, intellectually, and physically to love god and to serve him as christ's ambassadors in the world.
To educate a diverse body of students to thrive in a college setting and beyond.
Northpoint college seeks to make a demonstrably positive impact on the faith communities it serves by facilitating an educational experience consistent with the mission and evidenced by low graduate indebtedness, the quality and…
At anehope, our mission is to facilitate bright children from refugee and less privileged communities to access quality education. we are driven by a deep desire to empower these students, transform their lives, and create positive change…
To bring about civic betterment and social improvements.
School of hope foundation was formed to conduct fundraising activities to support st. aloysius gonzaga high school located in nairobi serving kids from the kibera slum.
To mobilize and equip christians to become agents of spiritual and socio-economic transformation in africa.
To train pastors/leaders in africa who have little or no formal training and resources. teach them how to study and prepare bible-based messages using the thompson chain reference study bible and to provide bible to trained pastors/leaders.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STAFF OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONALS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IFMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KENYA INC ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michael and Karen Schley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael and Karen Schley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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