· Private foundation
Mike & Carolyn Jones Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKGREEN GARDENS | $22,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,100 |
| MEREDITH COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| TABOR CITY COMMITTEE OF 100 | $5,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH WALLACE NC | $2,500 |
| WELLSPRING CHURCH MYRTLE BEACH | $2,500 |
| NEW DIRECTIONS | $1,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS HOMES OF NC | $1,000 |
| COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| THE ART MUSEUM OF MYRTLE BEACH | $1,000 |
| HARRELLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK | $1,000 |
| SC TENNIS PATRONS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Mike & Carolyn Jones Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 23%.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBROOKGREEN GARDENS9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +52%
- TCTABOR CITY COMMITTEE OF 100 INC9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +180%
- CJCOLUMBUS JOBS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue ×98
Funded once
- SCSOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +70%
- WUWARSAW UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $1k
Compassion International Incorporatedone grant, 2024 · $650 · revenue +16%
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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
South carolina christian foundation exists to disciple the hearts of individuals toward biblical stewardship and proactive philanthropy in order to transform communities and advance the kingdom of god.
Coastal christian ministries exists to help prepare children to be disciples of the lord jesus christ. coastal christian ministries will honor god by teaching a desire for and love of christ in each student so he/she will want to exemplify…
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 64 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 BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TABOR CITY COMMITTEE OF 100 INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS JOBS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds MYRTLE BEACH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM READERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC ↗
- Who funds Scripture Union ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds HARRELLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
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: Waccamaw Community Foundation · United Way of Horry County Inc · Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach Sc · Carl W Meares Foundation Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mike & Carolyn Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike & Carolyn Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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