· Private foundation
Mike & Carolyn Jones Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of MIKE & CAROLYN JONES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,000 |
| HARRELLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE ART MUSEUM OF MYRTLE BEACH | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS HOMES OF NC | $1,000 |
| GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK | $1,000 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-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 6% of Mike & Carolyn Jones Foundation’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, 29% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 23% — 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 +28% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you 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
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
- 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%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unc Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 64 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 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 SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
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: 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
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 Mike & Carolyn Jones 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.
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.
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