· Private foundation
R a Bryan 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 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 $10k15 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $411k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NCSU STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| NCSU SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $200,000 |
| CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY-STUDENT UNION | $100,000 |
| VIDANT MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PITT COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS WILMINGTON | $50,000 |
| 3HC | $40,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| THE FOUR DAY MOVEMENT | $25,000 |
| WATCH | $25,000 |
| AQUARIUM SOCIETY OF NC | $25,000 |
| RYE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $25,000 |
| CONVERTING HEARTS | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +33% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 9 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $954k · revenue +157%
- JAJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $400k · revenue +153%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC4× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- WCWAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +19%
- NCNorth Carolina Aquanum Societyone grant, 2017 · $25k
- WCWAYNE COUNTY RECOVERY CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Provide a challenging learning environment in science, technology, engineering, and math to a diverse student population, enabling them to become problem-solving, peace-building, solution-focused citizens. the curriculum is designed to…
Enhance economic development
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
Promote, lead, unite, and serve members, businesses, and the community in order for wayne county to be a great place to live, learn, and do business.
To operate a charter school in north carolina
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
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…
To build public awareness of and provide funding to the nc museum of history.
Wayne health foundation conducts fundraising activities to generate revenue to support wayne memorial hospital and wayne health corporations and to promote the welfare of the citizens of wayne county.
How this is measured
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 120 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 NC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE CO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · M & J Foundation Inc · Borden Foundation · Mount Olive Pickle Company Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ellen & Munroe Best Family Foundation · Mid-Atlantic Foundation · The Borden Fund Inc · Southern Bank Foundation · United Way of Wayne County Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization R a Bryan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R a Bryan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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