· Private foundation
Seby B Jones Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $550k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $220k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIDGE ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH | $250,000 |
| THE JOSHUA FUND | $70,000 |
| YMCA | $50,000 |
| DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| SPCA OF WAKE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $46,000 |
| METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN INC | $40,000 |
| JUNE'S BOUQUETS | $30,000 |
| THE EASY DOES IT RANCH AND RIDING ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $25,000 |
| FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITIES OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| LOUISBURG COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA | $24,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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.
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 +7% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k 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
- TJTHE JOSHUA FUND5× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +133%
The Methodist Home for Children Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +24%- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $113k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SBSOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2021 · $28k
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +20%- SASaint Augustine's Universityone grant, 2022 · $19k · revenue -59%
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.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Will Baptist Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Opera House Theatre Company Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 15% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 135 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 THE JOSHUA FUND ↗
- Who funds Communities of Grace International ↗
- Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TAMMY LYNN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LOUISBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNE'S BOUQUETS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Fellowship Home of Raleigh ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR GOOD BUSINESS ↗
- Who funds Five 14 Revolution Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Abel Speaks ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc
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 Seby B Jones Family 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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