How much does Seby B Jones Family Foundation give?

Seby B Jones Family Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $1,204,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 77 and 87 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Seby B Jones Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Religion (17%), Youth Development (10%).

Who are Seby B Jones Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Ridge Road Baptist Church ($250k), The Joshua Fund ($185k), Communities of Grace International ($125k).

Does Seby B Jones Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Seby B Jones Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Seby B Jones Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.

Where is Seby B Jones Family Foundation based?

Seby B Jones Family Foundation is based in NC.

Seby B Jones Family Foundation

Seby B Jones Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Seby B Jones Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$941kReligion$730kYouth Development$437kHealth$427kEducation$406kInternational$290kRecreation & Sports$153kAnimals$134kOther$0

02FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k46 grants · $184k
$10k–50k29 grants · $550k
$50k–250k4 grants · $220k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RIDGE ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH	$250,000
THE JOSHUA FUND	$70,000
YMCA	$50,000
SPCA OF WAKE COUNTY	$50,000
DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY	$50,000
CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$46,000
METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN INC	$40,000
THE EASY DOES IT RANCH AND RIDING ACADEMY	$30,000
JUNE'S BOUQUETS	$30,000
Individual grant recipient	$30,000
FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME	$25,000
COMMUNITIES OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL	$25,000
OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS	$25,000
LOUISBURG COLLEGE	$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA	$24,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.8M · 92 repeat orgs$494k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.8M

$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+7%

Still filing today

55%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesReligionEducationHealthPublic BenefitInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TJ
THE JOSHUA FUND
5× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +133%
The Methodist Home for Children Inc
3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +24%
SF
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $113k · revenue +12%

Funded once

SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +20%
SB
SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
one grant, 2021 · $28k
SA
Saint Augustine's University
one grant, 2022 · $19k · revenue -59%

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.

04Its field

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.

Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services

Time of Grace Ministry

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…

Religion

Family Promise of Wake County Inc

Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.

Housing & Shelter

Church of God Children's Home of North Carolina Inc

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

Human Services

Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

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.

Human Services

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

Covenant HomeCare

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.

Health

Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services

For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion

Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health

Blue Letter Bible

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Will Baptist Children's Home Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 135 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

76/79

Grantees still filing

55/79

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,769,250Religion$468,000Human Services$375,500Education$242,000Health$217,750Youth Development$120,000Animals$116,500

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.

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.

North Carolina Community FoundationNC50.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Seby B Jones Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seby B Jones Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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