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Ta the John P McConnell Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$457k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$170k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$736kEducation$714kHealth$238kRecreation & Sports$224kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kReligion$37kYouth Development$18kHuman Services$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $342k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA TECH ATHLETIC FUND$170,000
GRAYSON MURRAY FOUNDATION$100,000
PIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$72,000
GREATER HORIZON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$45,000
NC SPORTS HALL OF FAME$25,000
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
RALEIGH POLICE FOUNDATION$10,000
GREEN SPRING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$5,000
RESTORE BADIN LAKE$5,000
CONTINUOUS BLESSINGS FOUNDATION$4,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY$2,500
MAKE A WISH OF SC$2,000
ANGEL TREE FOUNDATION$2,000
BEECH GROVE METHODIST CHURCH$2,000
COOL BRANCH FIRE DEPT$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 9%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MA
PA
MO
VA
TN
NC
SC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 18 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
65

Total granted

$1.7M
$234k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+33%

Still filing today

28%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationReligionEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • PT
    PIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP
    2× · 2024–2025 · $144k · revenue +6%
  • TH
    THE HOKIE WAY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +497%
  • CB
    CONTINUOUS BLESSINGS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • PT
    PIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE
    one grant, 2017 · $53k
  • HEALING TRANSITIONS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -9%
  • CO
    CITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
2
Piedmont Health Foundation
Health
3
Innovations in Healthcare Inc

Promote global access to cost-effective and high-quality healthcare. facilitate and encourage the broad and prompt dissemination of data and information relating to innovative healthcare solutions around the world.

Education
4
Unc Eshelman School of Pharmacy Foundation

The mission of the foundation is: to foster and promote the profession of pharmacy and pharmaceutical education and research exclusively at the unc eshelman school of pharmacy.

Education
5
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

6
The University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill Foundation Inc

To aid, support, and promote teaching, research, and service in the various educational, scientific, scholarly, professional, artistic, and creative endeavors of the university of north carolina at chapel hill.

Education
7
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
8
The Bladen County Hospital Foundation

The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.

9
Johnston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Johnston health foundation seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people in our communities by supporting the patients, programs, and services of unc health johnston. the foundation seeks to be a philanthropic leader and…

10
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

11
Cape Fear Valley Medical Foundation

Cape fear valley health foundation's mission is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for cape fear valley health as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients. this is accomplished…

Human Services
12
The Medical Foundation of Wake Forest University Health Sciences and North Car

See schedule oto render aid and assistance to wake forest university health sciences (wfuhs) and north carolina baptist hospital (ncbh) in their pursuits by approved methods for the promotion of medical science and medical knowledge, the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Nc East Inc and the most unlike its peers is Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation D/B/a Wyndham Championship. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCharitable Trusts and Found…Professional & Advocacy Ass…Virginia Institutional Asso…Individual Charitable TrustsUniversity Support Organiza…Christian Community OutreachDisability Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%12%<5yr16%4%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr15%39%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr11%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%37%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr14%3%35–55yr11%41%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 37% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
14%
2,124/14,751

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.

04the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VIRGINIA TECH ATHLETIC FUND — $689,600 · OtherVIRGINIA TECH ATHLETIC FUNDTRIAD PIEDMONT CHARITABLE FOUNDATIO — $319,000 · OtherTRIAD PIEDMONT CHARITABLE FOUNDATIOGREATER HORIZON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $205,000 · OtherGREATER HORIZON CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONPIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP — $144,000 · OtherPIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIPNC SPORTS HALL OF FAME — $70,000 · OtherTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · Other+65 more — $306,825 · Other+65 moreGRAYSON MURRAY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthHEALING TRANSITIONS INC — $25,000 · Health+6 more — $13,500 · HealthTHE HOKIE WAY INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyHM3 PARTNERS INDEPENDENCE FUND INC — $3,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $2,650 · PhilanthropyUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationFRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC — $2,500 · EducationCONTINUOUS BLESSINGS FOUNDATION — $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsRESTORE BADIN LAKE INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Environment
Other$1,794,425Health$138,500Philanthropy$55,650Education$32,500Youth Development$21,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Environment$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP — $144,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOKIE WAY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONTINUOUS BLESSINGS FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESTORE BADIN LAKE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP HALL INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHM3 PARTNERS INDEPENDENCE FUND INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVIASTRONG FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINDING PURPOSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD FRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NC EAST INC — $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP
  • Who funds GRAYSON MURRAY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE HOKIE WAY INC
  • Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC
  • Who funds CONTINUOUS BLESSINGS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE
  • Who funds FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds RESTORE BADIN LAKE INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP HALL INC
  • Who funds HM3 PARTNERS INDEPENDENCE FUND INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION

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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Ta the John P McConnell 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Ta the John P McConnell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ta the John P McConnell Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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