North Carolina · Private foundation
The Jelly 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.
- $6k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $200k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Jelly Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $6k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $6k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $5k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $5k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $4k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healing Pines Respite Inc | $9,125 | 6 | 2% |
| Carolina Swims Foundation | $2,625 | 4 | 7% |
| Noor El-Salam | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Christmas House Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle | $1,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Book Harvest | $700 | 1 | 0% |
| El Centro Hispano Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Porch Chapel Hill-Carrboro | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jelly Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Strowd Roses Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke University · Duke Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Jelly Foundation
- How much does The Jelly Foundation give?
- The Jelly Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $6,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Jelly Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Education (26%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are The Jelly Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Healing Pines Respite Inc ($9k), Carolina Swims Foundation ($3k), Noor El-Salam ($2k).
- Does The Jelly Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jelly Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jelly Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Strowd Roses Inc, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc.
- Where is The Jelly Foundation based?
- The Jelly Foundation is based in NC.
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