· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORA FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| HEALING PINES RESPITE INC | $1,000 |
| NOOR EL-SALAM | $1,000 |
| FAMILY READING PARTNERS | $1,000 |
| CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF THE TRIANGLE | $1,000 |
| PORCH CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO | $500 |
| CHRISTMAS HOUSE INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 24% of The Jelly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HPHEALING PINES RESPITE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue -10%
- FRFAMILY READING PARTNERS5× · 2021–2025 · $4k
- CFCORA FOOD PANTRY4× · 2022–2025 · $4k
Funded once
- CCCOMPASS CENTER FOR WOMENone grant, 2020 · $1k
- RERIVERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $1k
CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +80%
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.
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.
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
To provide support to lowcountry children with birth defects and/or childhood diseases.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
Provides medical and emotional services to terminally ill patients in rutherford county, north carolina. starting in june, 2022 the organization focused on being a 501(c)3 charitable organization that provides direct support and empower…
Operation of a north carolina public charter school
Cary christian school provides an excellent classical education founded upon a biblical worldview. classical christian education is an integrated approach to learning which complements students' natural learning stages while infusing…
Cary Chinese School provides weekend Chinese language courses to students from Pre-K to 8th grade.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 HEALING PINES RESPITE INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA SWIMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Christmas House Inc ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds PORCH CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jelly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jelly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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