· Private foundation
The Joe R & Joella F Utley Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONDAYS HOPE | $75,000 |
| WE MUST PROTECT | $20,000 |
| FOOTHILLS HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $15,000 |
| S C BACH | $10,800 |
| SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC | $10,000 |
| WE DEFY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THERMAL BELT OUTREACH MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| MOTLOW CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Joe R & Joella F Utley Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- NMNATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)6× · 2017–2023 · $652k · revenue +173%
- BMBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED2× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +33%
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2024 · $20k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +36%
- TMTHE MUSIC FOUNDATION OF SPARTANBURGone grant, 2017 · $20k
- CRCHILD RESCUE COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +44%
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.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
As the nation's preeminent performing arts festival, spoleto produces and presents work of the highest artistic caliber to diverse and adventurous audiences. through innovation, education, and a commitment to our community, we harness the…
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond. carolina ballet works to accomplish this mission by…
We inspire, entertain, and connect people with the transformative power of orchestral music. as michiana's premiere professional orchestra, the south bend symphony engages the community in the exploration of orchestral music in all its…
The san francisco conservatory of music (sfcm) educates exceptionally talented musicians from around the world to become artists of the highest caliber, as well as musical citizens prepared for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
Our mission is to ignite the human spirit through the passion and unifying power of live symphonic music.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steps to Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Trumpet Competition Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 26 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 NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONDAYS HOPE ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds We Must Protect Inc ↗
- Who funds SC BACH ↗
- Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
- Who funds Foothills Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds THERMAL BELT OUTREACH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RED BELL RUN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds We Defy ↗
- Who funds CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUMPET COMPETITION ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Roger B Smith Family Charitable Trust · J M Smith Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Polk County Community Foundation Inc · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Edward Jones Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer 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 The Joe R & Joella F Utley Foundation Inc 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.
- Child Rescue Coalition Inc — 20% 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.