· Private foundation
The John G B Jr and Jane R Ellison Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNCCH FOUNDATION FACULTY EXCELLENCE FUND | $1,000,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $14,000 |
| HIGHER EDUCATION WORKS | $3,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D - JDRF NC | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LAURENCE SCHOOL3× · 2018–2022 · $77k · revenue +70%
- ROREACH OUT FIRST INC2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +43%
- BBBOB BAKER MARIONETTE THEATER2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +229%
Funded once
- UAUNC-CH Ackland Art Museumone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
- VEVirginai Episcopal Schoolone grant, 2020 · $200k
- VEVirginia Episcopal School Building Fundsone grant, 2021 · $111k
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.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 40 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THE LAURENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds BOB BAKER MARIONETTE THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds 826LA ↗
- Who funds PEACEHAVEN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT LA ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John G B Jr and Jane R Ellison Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John G B Jr and Jane R Ellison Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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