· Private foundation
The Sylvester 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 $10k51 grants · $143k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
- $250k+1 grant · $319k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHLANDS METHODIST CHURCH | $319,000 |
| THE REFUGE CHURCH | $30,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $27,000 |
| MT VERNON BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RICHLANDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $8,500 |
| ONSLOW PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $7,000 |
| WAYPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ENCOUNTER 61 CHURCH | $5,000 |
| LENIOR GREENE YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| JARVIS METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| VIZION CHURCH | $5,000 |
| LOUISBURG COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF EASTERN NC | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 100% of The Sylvester Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 0%.
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 +70% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
93 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBBRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC7× · 2018–2024 · $56k · revenue +30%
- RVRICHLANDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC6× · 2019–2024 · $39k · revenue +71%
- OPONSLOW PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $32k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- APARENDELL PARROTT ACADEMY INCone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue +15%
- OCOnslow County Schoolsone grant, 2020 · $10k
- NCNORTH CAROLINA METHODIST CAMPSone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
Chapel pointe at carlisle is a continuing care retirement community of the christian and missionary alliance and is for persons of all faiths. our mission is to provide comfortable retirement living and quality care and service to each…
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Pittsboro Christian Village is a caring and compassionate continuing care retirement community for the Lord's people during their senior years. We provide our resident's spiritual and physical well-being, guided by biblical principles to…
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 142 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.
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Big Rock Foundation Inc · Ely J Perry Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sylvester Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sylvester Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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