North Carolina · Nonprofit
John M Belk Endowment
John M Belk Endowment (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $558,692 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($558,692). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $40M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $559k
- Net assets
- $379M
What John M Belk Endowment does
Program
In 2023, the John M. Belk Endowment joined other organizations in leading the "NC Reconnect" effort, focused on engaging adults in North Carolina who have not completed a post-secondary credential and connecting them to educational pathways at their local community colleges that lead to improved career opportunities. In addition to making grants to community colleges in the respective cohorts, the Endowment covered the cost of communications and marketing services essential to the initiative's success.
$477,767 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $345M to $397M (+15%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Mary Claudia Belk Pilon
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $315k → $243k.
From the IRS filings of John M Belk Endowment’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
John M Belk Endowment draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
John M Belk Endowment holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like John M Belk Endowment
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for John M Belk Endowment: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds John M Belk Endowment?
- John M Belk Endowment (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $558,692 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($558,692). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does John M Belk Endowment have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $558,692 in grants to John M Belk Endowment, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of John M Belk Endowment?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $558,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like John M Belk Endowment find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing