Funder Standing / John M Belk Endowment

John M Belk Endowment

NC · EIN 561954114 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

53 of 72 organizations John M Belk Endowment funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 72.3%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
72.3%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$5,000
Range $5,000 – $2,880,000
Repeat-dollar share
62.9%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
No
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
90.1%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
College Advising Corps$2,880,000
Foundation For The Carolinas$2,738,000
James B Hunt Jr Institute For Educational Leadership And Policynew$1,500,000
Strada Education Foundation Incnew$1,462,491
Myfuturenc Inc$1,250,000
EducationNCnew$1,070,000
Presbyterian Hospitalnew$522,400
Year Up$500,000
Latinxed Education Centernew$500,000
Land Of Sky Regional Council$300,000
North Carolina Community Collegesnew$300,000
Robeson Community Collegenew$158,730
Haywood Community Collegenew$132,500
Central Piedmont Community Collegenew$130,000
James Sprunt Community Collegenew$130,000
Wayne Community Collegenew$130,000
North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universitiesnew$125,000
Forsyth Tech Community College$80,000
University Of North Carolina At Charlotte$75,000
Brunswick Community College$55,000
Catawba Valley Community College$55,000
College Of The Albemarle$55,000
Davidson-Davie Community College$55,000
Edgecombe Community College$55,000
Iredell-Statesville Schools$25,000

Showing the 25 largest of 72 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what John M Belk Endowment funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Flagged for review. A high share of this funder's recipients appear in only one year. That is what genuine turnover looks like, and also what a renamed grantee looks like, so the figure above may be overstated. Match rate cannot distinguish the two.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.