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Robert E Bryan JR Foundation

Cedar Grove, NC · EIN 31-1623195. Reported 64 grants totalling $180,157 to 48 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$180,157granted, 2021-2024
48recipients, as named on its returns
24%of grantees funded again the next year
$947,491assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Robert E Bryan JR Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $250 and $2,500; the smallest was $100 and the largest $16,900. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
37 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
15 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
9 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Snyder Memorial BaptistFayeteville, NC$56,400442024
Cedar Grove UMCCedar Grove, NC$49,900442024
Cape Fear Valley Health FoundationFayeteville, NC$13,700442024
Feed the HungerGraham, NC$10,000112022
Cumberland Community FoundationFayeteville, NC$8,050112023
The Care ClinicFayeteville, NC$5,500332024
Methodist College Pa EndowmentFayeteville, NC$5,000112021
Methodist UniversityFayeteville, NC$4,386112023
Edenton Street United Methodist ChurchRaleigh, NC$4,368222024
Camp TecumsehBrookston, IN$2,500112024
Foundation of HopeRaleigh, NC$2,500112024
Nc Outward Bound SchoolAshville, NC$2,500222022
Unc Center for Public ServiceChapel Hill, NC$1,500112024
Women's Giving CircleFayeteville, NC$1,100222022
Sentinel Patriot ClubHendersonville, NC$1,000112021
The Carter CenterAtlanta, GA$1,000222022
Triangle YMCARaleigh, NC$1,000112021
Frankie Lemmon FoundationRaleigh, NC$600222024
Methodist CollegeFayeteville, NC$600112021
Womens Giving CircleFayetteville, NC$550112024
Cape Fear Valley HospiceFayeteville, NC$500112021
CrossnoreCrossnore, NC$500112024
Fayetteville Family Life CenterFayeteville, NC$500112021
Haymount UMCFayeteville, NC$500112021
Ncssm FoundationDurham, NC$500112024
Operation InasmuchFayeteville, NC$500112022
Salvation ArmyFayeteville, NC$500112022
Centenary UMCSmithfield, NC$300112021
Fayetteville Animal Protection SocietyFayeteville, NC$300112021
Samaritan's PurseBoone, NY$300112021
St Stephen's Episcopal ChurchGoldsboro, NC$300112022
Parkinson's FoundationMiami, FL$253112021
1ST Baptist ChurchFayeteville, NC$250112022
Campbell UniversityBuies Creek, NC$250112021
Eastern Nc Alzheimer's AssocRaleigh, NC$250112021
Fayetteville Independent Light IndustryFayeteville, NC$250112022
Holy Trinity Episcopal ChurchFayeteville, NC$250112022
L'arche North CarolinaDurham, NC$250112023
Myrover-Reese Fellowship HomeFayeteville, NC$250112021
1ST Presbyterian ChurchFayeteville, NC$200112021
Taylor EndowmentMarion, IN$200112022
Three Rivers Land TrustSalisbury, NC$200112021
Wounded Warrior ProjectFayeteville, NC$200112021
Authora CareGreensboro, NC$100112024
D N Geddie Scholarship FundFayeteville, NC$100112021
Daily TarheelChapel Hill, NC$100112021
Falcon Children's HomeFalcon, NC$100112022
Habitat for HumanityFayeteville, NC$100112021

9 of 48 (19%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 24%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 12 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
5 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Mental Health
1 grant
Human Services
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Medical Research
1 grant
Environment
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202126$48,553$400
202217$42,950$500
20238$45,436$3,443
202413$43,218$2,200

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

98% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

North Carolina
$176K
Indiana
$3K
Georgia
$1K
New York
$300
Florida
$253

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsCumberland Community Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsRaymond James Charitable Endowment Fund6 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in North Carolina.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Robert E Bryan JR Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 26, Cedar Grove, NC, 27231. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 31-1623195 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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