The Jandy Ammons Foundation Inc
Raleigh, NC · EIN 46-1420271. Reported 59 grants totalling $2,144,353 to 51 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. The Jandy Ammons Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $20,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $125,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nc State Engineering Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $500,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dix Park Conservancy | Raleigh, NC | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Miracle League of the Triangle | Cary, NC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nc Zoo | Asheboro, NC | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Triangle Land Conservancy | Durham, NC | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wake Forest Boys and Girls Club | Wake Forest, NC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Artspace | Raleigh, NC | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nc Botanical Garden Foundation | Chapel Hill, NC | $58,853 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ducks Unlimited | Memphis, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Museum of Life and Science | Durham, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Nc Museum of Life & Science | Durham, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Raleigh Rescue Mission | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rex Healthcare Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tammy Lynn Center Ltc | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| YMCA Camp Kanata | Wake Forest, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Marbles Kids Museum | Raleigh, NC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nc Wildlife Federation | Raleigh, NC | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nc Museum of Natural Sciences | Raleigh, NC | $38,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Jockeys Ridge | Nags Head, NC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Raleigh Little Theater | Raleigh, NC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cam Raleigh | Raleigh, NC | $33,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| A Place at the Table | Raleigh, NC | $32,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| North Carolina Museum of Art Found | Raleigh, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Small School | Raleigh, NC | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tar River Land Conservancy | Louisburg, NC | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Corral Riding Academy Inc | Cary, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Mountains to Sea Trail | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Historic Lucks Cannery | Seagrove, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Learning Together | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Museum of Coastal Carolina | Ocean Isle Beach, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Nature Conservancy Nc | Durham, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wonder Connection | Chapel Hill, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Note in the Pocket | Raleigh, NC | $21,966 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cape Fear River Watch | Wilmington, NC | $21,847 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Book Harvest | Durham, NC | $20,688 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nc Coastal Federation | Newport, NC | $20,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| A Lotta Love | Chapel Hill, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Elkin Valley Trails Association | Elkin, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Poe Center for Health Education | Raleigh, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Raleigh Area Land Trust | Raleigh, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Activate Good | Raleigh, NC | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Coastal Land Trust | Wilmington, NC | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Transplanting Traditions Com Farm | Hillsborough, NC | $15,894 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Valley River Arts Guild | Murphy, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Wildlife Federation | Raleigh, NC | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Blessing Inc | Louisburg, NC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ware Creek Community Dev Program | Blounts Creek, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Preservation North Carolina | Raleigh, NC | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wake Forest Historic Preservation | Wake Forest, NC | $5,045 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wake Forest College Birthplace Soc | Wake Forest, NC | $3,560 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seawell Elementary | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
6 of 51 (12%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 15%, across 4 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Miracle League of the Triangle
BALLPARK IN DOWNTOWN DURHAM - Nc Botanical Garden Foundation
GATHERING CIRCLE IN AMER INDIAN GRDN - Raleigh Rescue Mission
FACILITY FOR HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHIL - Dix Park Conservancy
ADDITIONAL SIGNAGE OR TECH OR EQUIP - Rex Healthcare Foundation
ART WORK AT NEW CANCER CENTER - Museum of Life and Science
CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY PLAZA
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 29 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10 | $318,194 | $18,750 |
| 2022 | 10 | $412,131 | $25,500 |
| 2023 | 12 | $426,259 | $23,483 |
| 2024 | 10 | $411,053 | $32,500 |
| 2025 | 17 | $576,716 | $30,000 |
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.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. The Jandy Ammons Foundation Inc has 68 of them, worth $2,448,659. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Nc State Engineering Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $125,000 |
| Nc State Engineering Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $125,000 |
| Nc State Engineering Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $125,000 |
| Wake Forest Boys and Girls Club | Wake Forest, NC | $75,000 |
| Artspace | Raleigh, NC | $65,000 |
| Nc Botanical Garden Foundation | Chapel Hill, NC | $60,000 |
| Nc Botanical Garden Foundation | Chapel Hill, NC | $58,853 |
| Raleigh Rescue Mission | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 |
| Dix Park Conservancy | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 |
| Museum of Life and Science | Durham, NC | $50,000 |
| Tammy Lynn Center Ltc | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 |
| YMCA Camp Kanata | Wake Forest, NC | $50,000 |
| Ducks Unlimited | Memphis, TN | $50,000 |
| Nc Museum of Life & Science | Durham, NC | $50,000 |
| Dix Park Conservancy | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 |
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.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in North Carolina.
- 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.
- 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 The Jandy Ammons Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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 97487, Raleigh, NC, 27624. 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.
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