North Carolina · Private foundation
Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $345k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 147
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 51 | $345k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $227k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $150k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $162k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 118 | $270k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 147 | $317k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Marys School | $149,975 | 5 | 0% |
| Ravenscroft School | $112,250 | 6 | 0% |
| North Carolina Museum of History Foundation Inc | $85,479 | 6 | 1% |
| North Carolina State University Foundation Inc | $64,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Appalachian State University Foundation Inc | $63,440 | 2 | 0% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) | $59,430 | 6 | 0% |
| Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Wake County Inc | $54,850 | 6 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $46,875 | 6 | n/a |
| Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy | $41,735 | 5 | 0% |
| Triangle Family Services Inc | $14,654 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 143 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($558k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Cook Family Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Chaucer Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation
- How much does Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation give?
- Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $345,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 147 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Saint Marys School ($150k), Ravenscroft School ($112k), North Carolina Museum of History Foundation Inc ($85k).
- Does Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Bell Cook Family Foundation, North Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation based?
- Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation is based in NC.
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