· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $200,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S SCHOOL | $21,325 |
| YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC | $16,000 |
| NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION | $13,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $11,500 |
| RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL | $10,500 |
| DIX PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,010 |
| STEP UP MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| YATES MILL ASSOCIATES | $7,500 |
| YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $3,850 |
| RICHARD HAMPTON JENRETTE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STUDY CENTER | $2,500 |
| MERRIE WOODE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| NC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES 29 | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
99 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSAINT MARYS SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +16%
RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $112k · revenue +31%- NCNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +417%
Funded once
- URUNC REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $45k
- UKUNC-CH KENAN FLAGLER FUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- U(UNC-CH (PARENTS COUNCIL ENDOWMENT-602412)one grant, 2020 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
How this is measured
125 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 223 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAYWOOD HALL COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds Yates Mill Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD HAMPTON JENRETTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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