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Bourne Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bourne Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$71kEducation$39kReligion$26kHealth$18kCommunity Improvement$9kPhilanthropy$7kHuman Services$4kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$424k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Blumenthal Performing Arts$10,489
Urban Promise$2,900
American Heart Association$2,500
The MVA Society$2,500
Search Ministries$1,500
Mauli Ola Foundation$1,500
Myers Park Presbyterian Church$1,489
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Search Ministries: $2k → 11%PARAMOUNT CHURCH: $4k → 11%SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $5k → 15%Long Leaf Alliance: $2k → 19%USO OF NORTH CAROLINA: $2k → 8%CAROLINAS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%Mauli Ola Foundation: $3k → 12%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%LUCA MEDIA COLLECTIVE: $3k → 12%GOING THE EXTRA MILE THE MAX FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2k → 14%MISSIONS OF MERCY: $1k → 6%Search Ministries: $2k → 11%PARAMOUNT CHURCH: $2k → 11%SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $5k → 15%NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%Mauli Ola Foundation: $2k → 12%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%SEARCH MINISTRIES: $1k → 11%PARAMOUNT CHURCH: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $5k → 15%N C STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%UNC: $10k → 10%Hospice of Lower Cape Fear: $1k → 12%PARAMOUNT CHURCH: $2k → 11%BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS: $12k → 10%Blumenthal Performing Arts: $12k → 10%Blumenthal Performing Arts: $10k → 10%BLUMENTHAL PERFORMIMG ARTS: $8k → 10%BLUMENTHAL PERFORMIMG ARTS: $8k → 10%BLUMENTHAL PERFORMIMG ARTS: $6k → 10%BLUMENTHAL PERFORMIMG ARTS: $5k → 10%BLUMENTHAL PERFORMIMG ARTS: $3k → 10%West Blvd Ministries: $2k → 10%CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 10%CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 10%CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 10%CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 10%CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 10%MYERS PARK UNITED CHURCH: $2k → 10%MYERS PARK UNITED CHURCH: $2k → 10%MYERS PARK UNITED CHURCH: $2k → 10%Myers Park Presbyterian Church: $1k → 10%THE MINT MUSEUM: $1k → 10%CAROLINA BREAST FRIENDS: $1k → 10%American Heart Association: $3k → 10%URBAN PROMISE: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
NJ
CO
VA
MD
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$129k · 16 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +350% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
24

Total granted

$129k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+350%
+25%

Still filing today

19%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +5%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +45%
  • BB
    BABY BUNDLES
    3× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +350%

Funded once

  • U
    UNC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • UO
    University of Miamigraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +87%
  • LM
    LUCA MEDIA COLLECTIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
North Carolina Baptist Hospital

See schedule o for continuationnorth carolina baptist hospital (at times also referred to as the "hospital or "ncbh or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (ahwfb), a preeminent learning…

Health
3
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

See schedule owake forest university baptist medical center (at times also referred to as the "medical center or "wfubmc or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (at times also referred to as…

Health
4
Wake Forest University Health Sciences

See schedule o for continuationwake forest university health sciences (at times also referred to as "wake forest university school of medicine", "wfuhs or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist…

Education
5
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
6
Fort Loudoun Medical Center

Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Anderson University

The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…

Education
8
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
9
Charlotte Medical Dental and Pharmaceutical Association
Health
10
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
11
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
12
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atrium Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS: $34,256 · OtherBLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTSBLUMENTHAL PERFORMIMG ARTS: $29,610 · OtherBLUMENTHAL PERFORMIMG ARTSSYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $10,000 · OtherSYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERUNC: $10,000 · OtherUNCUrban Promise: $9,166 · OtherUrban PromiseParamount Church Inc: $8,919 · OtherParamount Church IncMYERS PARK UNITED CHURCH: $5,940 · Other+23 more: $34,831 · Other+23 moreCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $8,250 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNT…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $5,233 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNI…University of Miami: $5,000 · EducationUniversity of M…WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationWOODBERRY FORES…UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2,000 · EducationUNITED CHRISTIA…The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc: $1,600 · EducationThe Foundation …American Heart Association Inc: $2,500 · HealthCarolina Breast Friends Inc: $1,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthBABY BUNDLES: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,200 · Arts & CultureGIVE HOPE INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$142,722Education$24,583Health$4,500Human Services$2,000Environment$1,500Arts & Culture$1,200Philanthropy$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetParamount Church Inc: $8,919 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $8,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $5,233 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY BUNDLES: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Foundation for Tomorrow Inc: $1,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUSO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMens Shelter of Charlotte Inc: $615 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE HOPE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Paramount Church Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BABY BUNDLES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc ↗
  • Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds Carolina Breast Friends Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIVE HOPE 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.

Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationRichard G Jacobus Fam…Dowd Foundation IncStubblefield Foundati…William B McGuire Jr …KPB CorporationDalton-Brand Foundati…The Perper Family Fou…The Marc & Mattye Sil…True Homes Foundation…United Way Worldwide
Foundation for the CarolinasNC18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Richard G Jacobus Family Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · Stubblefield Foundation Inc · William B McGuire Jr Family Foundation · KPB Corporation · Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc · The Perper Family Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · True Homes Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bourne Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bourne Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • United Christian Academy: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home