· Private foundation
Turner B Bunn Jr and Catherine E Bunn Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of TURNER B BUNN JR AND CATHERINE E BUNN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST TIMOTHY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS HUNGER ELIMINATION OF WILSON NC | $6,500 |
| WILSON YOUTH UNITED (THE SPOT) | $6,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS WILSON | $5,300 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN OF WILSON COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| WILSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BARTON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| LA IGLESIA DE LA GUADALUPANA EPISCOPAL DIOCES OF WILSON | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL CAROLINA | $3,000 |
| PINK LADIES OF WILSON NC | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
55 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CCCARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +62%
- CSCommunity Soup Kitchen of Wilson County Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +188%
- WEWILSON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue ×45
- WYWILSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +47%
- ECEAST CAROLINA COUNCIL BSAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +93%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Assist Wilson Medical Center in its mission of promoting, improving, and restoring health.
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
To advance the general welfare of the people of eastern north carolina through programs providing housing and childcare assistance as well as poverty elimination strategies to disadvantaged populations.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
Williamsburg regional hospital is a not for profit acute care hospital with 25 licensed beds, providing excellence in patient care in an environment that is respectful of others, adaptive to change, accountable for outcomes, and attentive…
The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To advance wilson college of textiles through engagement, partnership and philanthropy. as a charitable organization, the foundation supports the college and dean of the college and such support shall include but is not limited to…
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
The south carolina ovarian cancer foundation (scocf) was created as an organization to support women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, to be a source of education and awareness about the disease to people across the state, and to support…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthcare Foundation of Wilson and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina East Sports Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILSON COUNTY OFFICE OF SENIOR CITIZENS AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Soup Kitchen of Wilson County Inc ↗
- Who funds WILSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILSON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Whirlidogs Training Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Wesley Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOR THE LOVE OF DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIVERSIFIED OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RESIDENTIAL SERVICE OF WILSON ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Healthcare Foundation of Wilson · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Turner B Bunn Jr and Catherine E Bunn Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.