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Turner B Bunn Jr and Catherine E Bunn Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Turner B Bunn Jr and Catherine E Bunn Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$125kEducation$99kFood & Nutrition$75kHealth$56kYouth Development$48kHuman Services$35kArts & Culture$34kEmployment$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$768k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WILSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN OF WILSON COUNTY INC$5,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
BARTON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL CAROLINA$3,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$3,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$3,000
LA IGLESIA DE LA GUADALUPANA EPISCOPAL DIOCES OF WILSON$3,000
WHIRLIDOGS TRAINING CENTER INC$2,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VETERANS RESIDENTIAL SERVICES OF WILSON: $1k → 23%VETERANS RESIDENTIAL SERVICES OF WILSON: $500 → 23%VETERANS RESIDENTIAL SERVICES OF WILSON: $500 → 23%VETERANS RESIDENTIAL SERVICES OF WILSON: $500 → 23%VETERANS RESIDENTIAL SERVICES OF WILSON: $500 → 23%WESLEY SHELTER: $2k → 20%WESLEY SHELTER: $2k → 20%DIVERSIFIED OPPORTUNITIES INC: $2k → 20%WESLEY SHELTER: $2k → 20%WESLEY SHELTER: $2k → 20%WESLEY SHELTER: $2k → 20%DIVERSIFIED OPPORTUNITIES INC: $1k → 20%DIVERSIFIED OPPORTUNITIES INC: $500 → 20%DIVERSIFIED OPPORTUNITIES INC: $500 → 20%DIVERSIFIED OPPORTUNITIES INC: $500 → 20%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$505k · 55 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
4

Total granted

$505k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+93%

Still filing today

45%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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
    CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +62%
  • CS
    Community Soup Kitchen of Wilson County Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +188%
  • WE
    WILSON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue ×45
  • WY
    WILSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +47%
  • EC
    EAST CAROLINA COUNCIL BSAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +93%
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
Wilson Medical Center Foundation

Assist Wilson Medical Center in its mission of promoting, improving, and restoring health.

Philanthropy
2
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
3
Nash Edgecombe Wilson Community Action Inc

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.

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4
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
5
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

—
6
North Carolina State University College of Sciences Foundation Inc

Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.

Philanthropy
7
Williamsburg Regional Hospital

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…

Health
8
Wireless Research Center of North Carolina

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…

Science & Tech
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
North Carolina Textile Foundation Inc

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…

Education
11
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
12
South Carolina Ovarian Cancer Foundation

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthcare Foundation of Wilson; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 67 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST TIMOTHY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $110,000 · OtherST TIMOTHY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHWILSON YOUTH UNITED (THE SPOT): $32,500 · OtherWILSON YOUTH UNITED (THE SPOT)CHILDRENS HUNGER ELIMINATION OF WILSON NC: $27,800 · OtherCHILDRENS HUNGER ELIMINATION OF WILSON NCCARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherCARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCWILSON COUNTY OFFICE OF SENIOR CITIZENS AFFAIRS INC: $21,200 · OtherBARTON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $19,000 · OtherWILSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · OtherLA IGLESIA DE LA GUADALUPANA EPISCOPAL DIOCES OF WILSON: $15,000 · Other+43 more: $163,100 · Other+43 moreWhirlidogs Training Center Inc: $8,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,100 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $3,500 · HealthHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF WILSON: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthCommunity Soup Kitchen of Wilson County Inc: $21,000 · Food & NutritionWILSON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $11,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationWesley Shelter Inc: $8,500 · Human ServicesDIVERSIFIED OPPORTUNITIES INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesVETERANS RESIDENTIAL SERVICE OF WILSON: $3,000 · Human ServicesVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNorth Carolina East Sports Inc: $2,000 · PhilanthropyFOR THE LOVE OF DOGS INC: $5,500 · Animals
Other$431,600Health$33,100Food & Nutrition$21,000Education$19,000Human Services$16,000Philanthropy$7,000Animals$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWILSON COUNTY OFFICE OF SENIOR CITIZENS AFFAIRS INC: $21,200 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCommunity Soup Kitchen of Wilson County Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetWILSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWILSON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $11,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWhirlidogs Training Center Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetWesley Shelter Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOR THE LOVE OF DOGS INC: $5,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERSIFIED OPPORTUNITIES INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILSON YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS RESIDENTIAL SERVICE OF WILSON: $3,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONETOE FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNorth Carolina East Sports Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF WILSON: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORE SOUND WATERFOWL MUSEUM: $1,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUND RIVERS INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF WILSON INC: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAST CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENFIELD SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDowntown Morehead City Inc: $700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNT ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUST: $400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% 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 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOR THE LOVE OF DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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 ↗

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.

North Carolina Commun…Eddie and Jo Allison …Healthcare Foundation…Triangle Community Fo…Duke Energy FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Renaissance Charitabl…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…
North Carolina Community FoundationNC26.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Turner B Bunn Jr and Catherine E Bunn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Turner B Bunn Jr and Catherine E Bunn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 67 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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