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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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of BELL KOONCE BURNETTE FOUNDATION’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 · 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 |
| MERRIE WOODE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STUDY CENTER | $2,500 |
| NC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES 29 | $2,500 |
| EXECUTIVE MANSION FUND INC | $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 (FY20–25, $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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation. 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.
125 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. 125 of the 223 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 TRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
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: 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
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 Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation 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.
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% 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.
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