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Willie & Lisa Bullock 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.

$305k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$106,880
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1000 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$300k43%
FY20248$45k13%
FY202311$33k36%
FY20229$37k33%
FY20219$21k89%
FY20201$500n/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$82kHuman Services$24kPhilanthropy$18kRecreation & Sports$8kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$6kYouth Development$4kHealth$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vero Beach Museum of Art Inc$226,23710%
The John's Island Foundation Inc$42,50041%
Riverside Theatre Inc$36,00050%
Childcare Resources of Indian River Inc$12,00040%
North Carolina State$9,53832%
Vero Beach Opera Inc$6,50050%
Crossover Mission Inc$6,25030%
The Learning Alliance Inc$5,00030%
Cooper Alan Foundation$5,00011%
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$1,1171n/a
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All grantees of Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vero Beach Museum of Art Inc$226,23710%
The John's Island Foundation Inc$42,50041%
Riverside Theatre Inc$36,00050%
Childcare Resources of Indian River Inc$12,00040%
North Carolina State$9,53832%
Vero Beach Opera Inc$6,50050%
Crossover Mission Inc$6,25030%
The Learning Alliance Inc$5,00030%
Cooper Alan Foundation$5,00011%
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$1,1171n/a
Indian River Symphonic Association Inc$1,00011%
Avery County Humane Society Inc$60010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVero Beach Museum of Art Inc: $226,237 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe John's Island Foundation Inc: $42,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetRiverside Theatre Inc: $36,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChildcare Resources of Indian River Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Carolina State: $9,538 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetVero Beach Opera Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCrossover Mission Inc: $6,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Learning Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCooper Alan Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIndian River Symphonic Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAvery County Humane Society Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Indian River Community Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation

How much does Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation give?
Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $304,854 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Human Services (16%), Philanthropy (12%).
Who are Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Vero Beach Museum of Art Inc ($226k), The John's Island Foundation Inc ($43k), Riverside Theatre Inc ($36k).
Does Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Indian River Community Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation based?
Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation is based in FL.

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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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