· Private foundation
Willie & Lisa Bullock Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVERSIDE THEATER | $17,500 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM | $5,313 |
| GRANDFATHER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE | $2,538 |
| JOHN'S ISLAND COMM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| VERO BEACH OPERA | $1,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF IRC INC | $1,500 |
| CROSSOVER MISSION | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- RTRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +16%
- TJTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +82%
- VBVERO BEACH OPERA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- MSMCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CHCROSSNORE HOME FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IRINDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +292%
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.
To preserve the indian river lakes region for its natural, recreational, and scenic values.
To identify solutions that will protect and enhance the lives of indian river county children, individuals, families, and seniors.
To supplement educational programs in indian river county.
To bring cultural enrichment to the entire community through quality music programs, and to foster the development of area musicians of all ages through performance opportunities and educational initiatives.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
The indian river county chamber of commerce, inc. is a county-wide organization representing the business community by providing services, benefits, and leadership for positive economic growth and change.
The international violin competition of indianapolis (ivci) recognizes, rewards and promotes the world's finest young classical violinists and encourages understanding, appreciation and support of the violin repertoire by a large and…
To raise awareness of opera and fine arts in sc.
The mission of the marine resources council (mrc) is to maintain and enhance the quality of marine systems for the economic, recreational, aesthetic, and environmental use for the people of florida
To provide quality life orchestral experiences of the world's greatest music for the enjoyment, enrichment and education of our audiences and musicians.
Promote awareness of grand and lyric opera to the general public through performance, program literature, presentations and community outreach programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childcare Resources of Indian River Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vero Beach Opera Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Grandfather Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVERY COUNTY HUMANE 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: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Willie & Lisa Bullock 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.