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Funding Partners

Book Harvest is grateful for the investments made by the following organizations and individuals.
*This list is curated from 2025 giving and includes gifts of $500+

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$1,000,000+

Matthew Cullinan and Anna Reilly

$500,000+

State of North Carolina

$100,000 - $499,999

Anonymous Trust
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
North Carolina’s Partnership for Children/Smart Start
Taste of the South
The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust

$50,000 - $99,999

bioMérieux Endowment Fund
Durham County Government
Mebane Charitable Foundation
National Center for Families Learning
Replacements, Ltd.

$25,000 - $49,000

Amis Family
Bastian Family Charitable Foundation
Joe and Diane Bastian
Blackbird Fund
ChildTrust Foundation
City of Durham
F. M. Kirby Foundation
Cavett and Barker French
Hendrick Subaru Southpoint
JES Avanti Foundation, Inc.
Lay Lee Ong
The Grable Foundation
The Haney Family Charitable Fund
Thing123 Foundation
Kathryn and Jonathan Walder-Christensen
Melvyn and Cyvia Wolff
Ginger Young and Jonathan Wiener
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

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$10,000-$24,999

Barnes Family Foundation
George Biddle
Mike and Wendy Brenner
John W. Burress
Carolina Hurricanes Foundation Inc.
Julie Chappell
Costco Wholesale
Duke Energy Foundation
Fidelity Investments
Paul Fulton
Sandy Heard and Scott Pruitt
Laura Bastian Webb and Jeff Webb
Library of Congress
Morgan Creek Foundation
Carrie and Doug Norry
Alisa and Malbert Smith
Keenan Szulik
Triangle Community Foundation
United Way of the Greater Triangle
Drayton and Laura Virkler
Yusko Family Foundation

$5,000-$9,999

Kathy and Rob Bauernfeind
Kathryn Bell
Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Grace Cullinan and Salvador Patino
Mark Donahue
Eblin Family
First Bank
Hamsa Foundation
Genoa Haselton
Kaufer Family
Linda Q. Lee and Charles W. Lamb
Written Word Media
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

$2,500-$4,999

ABC-11
Edward Balleisen and Karin Shapiro
Dr. Grace Couchman and Dr. Eugene Oddone
William Davis and Christina Gibson-Davis
Durham Academy
Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation
E. Craig Wall, Sr. Foundation
Benjamin Edwards and Emily Oliver
Eirenikos Foundation
Evelyn D. Schmidt Charitable Trust
Family Fare, LLC
Gateway Building Company
Josephine Gray
Jeff and Carson Howard
Ann Leininger
Mary Rae Hunter
Anne and Mike Liptzin
Livanos Lisande
Marcy McKaig
Molina Healthcare
Noël Family
Pinnacle Financial Partners
Schmidt-Nielsen and Claesson Family
Schuele Family
The Smile Shop

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$1,000 - $2,499

Allen Tate Real Estate, LLC
Baldwin Foundation
John and Wanda Beilenson
Molly Benedum and Joe Waters
Mike and Melissa Bishop
Brenda Brodie
Michael Brown and Charlotte Mao
C. Hammer
Lewis Carson and Karen Prus
Nicholas Cole
Janet Cromer
Janina DeMasi
Dr. Lail's Fund for Children
Duke Street Pediatric Dentistry
Andrew and Ashley Freedman
Anthony and Marcia Gallo
Giarla, Michelson, and Carr Charitable Foundation
Gibralter Family Fund
Gillian and Peter Hare
Girardeau A Spann
Kenneth Goldberg and Sarah Wood
Yolanda and Cary Grant
Haisty Family
Holladay Family
Martha Hsu
Isaacson and McCrocklin
Jewish for Good at the Levin JCC
Jeanette Stokes
JMK Family
Kiwanis Club of Durham
Mimi and Maury Krystel
Leigh-Anne and Steve Spokane
David Levi and Nancy Ranney
Long Family
Longley Family
Lucinda Kellem Jones
Nancy Luebke
Kevin and Robyn Markle
Lyn Means
Mary and David Charitable Fund
Meredith S. Foltz and Gary B. Davis
Miranda Family Giving Fund
Mary Mountcastle and James Overton
Shelley Myott
North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children
Stanley Okula
Ann Panuska
Mark Parker
Parker Foundation
Phoenix Wealth Advisors Inc.
Pinnacle Financial Partners
Principled Technologies
Pro Meeting Management LLC
REAL Fund
Riddell and Wong Family Fund
Margaret Roesch
Deborah Roth
Christopher and Catherine Sanford
Margaret Schaeffer
Sloane Family Fund
Sterling Speirn
Steven and BJ Suttle
Amie Tedeschi
Turlington/Taub
Tyson Charitable
V. John Grubenhoff and Deb Love
Vermillion
Walmart Spark Good Foundation
Kimberly Warren
Woodward Financial Advisors

$500-$999

Lynnette Anderson
Martha Apple and David Rea
Backyard Fund of Triangle Community Foundation
Kathy Bartlett
Fred and Sylvia Black
Blackford/Hansen Fund
Chris and Meredith Brown
Dale Brown
Tony and Teddie Brown
Elizabeth Bruno
Juan Canal
Carolyn W. and Charles T. Beaird Family Foundation
Johnaustin Chapman
Claire and Allen Wilcox
Abby Clobridge
Jane and Stephen Coldiron
Crain Family Fund
Alyssa Cuffie and Alex Onuoha
Lynn Davis
Rachel and Walter DeGrange
Duke School
EEV Education
Fay Family
Melora Fern
Virginia Fitt
Friends of Lakewood Elementary PTA
Anna Gassman-Pines and David Halpern
Glenn-Winstead Fund
Green Ink
Edd and Gita Gulati-Partee
Amit Gupta
Julie and Nathan Hatch
HorsePower Farm
Marianne Jackson
Johnson and Johnson
Emily Joiner
Gus Kahwati
George and Rachel Keener
Lakewood Social
Joe Lanier
Christine Markwalter
Elizabeth and Charles Martin
Connie and Ed McCraw
Michael James
Michelman Family
Chad Miller
Mountain/Mansfield
Diana Nelson
Suki and Jim Newton
Terri O'Quin
Scottie Pate
Dennis Paustenbach
Margie and Ed Pikaart
Kerri Post
David and Sara Pottenger
Potter Family Fund
Ripley Rand
Laura and Charlie Reece
Wyndham Robertson
Chandler Rock
Sam Rodgers
Ruterbories
Janet Singer
Caren and Scott Solomon
Bradley and Patricia Staats
Stephanie Simon and Jack Solomon
Summerson Fund
Helen and Richard Tapper
Samuel Tisherman
Tulsky Saraf Charitable Fund
Courtney and George Van Houtven
Wegmans Chapel Hill
Charles and Jean Wilson
Molly and Van Wood
Rebecca and Rick Wyron

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About Us

Since 2011, Book Harvest has provided more than 3 million books to families, ensuring that parents have the tools and power to ignite and strengthen their children's literacy. With programs that are grounded in evidence, Book Harvest believes that literacy starts at birth, in the home, powered by parents, and nourished with books.

Book Harvest's 2024 IRS 990 is available here.

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