For one nonprofit, the gift of knowing funding is there
For the team at the Methodist Home for Children, receiving an annual grant from the Louise Oriole Burevitch Endowment at NCCF provides inspiration and yearly validation of their important work.
MHC is a child welfare organization that provides mental health services and safe, stable homes where children can thrive and live to their full potential.
Burevitch had supported Methodist Home for Children during her lifetime and was moved to designate support indefinitely.
Since the Burevitch Endowment was established in 2015, MHC has received $209,000, including $22,000 in 2024.
MHC has combined the endowment money with other funding for four psychological crisis assessment centers, transitional living homes for youth who are coming out of youth prisons, and an early childhood center in a Raleigh affordable housing community.
“There’s nothing that inspires our staff and enables our work like the certitude that people have already made provision, and that the forward funding is there,” said Bruce Stanley, MHC’s President and CEO who met Burevitch before she passed away in 2014. “She had always loved children, and she wanted to make sure that the resources that she had were used to take care of children going forward.”
In 2024, the Burevitch endowment awarded more than $1 million to nonprofits, mostly in eastern North Carolina. In total, the endowment has strengthened communities by awarding more than $9 million.
“Mrs. B,” as Burevitch was known to her friends, was a Wilmington native whose generosity was well-known in southeastern North Carolina and beyond. She left behind a fortune that few knew she possessed, and her charitable giving was motivated by her generous nature and concern for the welfare of people and animals.
