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Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment Foundation

Develop and accelerate growth & employment opportunities for the community.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment 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.

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mountain BizCapital Inc$1,098,635
Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Inc$773,113
French Broad Pantry LLC$25,000
Dare Vegan Cheese LLC$25,000
Carolina Flowers LLC$25,000
Online Training Concepts$25,000
Matcha Nude$25,000
Legally Addictive Foods LLC$25,000
Asheville Tea Company$25,000
Greater Haywood Chamber of Commerce$5,250
Henderson County Chamber of Commerce Incorporated$5,250
Burke County Chamber of Commerce$5,100
02The need
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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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Greater Haywood Chamber of Commerce: $5k → 12%Henderson County Chamber of Commerce Incorporated: $5k → 12%My Daddy Taught Me That: $10k → 12%Burke County Chamber of Commerce: $5k → 13%Matcha Nude: $25k → 12%Dare Vegan Cheese LLC: $25k → 12%Legally Addictive Foods LLC: $25k → 12%Mountain BizCapital Inc: $1.1M → 12%Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Inc: $773k → 12%Online Training Concepts: $25k → 12%Asheville Tea Company: $25k → 12%Black Wall Street AVL: $10k → 12%Carolina Flowers LLC: $25k → 12%Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: $10k → 12%French Broad Pantry LLC: $25k → 12%YWCA of Asheville and WNC Inc: $10k → 12%Buncombe County Schools Foundation Inc: $10k → 12%All Souls Counseling: $10k → 12%Eblen Charities Inc: $10k → 12%Blue Ridge Public Radio: $10k → 12%OpenDoors Asheville: $10k → 12%Asheville Museum of Science: $10k → 12%Asheville Habitat for Humanity: $10k → 12%Asheville Greenworks: $10k → 12%LoLo LLC: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development

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2
Black Economic Mobility Coalition

Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate

Community Improvement
3
Ashe County Recovery and Restoration

Ashe County Recovery and Restoration was established in October 2024 in response to the devastation in Ashe County, nc that occured as a result of Hurricane Helene.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment Foundation

Develop and accelerate growth & employment opportunities for the community.

Philanthropy
5
Pamlico Business Resource Center
Community Improvement
6
Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Educational Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Wnc Communities

WNC Communities empowers the people of Western North Carolina to cultivate the vitality and prosperity of mountain communities through collaboration and agricultural opportunities. This mission is accomplished through a program of work…

Food & Nutrition
8
Beckley-Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce

To build a vibrant community through programs of advocacy, public awareness and policy development.

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9
Wayne County Development Alliance Inc

Enhance economic development

Community Improvement
10
Greensboro Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

To serve as greensboro, north carolina's principal economic and community development organization. our goal is to strategically develop a vibrant community that creates, expands, and attracts business while advancing the quality of life…

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11
Boone Area Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Commission Inc

To solicit, manage, and distribute funds and resources to further the development and welfare of the boone and watauga county, nc area through activities which are exclusively charitable, educational, or scientific.

Public Benefit
12
Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce

To promote tourism and local businesses in brunswick county, north carolina

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Bizcapital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kl Training Solutions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Inc — $3,999,545 · OtherAsheville Area Chamber of Commerce Inc+17 more — $255,600 · Other+17 moreMOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC — $1,098,635 · PhilanthropyMOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL IN…WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO — $10,000 · Arts & CultureASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterOpen Doors of Asheville Inc — $10,000 · EducationAll Souls Counseling Center — $10,000 · HealthAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project — $10,000 · Environment
Other$4,255,145Philanthropy$1,098,635Arts & Culture$20,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Education$10,000Health$10,000Environment$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAsheville Area Chamber of Commerce Inc — $3,999,545 over 9y, 19% of budgetMOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC — $1,098,635 over 1y, 11% of budgetOpen Doors of Asheville Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAsheville GreenWorks — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAll Souls Counseling Center — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEblen Charities Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuncombe County Schools Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK WALL STREET AVL — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetYWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKL TRAINING SOLUTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER HAYWOOD COUNTY CHAMBER — $5,250 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Dogwood Health TrustRichard Eckerd Founda…Wnc Bridge FoundationThe Hedrick Family Fo…The Cannon Foundation…United Way of Ashevil…The Frances & William…Harry F Chaddick and …Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC33.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · The Hedrick Family Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · Harry F Chaddick and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Td 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 Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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