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Blue Ridge Partnership for Children

Family education and development of children.

$252k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$172k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,003
Largest grant, FY2025
$58,492
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Blue Ridge Partnership for Children funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationOther
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 arriving9$172k78%
FY20248$111k75%
FY20233$106k0%
FY20226$123k33%
FY20215$85k60%
FY20203$106kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$276kHuman Services$195kPublic Safety & Disaster$116kHealth$114k

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
Toe River Health District$187,8134n/a
Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc$145,76330%
Children's Castle Childcare Center$58,4921n/a
Church Street Preschool Inc$41,128610%
Resources for Resilience$37,34516%
Kingdom Kids Childcare Center$33,3581n/a
Appalachian State University$24,8511n/a
East Yancey Water and Sewer District$21,9002n/a
Intermountain Childrens Services$20,27311%
Spruce Pine Montessori School Inc$19,35013%
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All grantees of Blue Ridge Partnership for Children by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Toe River Health District$187,8134n/a
Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc$145,76330%
Children's Castle Childcare Center$58,4921n/a
Church Street Preschool Inc$41,128610%
Resources for Resilience$37,34516%
Kingdom Kids Childcare Center$33,3581n/a
Appalachian State University$24,8511n/a
East Yancey Water and Sewer District$21,9002n/a
Intermountain Childrens Services$20,27311%
Spruce Pine Montessori School Inc$19,35013%
Partnership for Children of the Foothills Inc$17,60321%
County of Mitchell$16,4002n/a
Region a Partnership for Children$12,00010%
Blue Ridge Partnership for Children$10,00310%
Smart Start Partnership for Childre$10,00010%
Smart Start of Transylvania County$10,00011%
Madison County Partnership for Children & Families Inc$9,07012%
Burke County Smart Start Inc$8,98110%
The Children's Garden Inc$6,5071n/a
County of Avery$5,9051n/a
Avery County Schools$5,2091n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blue Ridge Partnership for Children supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMountain Area Health Education Center Inc: $145,763 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChurch Street Preschool Inc: $41,128 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetResources for Resilience: $37,345 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetIntermountain Childrens Services: $20,273 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSpruce Pine Montessori School Inc: $19,350 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPartnership for Children of the Foothills Inc: $17,603 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRegion a Partnership for Children: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlue Ridge Partnership for Children: $10,003 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSmart Start Partnership for Childre: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSmart Start of Transylvania County: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMadison County Partnership for Children & Families Inc: $9,070 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBurke County Smart Start Inc: $8,981 over 1y, 0.2% 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 12.

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.

Dogwood Health TrustNC29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · North Carolina Partnership for Children 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 Blue Ridge Partnership for Children

How much does Blue Ridge Partnership for Children give?
Blue Ridge Partnership for Children reported 9 itemized grants totaling $171,616, out of $252,169 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Blue Ridge Partnership for Children fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Human Services (28%), Public Safety & Disaster (17%).
Who are Blue Ridge Partnership for Children's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Toe River Health District ($188k), Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc ($146k), Children's Castle Childcare Center ($58k).
Does Blue Ridge Partnership for Children fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Blue Ridge Partnership for Children?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dogwood Health Trust, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc.
Where is Blue Ridge Partnership for Children based?
Blue Ridge Partnership for Children is based in NC.

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 21 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 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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