· Public charity
Blue Ridge Partnership for Children
Family education and development of children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $171,616 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $252,169 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $80,553 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S CASTLE CHILDCARE CENTER | $58,492 |
| KINGDOM KIDS CHILDCARE CENTER | $33,358 |
| YANCEY HEAD START | $20,273 |
| SPRUCE PONE MONTESSORI | $19,350 |
| BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $10,003 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF THE FOOTHILLS | $10,000 |
| BURKE COUNTY SMART START | $8,981 |
| CHURCH STREET PRESCHOOL INC | $5,950 |
| AVERY COUNTY SCHOOLS | $5,209 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 70% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.
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
- TRTOE RIVER HEALTH DISTRICT4× · 2020–2023 · $188k
- MAMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $146k · revenue +34%
- CSCHURCH STREET PRESCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue -39%
Funded once
- RFResources for Resilienceone grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue 0%
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- RAREGION A PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue -1%
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.
The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…
The partnership's mission is to be the driving force to engage partners to achieve lasting positive outcomes for all children, beginning at birth.
The Guilford County Partnership for Children is a local non-profit strategically directing Smart Start and NC Pre-K funding to ensure equitable access to high quality childcare, professional development for early childhood educators and…
Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…
To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.
For the future health and vitality of Surry County, the mission of the Surry County Early Childhood Partnership is to take action on behalf of the people of Surry County to support children 0 to 5 and their families through partnerships…
When they have challenges, we connect all children and their families to programs and resources that provide opportunities and hope.
The Partnership effectively utilizes a multitude of resources to ensure that Johnston's youngest residents and their families receive educational, health, and emotional support services, preparing children for lifelong success.
To ensure that every child in orange county arrives at school healthy and ready to succeed. we focus on the early years of a child's life, from birth to five, which is the most critical time in a child's development.
Launch every child as a healthy, lifelong learner by the end of the third grade. This is accomplished through working across the four building blocks of early education. 1) Health and development are on track beginning before birth 2)…
To make meaningful and measurable investments in the quality of life for young children and families in education, health, and support services.
To develop and implement strategies that will improve the education, health, and well-being of young children and their families in montgomery county, north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Burke County Smart Start Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spruce Pine Montessori School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH STREET PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Resources for Resilience ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN CHILDRENS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF THE FOOTHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds REGION A PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SMART START PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRE ↗
- Who funds SMART START OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE COUNTY SMART START 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: Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · North Carolina Partnership for Children 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 Blue Ridge Partnership for Children 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.
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.