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· Public charity
BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP
Organization's mission is to strengthen the capacity of educators, families and the community to build a strong foundation for children's learning and development beginning at birth.
$401k
Granted FY2023
24
Grants
2
Communities
$49k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
—
2021
kids
2022
—
2023
enrichment
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 24 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $262k
$9,487
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- GRANTS BELOW 5000$48,818
- COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES$43,455
- CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLS INC$35,835
- ELIADA CHILD DEVELOPMENT$25,992
- THE CHILDREN'S CENTER AT GRACELYN$19,991
- VERNER CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING$18,616
- ASHEVILLE JEWISH COMMUNITY$14,990
- ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS$14,876
- YWCA OF ASHEVILLE$13,858
- DONALD'S COLLINS EARLY EDUCATION LE$12,931
- EMMANUEL LUTHERAN SCHOOL$12,658
- HOMINY BAPTIST CHURCH$9,487
- IRENE WORTHAM CENTER$9,349
- CHILD CARE CENTER OF FIRST PRESBYTE$9,302
- MISSION HOSPITALS CHILD DEVELOPMENT$8,024
02The need
04
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:
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $336k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 27 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
27
3
Total granted
$3.0M
$14k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+42%
+27%
Still filing today
37%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES5× · 2018–2023 · $255k · revenue +49%
- VCVERNER CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING6× · 2018–2023 · $226k · revenue +36%
- YOYWCA OF ASHEVILLE6× · 2018–2023 · $113k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- VCVALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +27%
- WAWEST ASHEVILLE BAPTIST CHILD CAREone grant, 2021 · $5k
- AKALL KIDS ACADEMY LLCone grant, 2021 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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.
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The Childrens Center
The children's center provides early child care and education in a vibrant learning community that emphasizes personal development, social relationships and family involvement, in order to establish a foundation for lifelong learning.
Education
2
The Children's Center of Western North Carolina
At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.
Human Services
3
The Children's Center Inc
The children's center provides affordable high quality education and childcare for working families throughout the lowcountry.
Human Services
4
Early Years Development Center Inc
Provide full time child care service for ages six months through five years of age, and after school child care service for children up to twelve years old.
Human Services
5
Rosslyn Children's Center
Educators and families work in partnership to provide a joyful environment where children are encouraged to explore and interact with the world around them.
Education
6
Child Education Center
Child Education Center is a licensed daycare serving children ages 6 weeks thru 6 years.
Human Services
7
Child Care Center of the Common
Provide child care services to the community for children ages 16 weeks to 12 years.
Human Services
8
Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Ce
The Center provides a rich early learning experience to more than 100 children every day, offering them the opportunity to explore their worlds, to be guided as they make new discoveries, to gain important literary skills that will help…
Human Services
9
Little Wonders Early Learning Center
Little Wonders Early Learning Center aims to deliver high-quality, child-centered early education and care to the children of Davidson county's hardworking public-school educators. Through stimulating classroom and outdoor environments and…
Education
10
Children's Center
Provide childcare services
Human Services
11
White Plains Childrens Center Inc
A developmental day care center providing care for special needs and non-special needs children.
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12
The Children's Center
To provide and atmosphere that will enhance social, emotional, physical and intellectual skills for children in a safe and happy environment.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Irene Wortham Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mission Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,036,213Human Services$336,341Philanthropy$226,103Health$167,009Religion$126,148Youth Development$86,372Education$44,364
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 COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds VERNER CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING ↗
- Who funds ELIADA CHILD DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITALS CHILD DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds SHALOM CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE AVERY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds IRENE WORTHAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE CENTER OF FIRST PRESBYTE ↗
- Who funds DONALD'S COLLINS EARLY EDUCATION LE ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
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 FoundationNC33.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Asheville And · Pisgah Health Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHRISTINE AVERY LEARNING CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 471618110 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CHRISTINE AVERY LEARNING CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Buncombe County Partnership?
Find your warmest path to Buncombe County Partnership through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines