· Public charity
Burke County United Way
Building a stronger burke county community by empowering self sufficiency, increasing housing stability, and fostering opportunities and success for youth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $195,566 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $249,025 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,459 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY | $95,178 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| OPEN HEARTS PLACE | $25,388 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OIOPTIONS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $242k · revenue +68%
- TOTHE OUTREACH CENTER4× · 2017–2020 · $120k · revenue ×20
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $117k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- BCBURKE COUNTY REACT TEAM 3420 INCgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +42%
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 mission of burke united christian ministries is to restore resilience in people living in poverty or experiencing homelessness, ensuring their essential needs are met.
To promote and advance commerce in burke county, nc
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with gods people in need by building houses, so that there are decent homes in decent communities in whigh gods people…
To assist in the development of child care resource and referral services in burke county, nc
Building a stronger burke county community by empowering self sufficiency, increasing housing stability, and fostering opportunities and success for youth. we envision a community where all burke county individuals and families are…
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.
The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
Volunteer Avery County finds resources to aid families and individuals that do not qualify for public assistance and fall through the cracks.
To assist the needs of individuals, help them navigate past obstacles that prevent them from getting out of the cycle of homelessness and poverty, and assist them with achieving independent living.
To provide critical home repairs, accessibility modifications, and safety upgrades for low-income homeowners in Pitt County. The Organization serves the elderly, people living with disabilities, veterans, and multi-generational families in…
Brunswick Family Assistance is devoted to improving the lives of families and individuals in crisis in Brunswick County by providing critical assistance to those working towards self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Open Hearts Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 18 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 OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEETING PLACE ONE INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS SERVICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Big BrothersBig Sisters of WNC Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTS PLACE ↗
- Who funds AIDS LEADERSHIP FOOTHILLS AREA ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE COUNTY REACT TEAM 3420 INC ↗
- Who funds REPAY 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: Community Foundation of Burke County · Rostan Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Grace Episcopal Church Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Morganton Womans Club Foundation Inc · Co Ta Huffman-Cornwell Foundation · Gateway Wellness Foundation · 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 Burke County United Way 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.