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Community Foundation of Burke County
To encourage, develop, and participate in philanthropy by providing flexible giving opportunities, professional support, and responsible stewardship for the benefit of donors and qualified recipients.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $1,434,024 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,062,197 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $628,173 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
- $10k–50k16 grants · $451k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $435k
- $250k+2 grants · $548k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALDENSIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF VALDESE | $274,967 |
| BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $272,676 |
| DREXEL MUSEUM INC | $135,000 |
| WALDENSIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $110,883 |
| AMOREM | $70,683 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - MORGANTON | $64,944 |
| HISTORIC BURKE FOUNDATION INC | $53,493 |
| GROW WITH DREXEL | $41,000 |
| HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE COUNTY | $39,673 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC | $36,918 |
| FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC | $32,524 |
| WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC | $31,597 |
| CHURCH OF GOD MINISTRIES INC | $28,000 |
| MIMOSA CHRISTIAN COUNSELING CENTER | $27,600 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF GOD OF DREXEL | $27,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
43 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- CHCALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA AMOREM5× · 2021–2025 · $942k · revenue +20%
- BUBURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $822k · revenue +786%
- WPWESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue +299% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- SSSABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -83% · 33% of their budget
- COCITY OF MORGANTONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- MMMission Ministries Allianceone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -51%
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.
To promote and advance commerce in burke county, nc
To assist in the development of child care resource and referral services in burke county, nc
To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
The organization, together with public and private investors, provides affordable housing, housing counseling, education, and community, human, and economic development to improve the quality of life in lee and surrounding counties of nc.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
The north carolina association of pharmacists primary purpose is to unite, serve, and advance the profession of pharmacy for the benefit of society in north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southmountain Children and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 72 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 CALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA AMOREM ↗
- Who funds BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BURKE HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHMOUNTAIN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BURKE CHARITABLE PROPERTIES INC ↗
- Who funds WALDENSIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTS PLACE ↗
- Who funds SABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE CO INC THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEETING PLACE ONE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BURKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GROW WITH DREXEL ↗
- Who funds ASSURE THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BURKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds Mission Ministries Alliance ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds REPAY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds MIMOSA CHRISTIAN COUNSELING CENTER 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: Rostan Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Co Ta Huffman-Cornwell Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Gateway Wellness Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Burke County United Way · Grace Episcopal Church Foundation · Morganton Womans Club Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Blue Ridge Healthcare Hospitals Inc
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 Community Foundation of Burke County 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.
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