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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.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $31,597
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $274,967
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $64M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Community Foundation of Burke County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $1.4M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $1.7M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.5M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $520k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $500k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $904k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $910k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $678k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waldensian Presbyterian Church of Valdese Nc | $1,385,434 | 9 | n/a |
| Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care Inc Dba Amorem | $941,716 | 5 | 3% |
| Burke United Christian Ministries | $821,932 | 9 | 10% |
| First Presbyterian Church - Morganton | $647,441 | 9 | n/a |
| Burke Hospice and Palliative Care Inc | $534,069 | 5 | 4% |
| Western Piedmont Foundation Inc | $301,450 | 9 | 39% |
| Appalachian State University Foundation Inc | $300,999 | 4 | 1% |
| Southmountain Children and Family Services | $273,423 | 9 | 1% |
| Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina Inc | $270,003 | 7 | 2% |
| Good Samaritan Clinic | $257,152 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 70 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of Burke County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of Burke County with peer funders
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About Community Foundation of Burke County
- How much does Community Foundation of Burke County give?
- Community Foundation of Burke County reported 23 itemized grants totaling $1,434,024, out of $2,062,197 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation of Burke County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Health (22%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Community Foundation of Burke County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Waldensian Presbyterian Church of Valdese Nc ($1.4M), Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care Inc Dba Amorem ($942k), Burke United Christian Ministries ($822k).
- Does Community Foundation of Burke County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Burke County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rostan Family Foundation, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Dogwood Health Trust.
- Where is Community Foundation of Burke County based?
- Community Foundation of Burke County is based in NC.
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