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.

Community Foundation of Burke County

Community Foundation of Burke County at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$275k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.7MHealth$2.0MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$978kEducation$777kHousing & Shelter$557kCrime & Legal$199kAnimals$190kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 23 grants below total $1,434,024, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,062,197 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $628,173 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k16 grants · $451k
$50k–250k5 grants · $435k
$250k+2 grants · $548k

$31,597

Median grant

States reached

$64M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.2M · 43 repeat orgs$777k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.2M

$656k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+30%

Still filing today

60%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

CH
CALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA AMOREM
5× · 2021–2025 · $942k · revenue +20%
BU
BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
9× · 2017–2025 · $822k · revenue +786%
WP
WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $301k · revenue +994% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

SS
SABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA
one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -83% · 33% of their budget
CO
CITY OF MORGANTON
one grant, 2017 · $50k
MM
Mission Ministries Alliance
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -51%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Burke County Chamber of Commerce I Burke County Chamber of Commerce I

To promote and advance commerce in burke county, nc

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Child Care Connections of Burke Co

To assist in the development of child care resource and referral services in burke county, nc

Human Services

Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.

Housing & Shelter

Research Triangle Regional Partnership

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…

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Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter

Monroe-Union County Community

To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.

Housing & Shelter

Carolina Small Business Development Fund

Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.

Public Benefit

The Bladen County Hospital Foundation

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.

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First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health

Brick Capital Community Development Corporation

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.

Community Improvement

Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health

North Carolina Association of Pharmacists

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.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southmountain Children and Family Services; 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.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/50

Grantees still filing

33/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,567,000Human Services$1,542,961Health$482,158Arts & Culture$398,193Education$389,361Housing & Shelter$313,642Environment$270,003

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Rostan Family FoundationNC62× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of Burke County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Burke County. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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