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Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc
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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 173 grants below total $7,876,988 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,231,790 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,354,802 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
- Under $10k45 grants · $305k
- $10k–50k91 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARDEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $515,597 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| VETERANS HEALING FARM | $407,853 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON CO | $367,066 |
| HENDERSON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATI | $352,463 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF HENDERSON COUNTY | $305,815 |
| RUTHERFORD RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT COR | $286,016 |
| CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER O | $194,331 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $188,068 |
| MOUNTAINTRUE | $182,618 |
| MINISTRY SEVEN DBA HENDERSONVILLE | $181,697 |
| SAINT JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $175,899 |
| Individual grant recipient | $170,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE HUMANE SOCIETY | $161,726 |
| FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE | $133,637 |
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
170 repeat relationships — 120 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 53 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- PMPARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +20% · 26% of their budget
- BRBlue Ridge Humane Society Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +216%
- HRHENDERSONVILLE RESCUE MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $956k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE NCone grant, 2023 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $108k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPIone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
The chamber is a membership organization, a voluntary partnership of business and professional people working together for the benefit of all, presenting one voice to build a healthy economy and improve the quality of life in henderson…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnc Bridge Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Speak Life Community Church. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
207 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. 207 of the 315 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Ridge Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HENDERSONVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Henderson County United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Assistance Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Healing Farm ↗
- Who funds SAFELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds VAGABOND SCHOOL OF THE DRAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Mountain Aging Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds Rutherford Railroad Development Corp ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL SOLUTIONS OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WILL AND DENI MCINTYRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Four Seasons Compassion for Life Foundation ↗
- Who funds MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds SIXTH AVENUE PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK 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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Pisgah Health Foundation · Henderson County United Way Inc · Manna Food Bank Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Fletcher Hospital Inc · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community 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 Henderson County Inc 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.
- Roxbury Youthworks Inc — 88% of income from government
- Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.