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Deerfield Charitable Foundation
We exist to nurture Deerfield's spirit of generosity, enriching the lives of residents and sharing our resources with people across Western North Carolina.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $872,123 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,265,119 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $392,996 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $738k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity | $230,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $160,000 |
| UNC Chapel Hill | $133,000 |
| Jewish Family Services of WNC | $100,000 |
| MemoryCare | $65,000 |
| Council on Aging of Buncombe County | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,991 |
| Rotary Club of Asheville-Biltmore | $20,000 |
| United Way | $19,010 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $15,200 |
| Calvary Episcopal Church Food Pantry | $15,000 |
| Duke Energy | $12,922 |
| Episcopal Diocese of WNC | $10,000 |
| Four Seasons Foundation | $10,000 |
| YWCA of WNC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Deerfield Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k 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
- DEDeerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +13%
- AAASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $820k · revenue +129%
- MAMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC2× · 2020–2023 · $120k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- MCMEMORY CAREone grant, 2023 · $140k
- ACASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INCone grant, 2022 · $101k
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $68k · revenue +122%
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.
Ashe County Recovery and Restoration was established in October 2024 in response to the devastation in Ashe County, nc that occured as a result of Hurricane Helene.
Provide home delivered meals to the elderly on weekends and holidays
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Through advocacy, education, innovation and collaboration, the association provides expanded possibilities for aging, value to its members, and leadership to the field of aging.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Wesley commons is a continuing care retirement community that provides value-based health services, including assisted living, intermediate and skilled nursing care, specialized care for alzheimer's and dementia-related illnesses, as well…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Asheville- Biltmore Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MemoryCare Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Four Seasons Compassion for Life Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Asheville- Biltmore Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOOD PANTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ASSOCIATION OF ASHEVILLE & BUNCOMBE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina 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 · Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · Manna Food Bank Inc · The Leon Levine 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 Deerfield Charitable Foundation 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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