· Public charity
Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc
Deerfield is faith-based, nonprofit, open to all, and provides a continuum of services to empower residents to live life to the fullest.
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 17 grants below total $168,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $601,460 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $433,060 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 $10k11 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABCCM | $25,400 |
| Manna Food Bank | $18,335 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $14,825 |
| Pisgah Legal Services | $12,910 |
| MountainTrue Inc | $12,220 |
| Homeward Bound | $12,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $9,050 |
| HelpMate | $7,600 |
| Salvation Army | $7,300 |
| Episcopal Relief & Development | $7,000 |
| Haywood Street Congregation | $6,900 |
| Asheville Humane Society | $6,250 |
| Beloved Asheville | $6,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $5,850 |
| St Jude's Childrens Hospital | $5,790 |
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, $367k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 81% of Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc’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, 91% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 21% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $296k · revenue +139%
MANNA FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $292k · revenue +153%- UWUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $136k · revenue +282%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES USAone grant, 2022 · $16k
- TNThe North Carolina Arboretum Societyone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +22%
- BCBUNCOMBE COUNTY SERVICE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $13k
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.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western 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,…
Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…
The mission of artsavl is to keep the arts at the heart of our community. the arts council fulfills its mission by supporting arts professionals and businesses in buncombe county through connection, advocacy, and grants.
Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
To enhance the quality of life for the residents and visitors of dare county and the surrounding region by promoting wellness and providing the highest quality healthcare services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnc Bridge Foundation 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 51 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MemoryCare Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds HELPMATE INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc ↗
- Who funds VERNER INC ↗
- Who funds Four Seasons Compassion for Life Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOOD PANTY INC ↗
- Who funds Project Dignity of Western North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds VAGABOND SCHOOL OF THE DRAMA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds The North Carolina Arboretum Society ↗
- Who funds LAKE LOGAN CONFERENCE CENTER AND CAMP HENRY INC ↗
- Who funds Children FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County Inc ↗
- Who funds MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds Literacy Together ↗
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 · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Deerfield Charitable Foundation · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · Manna Food Bank Inc · Pisgah Health Foundation · The Goodman Foundation 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 Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community 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.
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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