· Private foundation
Diane Swift Modaff Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTSIDE INCLUSIVE SCHOOL HOUSE INC | $125,000 |
| ABCCM | $15,000 |
| EBLEN CHARITIES | $15,000 |
| EQUAL PLATES PROJECT | $15,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,001 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $10,000 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SAFELITE INC | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| CHARLIES ANGELS ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY FARM | $5,000 |
| BABIES NEED BOTTOMS | $2,638 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your 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.
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.
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…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To organize and mobilize community resources to improve lives of Henderson County residents.
Together we connect, share, and celebrate nutritious food, education and community.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
At WARM, we bring together volunteers and trusted contractors to take care of urgent home repairs-so people can live safely, independently, and with dignity. We focus on repairs that impact health and accessibility for homeowners who may…
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.
WNC Communities empowers the people of Western North Carolina to cultivate the vitality and prosperity of mountain communities through collaboration and agricultural opportunities. This mission is accomplished through a program of work…
To create a thriving, equitable food system by working with local farms to provide crucial access to fresh produce to food insecure people in Cleveland County.
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beloved Asheville and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Western North Carolina. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 WESTSIDE INNOVATIVE SCHOOL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Eblen Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds WEGIVEASHARE Inc ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Charlies Angels Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds Babies Need Bottoms 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 · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Diane Swift Modaff Foundation 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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