· Private foundation
Dogwood Health Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $315k
- $10k–50k374 grants · $6.7M
- $50k–250k297 grants · $34M
- $250k+105 grants · $107M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $21,000,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC | $10,000,000 |
| SELF-HELP VENTURES FUND | $8,000,000 |
| MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC | $4,000,000 |
| IMPACT HEALTH | $4,000,000 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $3,000,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC | $2,237,500 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $2,085,482 |
| MOUNTAIN HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC | $2,000,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK INC | $2,000,000 |
| BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC | $2,000,000 |
| WNC COMMUNITIES | $1,500,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $1,187,150 |
| UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INCORPORATED | $1,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC | $1,000,000 |
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, $26.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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 9% of Dogwood Health Trust’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, 93% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 84% — 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 +56% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
398 repeat relationships — 294 still active in FY2024, 104 since wound down; 91 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36M 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
- IHIMPACT HEALTH3× · 2021–2024 · $18M · revenue +134% · 100% of their budget
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +139% · 35% of their budget
- SVSelf-Help Ventures Fund2× · 2022–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +98%
Funded once
- MAMARKETING ASSOCIATION FOR REHABILITATION CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.2M · revenue +517%
Habitat for Humanity of NC Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue ×16- NSNC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICSone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Housing Collaborative makes affordable housing easier to navigate by helping to secure rental housing for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness; and for those who have lost housing due to disaster or displacement. We make it easier…
The Counseling Center strives to strengthen families and individuals by providing access to quality mental health services regardless of financial ability.
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…
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…
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
The NCAAN improves the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and affected communities through outreach and public education, policy advocacy and community-building to increase visibility and mutual support of people living with HIV/AIDS…
A collaborative network that increases access and improves health outcomes for safety net populations in western north carolina
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
To advance the general welfare of the people of eastern north carolina through programs providing housing and childcare assistance as well as poverty elimination strategies to disadvantaged populations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Education Corps and the most unlike its peers is Tzedek Social Justice Fund. 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 25 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
521 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. 521 of the 805 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 APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Self-Help Ventures Fund ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVENS ESTATES INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WNC Communities ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HELPMATE INC ↗
- Who funds AMY WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMART START PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Tri-County Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Western North Carolina AIDS Project 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 · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Pisgah Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Impact Health · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · Gateway Wellness Foundation · Nantahala Health Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Henderson County United Way 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 Dogwood Health Trust 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.
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% 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.