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Gateway Wellness Foundation

To improve the health and well-being of all people and communities within all counties of western north carolina.

$990k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.9MHousing & Shelter$590kFood & Nutrition$529kEducation$516kHuman Services$394kYouth Development$337kPublic Safety & Disaster$302kPhilanthropy$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 54 grants below total $844,036, the rows itemized in this filing. The $990,372 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $146,336 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $438k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $275k
$10,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DHT POLK COUNTY LTRG$75,000
POLK COUNTY SCHOOLS$50,000
BURKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$50,000
RUTHERFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS$50,000
MCDOWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS$50,000
GOOD SAMARTIAN CLINIC INC$30,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON CLASSICAL ACADEMY$24,900
BURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY$20,000
BRIGHTER HOUSE$20,000
RUTHERFORD COUNTY SENIOR CENTER$18,000
RUTHERFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS$18,000
BURKE COUNTY SENOIR CENTER$15,800
BURKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$15,800
NEW DIMENSION SCHOOL$15,000
BLACK MOUNTAIN COUNSELING CENTER$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%QUALITY COMPCALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLATIVE CARE: $10k → 16%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $32k → 16%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 16%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 13%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 16%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 16%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 16%OUT OF THE ASHES: $19k → 16%HICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH: $12k → 16%HICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH: $10k → 16%MCDOWELL MISSION MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%YOKEFELLOW SERVICE CENTER: $25k → 16%MISSION MINISTRIES ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%YOKEFELLOW SERVICE CENTER: $13k → 16%LOVING HEARTS BEAR CLOSET: $10k → 16%RUTHERFORD HOME PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 16%MCDOWELL MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $7k → 16%RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $20k → 16%GRAHAMTOWN TEAM INC: $10k → 16%GRAHAMTOWN TEAM: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 48 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
53

Total granted

$3.8M
$878k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+10%

Still filing today

77%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    CAREREACH INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $409k · revenue +28% · 59% of their budget
  • ML
    MCDOWELL LFAC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +527% · 28% of their budget
  • RH
    RUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $122k · revenue +259%

Funded once

  • EP
    E POLK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +68%
  • SL
    St Lukes Hospital
    one grant, 2021 · $42k · revenue -91%
  • MH
    Mosaic Hope
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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2
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
3
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.

Housing & Shelter
4
Robeson Health Care Corporation

Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.

Health
5
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
6
Tri-County Community Health Council Inc

Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.

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7
Carolina Community Care Inc

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,…

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8
Monroe-Union County Community

To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.

Housing & Shelter
9
The Care Clinic Inc

To provide primary health care for limited income persons residing in cumberland county, nc and surrounding areas who are without adequate health insurance benefits

—
10
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
11
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
12
Warren-Vance Community Health Center Inc

The clinic provides primary healthcare in a spirit of compassion to limited income persons who are without adequate health insurance benefits in warren and vance counties, north carolina.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western North Carolina Community Health Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Loving Hearts for Christ Bear Closet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 116 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/76
Grantees still filing
40/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Polk County Schools: $181,850 · OtherPolk County SchoolsBURKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $130,800 · OtherBURKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLMCDOWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS: $123,000 · OtherMCDOWELL COUNTY SCHOOLSCOUNTY OF MCDOWELL: $116,276 · OtherCOUNTY OF MCDOWELLANC MISSION MEDICAL ASSOCIATES INC: $111,497 · OtherANC MISSION MEDICAL ASSOCIATES INCRutherford County Schools: $107,200 · OtherBURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $75,500 · OtherDHT POLK COUNTY LTRG: $75,000 · OtherRUTHERFORD COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $70,000 · Other+58 more: $1,069,365 · Other+58 moreANC MCDOWELL HOSPITAL INC: $478,982 · HealthANC MCDOWELL HOSPITAL INCCAREREACH INC: $409,350 · HealthCAREREACH INCCARENET COUNSELING OF MARION: $291,945 · HealthCARENET COUNSELING OF MARIONCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $89,564 · HealthCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN+12 more: $272,061 · Health+12 moreBLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationBLUE RIDGE …HIGHER ACADEMIA CORPORATION: $60,000 · EducationHIGHER ACAD…Classical Academies CFA Inc: $50,000 · EducationClassical A…E POLK INC: $49,882 · EducationE POLK INCMosaic Hope: $40,000 · EducationMosaic HopeRutherford County Schools Education Foundation: $38,000 · EducationRutherford …Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy: $35,900 · EducationThomas Jeff…The New Dimensions School Inc: $35,000 · EducationThe New Dim…ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $29,500 · EducationISOTHERMAL …DEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · EducationDEAF AND BL…THE HUB OF MCDOWELL INC: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $22,000 · EducationRUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $121,960 · Human ServicesYokefellow Service Center: $37,500 · Human ServicesTHE MEETING PLACE ONE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesMission Ministries Alliance: $26,500 · Human ServicesHICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH INC: $22,400 · Human ServicesGrahamtown Team: $20,000 · Human ServicesOUT OF THE ASHES INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesBabies Need Bottoms Inc: $16,160 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesMCDOWELL LFAC: $205,102 · Food & NutritionTHERMAL BELT OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $83,300 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $22,200 · Food & NutritionCentro Unido Latino Americano: $101,500 · Arts & CultureEAGLE MARKET STREETS DEVELOPMENT CO: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFreedom Life Ministries: $76,000 · Crime & LegalABOUNDING GRACE MINISTRY INC: $19,140 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,060,488Health$1,541,902Education$482,782Human Services$333,520Food & Nutrition$310,602Arts & Culture$116,500Crime & Legal$95,140

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANC MCDOWELL HOSPITAL INC: $478,982 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAREREACH INC: $409,350 over 4y, 59% of budgetCARENET COUNSELING OF MARION: $291,945 over 4y, 17% of budgetMCDOWELL LFAC: $205,102 over 3y, 28% of budgetRUTHERFORD HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $121,960 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetANC MISSION MEDICAL ASSOCIATES INC: $111,497 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentro Unido Latino Americano: $101,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $89,564 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHERMAL BELT OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $83,300 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetFreedom Life Ministries: $76,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $75,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetRUTHERFORD COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $70,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHIGHER ACADEMIA CORPORATION: $60,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetClassical Academies CFA Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY: $50,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetE POLK INC: $49,882 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPS TO HOPE INC: $42,588 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSt Lukes Hospital: $41,690 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMosaic Hope: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRutherford County Schools Education Foundation: $38,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetYokefellow Service Center: $37,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetANC HEALTHCARE INC: $37,371 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson Classical Academy: $35,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEETING PLACE ONE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetThe New Dimensions School Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBURKE PSYCHOSOCIAL SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $29,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ENOLA GROUP: $28,458 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMission Ministries Alliance: $26,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN COUNSELING CENTER IN: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHICKORY NUT GORGE OUTREACH INC: $22,400 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE HUB OF MCDOWELL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGrahamtown Team: $20,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetWOODLAWN-SEVIER VOLUNTARY FIRE DEPT: $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSIXTH AVENUE PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION PARTNERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSISTERS OF MERCY URGENT CARE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetABOUNDING GRACE MINISTRY INC: $19,140 over 1y, 19% of budgetOUT OF THE ASHES INC: $19,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Dogwood Health TrustWnc Bridge FoundationCarolina Foothills Fo…The Cannon Foundation…Rhi Legacy Foundation…Rostan Family Foundat…Manna Food Bank IncThe Golden Leaf IncCommunity Foundation …Polk County Community…Co Ta Huffman-Cornwel…
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC103.1× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Carolina Foothills Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Rhi Legacy Foundation Inc · Rostan Family Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · Community Foundation of Burke County · Polk County Community Foundation Inc · Co Ta Huffman-Cornwell Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gateway Wellness Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gateway Wellness Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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