How much did Henderson County United Way Inc grant in FY2025?

Health$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.2MYouth Development$1.0MHuman Services$897kEducation$891kHousing & Shelter$871kFood & Nutrition$759kCrime & Legal$527kOther$0

02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k38 grants · $739k
$50k–250k3 grants · $337k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Housing Assistance	$227,500
Interfaith Assistance Ministry	$55,472
Boys & Girls Club of Henderson Co	$54,207
Literacy Connection aka Blue Ridge	$44,050
Safelight	$43,820
Henderson County Rescue Squad	$43,000
Children & Family Resource Center	$41,446
Pisgah Legal Services	$41,024
Manna Food Bank	$35,360
Sixth Avenue Psychiatric Rehab	$32,021
Woven Nonprofit Corporation	$30,000
The Free Clinics	$27,765
Calvary Episcopal Church Food Pantry	$24,601
Smart Start Partnership for Children	$23,628
Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC	$20,894

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $451k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.5M · 38 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.5M

$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%

+106%

Still filing today

92%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther

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

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SAFELIGHT INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $679k · revenue +154%
CF
CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $563k · revenue +136%
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PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES
9× · 2017–2025 · $514k · revenue +274%

Funded once

HB
HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue +136%
BR
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +271%
TB
THERMAL BELT OUTREACH MINISTRY INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +106%

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

04Your field

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.

Wnc Health Network Inc

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

Health

The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc

The hunger and health coalition relieves poverty and hunger for households experiencing economic hardship and food insecurity. we serve low-income and uninsured residents of avery, watauga and ashe counties who are forced to choose between…

Food & Nutrition

United Way of Henderson County

To service as a centralized agency for charitable donations.

Philanthropy

Haywood Pathways Center Inc

Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.

Housing & Shelter

First Choice Community Health Ctrs

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

Health

Henderson County Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

The chamber is a membership organization, a voluntary partnership of business and professional people working together for the benefit of all, presenting one voice to build a healthy economy and improve the quality of life in henderson…

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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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United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy

Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

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.

Housing & Shelter

High Country Behavioral Health

HCBH provides mental health and substance abuse counseling.

Health

Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services

Housing Collaborative

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…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Aging Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Only Hope Wnc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/62

the rest of the field

10%

217/2,145

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/52

Grantees still filing

39/52

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,965,755Philanthropy$1,256,355Health$1,187,335Youth Development$842,779Human Services$575,224Crime & Legal$537,425Education$531,016

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC75.1× affinity37 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 · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Pisgah Health Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Impact Health · Fletcher Hospital Inc · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Lake Toxaway Charities · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County 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 Henderson County United Way 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Henderson County United Way Inc?

Find your warmest path to Henderson County United Way Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines