How much does Henderson County United Way Inc give?

Henderson County United Way Inc reported 43 grants totaling $1,092,382 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Henderson County United Way Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Philanthropy (15%), Youth Development (13%).

Who are Henderson County United Way Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Club of Henderson County/Hendersonville Inc ($843k), Safelight Inc ($679k), Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc ($563k).

Does Henderson County United Way Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Henderson County United Way Inc based?

Henderson County United Way Inc is based in NC.

Henderson County United Way Inc

Henderson County United Way Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Henderson County United Way Inc

To organize and mobilize community resources to improve lives of Henderson County residents.

$1.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$228k

Largest

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

02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

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

SI
SAFELIGHT INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $679k · revenue +154%
CF
CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $563k · revenue +136%
PL
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%

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.

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

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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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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High Country Behavioral Health

HCBH provides mental health and substance abuse counseling.

Health

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

Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

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

Covenant HomeCare

Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Aging Partners Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/52

Grantees still filing

38/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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

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 Henderson County United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henderson County United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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

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.

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