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Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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64% of Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Western North Carolina Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $38k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
9
’18
12
’19
7
’20
8
’21
11
’22
9
’23
0
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$166k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202311$38k18%
FY202212$30k25%
FY202110$44k30%
FY20208$33k13%
FY201918$41k44%
FY201813$23k38%
FY201712$16kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$105kReligion$79kEducation$76kHealth$46kEnvironment$30kHuman Services$11kCivil Rights$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Skyland United Methodist Church$74,1007n/a
French Broad River Academy Inc$54,00041%
Wake Forest University Health Sciences$33,50340%
Clean Energy Works$25,00051%
Wake Forest University$18,50070%
RiverLink Inc$5,46030%
Southerners on New Ground Inc$4,00070%
Breakthrough T1d$3,50020%
Living Hope Church Inc$3,5002n/a
Homeword Inc$2,00010%
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All grantees of Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Skyland United Methodist Church$74,1007n/a
French Broad River Academy Inc$54,00041%
Wake Forest University Health Sciences$33,50340%
Clean Energy Works$25,00051%
Wake Forest University$18,50070%
RiverLink Inc$5,46030%
Southerners on New Ground Inc$4,00070%
Breakthrough T1d$3,50020%
Living Hope Church Inc$3,5002n/a
Homeword Inc$2,00010%
Western N Carolina Public Radio$1,20570%
PTA WW Estes Elementary$1,1104n/a
Campaign For Southern Equality$1,00010%
Meredith College$1,00020%
Mission Foundation$5001n/a
The V Foundation$50010%
Asheville Youth Rowing Association$40010%
Burke United Christian Ministries$30010%
Children First Inc$3001n/a
MemoryCare Inc$15010%
Triangle Family Services Inc$10010%
Community Bible Study$10010%
Stable Resources$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFrench Broad River Academy Inc: $54,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWake Forest University Health Sciences: $33,503 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClean Energy Works: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWake Forest University: $18,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRiverLink Inc: $5,460 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSoutherners on New Ground Inc: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomeword Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern N Carolina Public Radio: $1,205 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeredith College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe V Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsheville Youth Rowing Association: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBurke United Christian Ministries: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemoryCare Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTriangle Family Services Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStable Resources: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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 IncNC19.3× affinity7 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 · Duke Energy Foundation · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc

How much does Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc give?
Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $38,268 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Religion (22%), Education (21%).
Who are Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Skyland United Methodist Church ($74k), French Broad River Academy Inc ($54k), Wake Forest University Health Sciences ($34k).
Does Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc based?
Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 35 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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