· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKYLAND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| CLEAN ENERGY WORKS | $5,000 |
| RIVERLINK | $5,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIEN | $3,003 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FDTN | $2,500 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| LIVING HOPE CHURCH | $2,500 |
| AYRA | $1,250 |
| SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND | $1,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC RADIO | $365 |
| MEMORY CARE | $150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC4× · 2019–2022 · $54k · revenue +35%
- WFWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES4× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +27%
- CECLEAN ENERGY WORKS5× · 2018–2023 · $25k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- HIHOMEWORD INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -31%
- CFCampaign For Southern Equalitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +128%
- MFMISSION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
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.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CLEAN ENERGY WORKS ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RiverLink Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORD INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds PTA WW Estes Elementary ↗
- Who funds Campaign For Southern Equality ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE YOUTH ROWING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds MemoryCare Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
- Who funds STABLE RESOURCES ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hummel Hodges Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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