· Private foundation
Hunter Hometown Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Working Wheels Inc | $20,000 |
| SAHC | $15,000 |
| Brevard Music Center | $13,000 |
| Open Doors Asheville | $13,000 |
| Free Rein Horse Center | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Working Wheels Inc | $5,500 |
| Safelight | $5,500 |
| Sparkpoint | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Hope Coalition | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| YMCA | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Open Doors Asheville | $5,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCConserving Carolina4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +234%
- BRBlue Ridge Humane Society Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $53k · revenue +57%
- HCHope Coalition Corp2× · 2023–2024 · $31k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Brevardone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FSFOUR SEASONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Asheville GreenWorks inspires, equips and mobilizes communities to create an equitable climate-resilient future.
As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…
Our main program is providing vet care to animals dropped at or rescued from the local animal shelter. This is the only service we provide and where our expenses go. We spay/neuter animals adopted from the shelter and provide vet care to…
WNC Communities empowers the people of Western North Carolina to cultivate the vitality and prosperity of mountain communities through collaboration and agricultural opportunities. This mission is accomplished through a program of work…
The mission of the Balsam Mountain Trust is the stewardship of the natural and cultural resources on Balsam Mountain Preserve and the southern Blue Ridge Mountain region, achieved through effective land management practices, scientific…
The Friends is a conservation organization that inspires a passion to know more, care more, and do more for the wildlife of the Southern Appalachians. We advance the critical work of the Nature Center through fundraising, membership,…
Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…
Since 1876, the Appalachian Mountain Club has promoted the protection, enjoyment, and understanding of the mountains, forests, waters, and trails of the Appalachian region. We are the nation's oldest outdoor recreation and conservation…
Performing activities pursuant to the maintenance and preservation of natural areas for the benefit of the public
The Humane Society Hardy County strives reduce feral animal populations while enhancing the health of our communities and providing for those animals that may be adopted, a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment.
The mission of Carolina Basset Hound Rescue is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome unwanted basset hounds in North Carolina and South Carolina.
To initiate actions that will improve economic conditions, enhance and/or preserve natural resources and balance land and water management activities in a widely divergent geographic area of North Carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asheville Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Key Learning Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 66 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
- Who funds Blue Ridge Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Hope Coalition Corp ↗
- Who funds Charlies Angels Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds W4H ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds Organic Growers School Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds SAFELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds KEY LEARNING CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · Pisgah Health Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Fletcher Hospital Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation
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 Hunter Hometown Foundation 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.
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.
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