· Public charity
Lake Toxaway Charities
To support the charities, medical outreach, and educators who work with and minister to the abused, disabled, indigent and those with special needs in transylvania county, north carolina.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 49 grants below total $727,150 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $769,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,600 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $492k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GODS WAY FELLOWSHIP FOOD PANTRY | $58,000 |
| TRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $57,400 |
| ROSMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| THE FAMILY PLACE OF TRANSYLVANIA CO | $35,000 |
| THE BREAD OF LIFE | $25,000 |
| SAFE | $22,000 |
| THE TRANSYLVANIA CNTY HUNGER COALIT | $20,000 |
| THE HAVEN OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY | $20,000 |
| MOUNTAIN ROOTS | $20,000 |
| ANCHOR BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS CENTER | $19,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY | $18,500 |
| NEIGHBORS IN MINISTRY INC | $18,000 |
| PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTIT | $18,000 |
| THE CINDY PLATT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $18,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $980k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- SASHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC8× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +47%
- TCTRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $217k · revenue +127%
- THTRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +920%
Funded once
- TGTHE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GODone grant, 2019 · $31k
- PHPisgah Health Foundationone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -72%
- PMPARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue +17%
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.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
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.
To provide emergency and rescue services to the citizens and visitors of the city of brevard and transylvania county north carolina.
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…
To provide affordable housing and housing opportunites for current and future Transylvania County community members, with particular focus on housing for those households at 80-120% of area median income.
The Counseling Center strives to strengthen families and individuals by providing access to quality mental health services regardless of financial ability.
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.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transylvania Vocational Services in and the most unlike its peers is Hunger Coalition of Transylvania Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
53 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. 53 of the 71 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 TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER AVAILABLE FOR FAMILY EMERGENCY (SAFE) INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Center of Transylvania County Inc ↗
- Who funds Neighbors in Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds The Haven of Transylvania County ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Family Place of Transylvania County ↗
- Who funds Hunger Coalition of Transylvania Co ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Roots Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE TOXAWAY COMMUNITY CLUB ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Isaac Homes Youth Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF BREVARD INC ↗
- Who funds BOUND FOR GLORY INC ↗
- Who funds MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist ↗
- Who funds FREE REIN INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT-BREVARD ↗
- Who funds CENTRO COMUNITARIO HISPANO- AMERICANO INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Bread of Life Inc ↗
- Who funds BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THROUGH THE TREES ↗
- Who funds LET'S GO BOYS AND GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Health For All ↗
- Who funds Muddy Sneakers Inc ↗
- Who funds Cove Shelter ↗
- Who funds Four Seasons Compassion for Life Foundation ↗
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 · Dogwood Health Trust · Pisgah Health Foundation · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Manna Food Bank Inc · Audrey Love Charitable Foundation · Henderson County United Way Inc · Comporium Foundation Inc · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · United Community Bank 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 Lake Toxaway Charities 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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