· Public charity
Region a Partnership for Children
To improve the quality of life for young children and families in western north carolina by encouraging advoccy, collaboration and funding services that focus on prevention and early intervention.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAYWOOD COUNTY SCHOOLS | $388,368 |
| CHEROKEE COUNTY SCHOOL | $356,624 |
| SWAIN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $341,744 |
| JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOLS | $335,792 |
| MACON COUNTY SCHOOLS | $285,696 |
| CHEROKEE CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $228,160 |
| GRAHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS | $223,200 |
| CLAY COUNTY SCHOOLS | $222,208 |
| MACON PROGRAM FOR PROGRESS | $194,880 |
| HAYWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $117,197 |
| LONG'S CHAPEL CHILD ENRICHMENT CENT | $116,478 |
| MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC | $80,640 |
| SOUTHWESTERN CHILD DEVELOPMENT COMM | $69,153 |
| SWAIN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $33,869 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 62% 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 +90% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $473k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMACON PROGRAM FOR PROGRESS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +38%
- MPMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +90%
- KIKARE Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +255% · 59% of their budget
Funded once
- FRFONTANA REGIONAL LIBRARY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue +28%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
5 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. 5 of the 23 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.
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 · Western North Carolina Regional · Dogwood Health Trust · North Carolina Community Foundation · North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc · Manna Food Bank Inc · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Nantahala Health Foundation · Nchsaa Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Great Smokies Health Foundation · NRA Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Region a Partnership for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Region a Partnership for Children. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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