· Private foundation
Richard Eckerd 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 74 grants below total $197,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $234,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,500 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k72 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation of Western North Carolina | $28,200 |
| Helpmate, Inc. | $25,000 |
| Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy | $5,000 |
| Pisgah Legal Services | $5,000 |
| YMCA | $5,000 |
| United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County | $4,000 |
| MANNA Foodbank, Inc. | $4,000 |
| Tulane University | $4,000 |
| St. Eugene Catholic Church | $3,000 |
| Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity | $3,000 |
| Marian High School | $3,000 |
| Homeward Bound of WNC | $3,000 |
| Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry | $3,000 |
| Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College Foundation | $3,000 |
| Asheville City Schools Foundation | $3,000 |
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 +51% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- HBHOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +56%
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy4× · 2021–2024 · $37k · revenue +247%- HIHELPMATE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +175%
Funded once
- ECEblen Charities Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +125%
- CFCitizens for Responsible Land Usageone grant, 2023 · $2k
- TITOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +36%
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.
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…
To protect, restore, and inspire appreciation of the natural world.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
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…
Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health, safety, and independence of homebound older adults by providing nutritious, home-delivered meals and meaningful moments of…
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
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,…
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…
The mission of beloved asheville is to cultivate a transformational way of life rooted in community, creativity, and equity. we bring together people from all walks of life to create innovative solutions to some of the toughest challenges…
To resource, catalyze, and amplify how and why craft matters.
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnc Bridge Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Jason Project Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 87 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds HELPMATE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Asheville Glass Art School ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RiverLink Inc ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds LEAF GLOBAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
- Who funds Asheville GreenWorks ↗
- Who funds WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY MERCY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc · The Hedrick Family 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.