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The Alfred B and Josette L Glover Foundation at a glance

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The Alfred B and Josette L Glover Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$29kArts & Culture$21kReligion$6kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$3kFood & Nutrition$3kEnvironment$525Community Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600
Median grant
2
States reached
$92k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASHE SHARING CENTER$1,000
WOMENS FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE$600
GLADYS LOVE PROJECT$250
HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WOMENS FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $1k → 21%WOMENS FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $930 → 21%WOMENS FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $600 → 21%WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK: $200 → 21%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS: $200 → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24k · 4 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against +71% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
25

Total granted

$24k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+71%

Still filing today

50%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WC
    WEST CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $17k
  • WF
    Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $3k · revenue +145%
  • AS
    ASHE SHARING CENTER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $3k

Funded once

  • SD
    SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +423%
  • NU
    Northwood University
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +24%
  • SA
    SEIGLE AVE FIRST CHURCH OF GOD
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
3
Ashe County Recovery and Restoration

Ashe County Recovery and Restoration was established in October 2024 in response to the devastation in Ashe County, nc that occured as a result of Hurricane Helene.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Asheville Watchdog

Our nbsp;mission nbsp;is nbsp;to nbsp;inform nbsp;and nbsp;engage nbsp;the nbsp;citizens nbsp;of nbsp;asheville nbsp;and nbsp;surrounding nbsp;communities nbsp;by nbsp;providing nbsp;fair nbsp;factual nbsp;and nbsp;reliable nbsp;in-depth…

Arts & Culture
5
Ashe County Transportation Authority

Public transportation services to the general public including the elderly and disabled population

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6
Asheville Medical Research and Education Corporation

Medical research and education

Health
7
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
8
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
9
Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc

The nc ahec program provides and supports educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy…

Education
10
Asheville Area Arts Council

The mission of artsavl is to keep the arts at the heart of our community. the arts council fulfills its mission by supporting arts professionals and businesses in buncombe county through connection, advocacy, and grants.

Arts & Culture
11
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

—
12
Ashe Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Ashe memorial hospital foundation's mission is to promote all activities of ashe memorial hospital.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atrium Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Fairleigh Dickinson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL: $16,500 · OtherWEST CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOLSEIGLE AVE FIRST CHURCH OF GOD: $5,000 · OtherSEIGLE AVE FIRST CHURCH OF GODAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITYAPPLACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT: $3,000 · OtherAPPLACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATAN APPALACHIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL: $3,000 · OtherAN APPALACHIAN SUMMER FESTIVALHARVEY B GANTT CENTER FOR AFRICAN A: $2,500 · OtherHARVEY B GANTT CENTER FOR AFRICAN AASHE SHARING CENTER: $2,500 · OtherASHE SHARING CENTERASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $1,500 · Other+9 more: $3,200 · Other+9 moreSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $12,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY F…MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $875 · Arts & CultureMINT MUSEUM OF ART INCNorthwood University: $5,000 · EducationNorthwood…Fairleigh Dickinson University: $500 · EducationFairleigh…PARTNERSHIP OF ASHE: $250 · EducationWomens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc: $2,730 · Human ServicesHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $200 · Human ServicesThe Western Youth Network Inc: $200 · Human ServicesASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $200 · HealthASHE CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $100 · Health+1 more: $50 · HealthEAST CHOP ASSOCIATION INC: $525 · EnvironmentFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $365 · Philanthropy
Other$40,200Arts & Culture$13,375Education$5,750Human Services$3,130Health$2,600Environment$525Philanthropy$365

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwood University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc: $2,730 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $365 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP OF ASHE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Western Youth Network Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Blue Ridge Energy Mem…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Blue Ridge Energy Members FoundationNC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Alfred B and Josette L Glover Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alfred B and Josette L Glover Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Alfred B and Josette L Glover Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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