· Community foundation
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc
The community foundation of western north carolina promotes and expands regional philanthropy and develops local funds that address changing needs and opportunities in the 18 counties of western north carolina.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 793 grants below total $59,393,771 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $61,908,745 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,514,974 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 $10k115 grants · $828k
- $10k–50k414 grants · $9.4M
- $50k–250k221 grants · $21M
- $250k+43 grants · $29M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNA FOODBANK | $3,940,967 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SYNOD | $2,025,000 |
| ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $2,021,538 |
| ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY (ABCCM) | $1,974,905 |
| NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST MEN | $1,525,000 |
| MOUNTAIN BIZWORKS (MOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC) | $1,151,250 |
| WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (WRESA) | $1,059,800 |
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY | $714,320 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $646,034 |
| WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION | $559,605 |
| DBA ARTSAVL (ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL) | $556,180 |
| CENTER FOR CRAFT & DESIGN | $554,500 |
| FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $545,763 |
| HELPMATE | $526,770 |
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 (FY21–25, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
611 repeat relationships — 479 still active in FY2025, 132 since wound down; 274 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M 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
MANNA FOOD BANK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +82%- AAASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +129%
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES5× · 2021–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +122%
Funded once
- NSNC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +5%
- BVBarnardsville Volunteer Fire Departmentone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +5%
- MBMERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $123k · revenue -42%
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Improving health and well-being for those living in westernmost North Carolina.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
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 advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Nccadv leads the state's movement to end domestic violence and to enhance work with survivors through collaborations, innovative trainings, prevention, technical assistance, state policy development and legal advocacy.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnc Bridge Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Save Valley Conservancy Fund. 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 27 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
886 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. 886 of the 1,144 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds The University of North Carolina at Asheville Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds KL TRAINING SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HELPMATE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL ↗
- Who funds NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RiverLink Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds W4H ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project ↗
- Who funds Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Western North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Asheville GreenWorks ↗
- Who funds MUSICWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Valleys Resource Conservation & Development Council ↗
- Who funds MemoryCare Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES 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: Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Pisgah Health Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Impact Health · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · Gateway Wellness Foundation · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Nantahala Health 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 The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc 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.