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The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn at a glance

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The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn

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.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$552kEducation$308kArts & Culture$192kHuman Services$146kHousing & Shelter$138kCrime & Legal$125kScience & Tech$70kFood & Nutrition$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $137k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $163k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES$25,000
NC CHAPTER OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$20,000
WARREN WILSON COLLEGE$15,000
GO GLOBAL NC - TEACHER SCHOLARSHIPS$13,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$10,000
NC ARBORETUM SOCIETY$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND OF NC$10,000
ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA ARTS FOUNDATION (NCAF)$10,000
OPEN DOORS OF ASHEVILLE$10,000
HOMEWARD BOUND$10,000
YWCA$10,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$10,000
HELPMATE$8,000
WORTHAM CENTER (PACK PL PERFORMING ARTS)$8,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NC ARTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 13%MUDDY SNEAKERS: $10k → 13%MUDDY SNEAKERS: $10k → 13%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 13%MUDDY SNEAKERS: $9k → 13%NC CHAPTER OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 11%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 13%MUDDY SNEAKERS: $8k → 13%NC CHAPTER OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 11%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 13%NC CHAPTER OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 11%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 13%NC CHAPTER OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 11%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 13%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND OF NC: $10k → 8%NC CHAPTER OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $18k → 11%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND OF NC: $10k → 8%NC CHAPTER OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $18k → 11%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND OF NC: $10k → 8%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND OF NC: $8k → 8%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND OF NC: $8k → 8%GO GLOBAL NC FOR GLOBAL TEACHERS COMMUNITY: $22k → 11%GO GLOBAL NC - TEACHERS SCHOLARSHIPS: $13k → 11%PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $20k → 12%GO GLOBAL NC - TEACHERS SCHOLARSHIPS: $13k → 11%YWCA: $10k → 12%GO GLOBAL NC: $10k → 11%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 12%YWCA: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 12%WORTHAM CENTER (PACK PLACE PERFORMING ARTS): $10k → 12%YWCA: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ASHEVILLE: $10k → 12%YWCA: $10k → 12%YWCA: $10k → 12%WORTHAM CENTER: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 12%YWCA: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $10k → 12%OPEN DOORS OF ASHEVILLE: $10k → 12%NC ARBORETUM SOCIETY: $10k → 12%NC ARBORETUM SOCIETY: $10k → 12%NC ARBORETUM SOCIETY: $10k → 12%NC ARBORETUM SOCIETY: $10k → 12%ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 12%ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 12%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 56 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
10

Total granted

$1.7M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+115%

Still filing today

61%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PL
    PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +139%
  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +46%
  • OD
    Open Doors of Asheville Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • GG
    GO GLOBAL NC FOR GLOBAL TEACHERS COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2021 · $22k
  • GG
    Go Global NC Council Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +115%
  • WC
    WORTHAM CENTER (PACK PLACE PERFORMING ARTS)
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Conservation Trust for North Carolina

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…

Environment
2
Catawba Lands Conservancy

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…

Environment
3
Wnc Communities

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Mountain Valleys Resource Conservation & Development Council

To initiate actions that will improve economic conditions, enhance and/or preserve natural resources and balance land and water management activities in a widely divergent geographic area of North Carolina.

Environment
5
Balsam Mountain Trust

The mission of the Balsam Mountain Trust is the stewardship of the natural and cultural resources on Balsam Mountain Preserve and the southern Blue Ridge Mountain region, achieved through effective land management practices, scientific…

Environment
6
Mountain Conservation Trust of Georgia Inc

To promote permanent conservation of the natural resources and scenic beauty of the mountains and foothills of north georgia through land protection, collaborative partnerships and education.

Environment
7
Asheville-Buncombe Community Land Trust

To Provide affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.

Housing & Shelter
8
Davidson Lands Conservancy Inc

The mission of the Davidson Lands Conservancy is to protect local lands and natural resources, connect lives to nature, and promote a conservation ethic. The Conservancy advances its work through four conservation programs or pillars: land…

Environment
9
North Carolina League of Conservation Voters Foundation

NCLCVF engages people to protect our environment and promote the well-being of our communities. We work to turn environmental values into NC priorities by engaging people in the democratic process, organizing in communities first and worst…

Environment
10
Three Rivers Land Trust Inc

Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland

Environment
11
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
12
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Conservation Network; the most unlike its peers is Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center Inc. 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

37 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. 37 of the 66 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
31/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NC CHAPTER OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $116,000 · OtherNC CHAPTER OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCYSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $110,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERYWCA: $60,000 · OtherYWCAENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND OF NC: $54,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND OF NCNC ARBORETUM SOCIETY: $53,000 · OtherNC ARTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $38,000 · OtherMuddy Sneakers Inc: $37,000 · Other+37 more: $540,200 · Other+37 moreOpen Doors of Asheville Inc: $94,000 · EducationOpen Doors…WARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationWARREN WIL…Organic Growers School Inc: $6,000 · EducationMountainTrue: $29,000 · EnvironmentMountainT…Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy: $28,000 · EnvironmentSouthern …NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $28,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CAR…EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC: $21,200 · EnvironmentEAST COAS…Conserving Carolina: $20,200 · EnvironmentConservin…TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $12,000 · EnvironmentTRIANGLE …Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: $6,000 · EnvironmentHOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $56,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMEWARD …ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $52,000 · Housing & ShelterASHEVILLE…MOUNTAIN HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterMOUNTAIN …PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $125,000 · Crime & LegalPenland School Of Craft: $28,000 · Arts & CultureAsheville Art Museum Association Inc: $27,000 · Arts & CultureASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $18,000 · Arts & CultureASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $13,000 · Arts & CultureASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLEAF GLOBAL ARTS: $7,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER INC: $5,600 · Arts & CultureMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $39,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,008,200Education$165,000Environment$144,400Housing & Shelter$138,000Crime & Legal$125,000Arts & Culture$108,600Food & Nutrition$39,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $125,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Doors of Asheville Inc: $94,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $56,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $52,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMuddy Sneakers Inc: $37,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHELPMATE INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRiverLink Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMountainTrue: $29,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPartnership for Appalachian Girls Education: $28,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $28,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVERNER INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAsheville Art Museum Association Inc: $27,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAsheville GreenWorks: $27,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetEAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC: $21,200 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetConserving Carolina: $20,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY: $20,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNorth Carolina Arts Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $18,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $13,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGo Global NC Council Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLEAF GLOBAL ARTS: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOrganic Growers School Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER INC: $5,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION: $5,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHILOH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Together: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
  • Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Muddy Sneakers Inc ↗
  • Who funds HELPMATE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds RiverLink Inc ↗
  • Who funds MountainTrue ↗
  • Who funds Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds Partnership for Appalachian Girls Education ↗
  • Who funds ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
  • Who funds VERNER INC ↗
  • Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Asheville GreenWorks ↗
  • Who funds EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
  • Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds North Carolina Arts Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Go Global NC Council Inc ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Dogwood Health TrustRichard Eckerd Founda…Foundation for the Ca…Wnc Bridge FoundationThe Cannon Foundation…The Goodman Foundatio…The Hedrick Family Fo…Bailey Family Foundat…Community Foundation …Walnut Cove Members A…United Way of Ashevil…
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC58.3× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Wnc Bridge Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Goodman Foundation Inc · The Hedrick Family Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc

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 Frances & William H Beattie Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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