· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND OF NC | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| YWCA | $10,000 |
| ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| OPEN DOORS OF ASHEVILLE | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA ARTS FOUNDATION (NCAF) | $10,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| NC ARBORETUM SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| WORTHAM CENTER (PACK PL PERFORMING ARTS) | $8,000 |
| HELPMATE | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of your 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.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +139%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +46%- ODOpen Doors of Asheville Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- GGGO GLOBAL NC FOR GLOBAL TEACHERS COMMUNITYone grant, 2021 · $22k
- GGGo Global NC Council Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +115%
- WCWORTHAM CENTER (PACK PLACE PERFORMING ARTS)one grant, 2021 · $10k
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
To Provide affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.
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…
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…
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Conservation Network and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 66 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 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 Partnership for Appalachian Girls Education ↗
- Who funds Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
- Who funds VERNER INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville GreenWorks ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY 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 · 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
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 Frances & William H Beattie Fdn 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.