· Public charity
The Givens Estates Inc
Improving lives through communities, services, and outreach core values our core values are commitment, caring, courage and collaboration.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $35,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,435,152 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,400,152 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Asheville Symphony | $15,000 |
| Four Seasons Foundation | $10,000 |
| Haywood Street Community Development | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- MAMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $146k · revenue +148%
- MIMemoryCare Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $139k · revenue +30%
- UWUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $78k · revenue +209%
Funded once
- CCCHRISTIAN CHURCH OF HOPEone grant, 2022 · $11k
- COCOUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -39%
- SVSWANNANOA VALLEY CHRISTIAN MINISTRYone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
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.
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…
Our Mission - We aspire to a Higher Standard of Care. We are dedicated to being recognized as the hospice of choice in our community and for being the most respected and trusted experts in palliative and hospice care.
To promote the science, art and practice of psychiatry and to maintain high professional standards in this field in the state of North Carolina.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
The main areas of emphasis for Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission are to attract sports events, generate positive economic development, and provide wellness programs that enhance the quality of life for the residents of Buncombe…
All Souls Counseling Centers (ASCC) mission is to serve as a leading nonprofit provider and community partner for quality mental health counseling, outreach, and education with a focus on those who are underinsured and uninsured in Western…
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haywood Street Community Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MemoryCare Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEADINGAGE NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Four Seasons Compassion for Life Foundation ↗
- Who funds Asheville Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Haywood Street Community Development ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Ridge Pride Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Children FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County 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 · Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Deerfield Charitable Foundation · Mission Hospital Inc · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Pisgah Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson 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 Givens Estates 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.