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The Hedrick Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k92 grants · $158k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $126,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $25,000 |
| ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE REGIONAL SPORTS | $25,000 |
| ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $20,000 |
| BEARCATS ATHLETIC SUPPORT FOUNDATIO | $20,000 |
| BETHEL CHURCH OF MIDLAND | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUN | $12,500 |
| COMMUNITY BETTERMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN PARKS AND GREENWAY F | $10,000 |
| CATHERINE'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ASHEVILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE OCOEE REGI | $5,000 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $553k) 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 61 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k 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
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +329%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +27%
- CHCATHERINE'S HOUSE5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- GFGIFTS FOR ST NICHOLAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CCCAMPERS CARE LLCone grant, 2024 · $5k
- THTERRIE HESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.
To provide quality child care for working parents in Western North Carolina.
At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
Tohelpequipchildrenandteenstobelifelongfollowersofjesusthrough campministries.
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with gods people in need by building houses, so that there are decent homes in decent communities in whigh gods people…
Elk River Helping Hands Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting in the aftermath of catastrophic events with needs of the people of the High Country of North Carolina, including but not limited to Avery and Watauga…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnc Bridge Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dirty Bird Athletics. 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 25 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 393 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 BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VERNER INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds Buncombe County Schools Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds RiverLink Inc ↗
- Who funds Dream On 3 ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN PARKS AND GREENWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ASHEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BLESSINGS ↗
- Who funds LEAF GLOBAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds Camp Diversity Foundation 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 · Wnc Bridge Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · Manna Food Bank Inc · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn
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 Hedrick Family Foundation 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.
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