· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN PARKS AND GREENWAY F | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY BETTERMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CATHERINE'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ASHEVILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE OCOEE REGI | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- RHRising Hope Farms Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +7%
- CCRUone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
113 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. 113 of the 393 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN PARKS AND GREENWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BLESSINGS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ASHEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LEAF GLOBAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds Black Mountain Schools PTO ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hedrick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hedrick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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