· Private foundation
The Midgard Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pisgah Legal Service | $75,000 |
| Manna Food Bank | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of Buncombe County | $15,000 |
| Beloved Asheville | $10,000 |
| Warren Wilson College | $10,000 |
| Asheville Humane Society | $10,000 |
| Neighbors In Need | $5,000 |
| African Aquatic Conservation Fund | $5,000 |
| YMCA Northeastern Massachusetts | $3,500 |
| Western Carolina Rescue Ministries | $3,000 |
| The New London Homeless & Hospitality Ctr | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Artis-Naples | $2,500 |
| Deerwood Foundation | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +123% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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 SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $158k · revenue +139%
MANNA FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $153k · revenue +153%- BABELOVED ASHEVILLE4× · 2021–2024 · $54k · revenue +906%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of North Carolina Asheville R W Weatherhead International Scholone grant, 2023 · $40k
- AMAsheville Museum of Historyone grant, 2023 · $5k
- ODOpen Doors of Asheville Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +27%
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.
The mission of artsavl is to keep the arts at the heart of our community. the arts council fulfills its mission by supporting arts professionals and businesses in buncombe county through connection, advocacy, and grants.
The asheville museum of science (amos) is western north carolina's home for experiential science learning, discovery, and exploration. amos strives to spark the imagination and foster lifelong curiosity.
The North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
To resource, catalyze, and amplify how and why craft matters.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.
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…
The mission of Western North Carlina Historical Association is to preserve and promote the history and legacy of Western North Carolina through interpretation, education, collection, and collaboration.
Brother Wolf Animal Rescues mission is to better the lives of companion animals and the people who love them.
The collaborative's mission is to close the wealth gap in north carolina. we advocate on behalf of financially vulnerable communities by collaborating with financial institutions, nonprofits, and local government agencies across the state…
The mission of Asheville Poverty Initiative is to build community and educate about the realities of poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Mountain Bike Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 35 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 MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL-KIND INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYMEN INC ↗
- Who funds MemoryCare Inc ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Mountain Bike Association ↗
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: Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Midgard 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- African Aquatic Conservation Fund Inc — 55% of income from government
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
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.