· Private foundation
The Midgard 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICE | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ASHEVILLE | $40,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| WARREN WILSON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORS IN NEED | $10,000 |
| AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND | $4,000 |
| AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND | $4,000 |
| YWCA NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| DEERWOOD FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL KIND INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES | $2,500 |
| HAYWOOD STREET CONGREGATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +110% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $283k · revenue +139%
MANNA FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +153%- AHASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of North Carolina Asheville R W Weatherhead International Scholone grant, 2023 · $40k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $40k
- AMAsheville Museum of Historyone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.
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.
Brother Wolf Animal Rescues mission is to better the lives of companion animals and the people who love them.
The Friends is a conservation organization that inspires a passion to know more, care more, and do more for the wildlife of the Southern Appalachians. We advance the critical work of the Nature Center through fundraising, membership,…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
To resource, catalyze, and amplify how and why craft matters.
The North Carolina Glass Center is dedicated to education, exploration and collaboration in all forms of glass.
Our mission is to shelter, rehabilitate and adopt stray and unwanted dogs and cats of Yancey County into permanent loving homes and provide compassionate, humane and educational services to improve animal welfare.
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…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 40 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
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 PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AQUATIC CONSERVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL-KIND INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MemoryCare Inc ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Salt Marsh Opera Company ↗
- Who funds GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Strays Inc ↗
- Who funds Colorado Mountain Bike Association ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Midgard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Midgard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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