· Public charity
United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc
We mobilize and support a robust network of people, partners, and resources to co-create opportunities for every person in our community to live free from poverty and injustice.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $3,395,824 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,732,376 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,336,552 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $253k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,557,800 |
| GIVEDIRECTLY INC | $332,200 |
| HAWK MARKETPLACE | $170,000 |
| BUNCOMBE COUNTY SCHOOLS | $111,102 |
| HEARTS WITH HANDS | $100,000 |
| ASHEVILLE CREATIVE AVE | $100,000 |
| CORE | $100,000 |
| COLABORATIVA LA MILPA | $65,000 |
| OPEN DOORS ASHEVILLE | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR PARTICIPATORY CHANGE | $50,000 |
| READ TO SUCCEED | $50,000 |
| REPARATIONS STAKEHOLDER AUTHORITY | $50,000 |
| RACIAL JUSTICE OF ASHEVILLE INC | $50,000 |
| OPERATION GATEWAY INC | $50,000 |
| BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
50 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 24 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, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M 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
- YOYWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $716k · revenue +36%
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES6× · 2017–2022 · $621k · revenue +274%
- HBHOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC6× · 2017–2022 · $489k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- BRBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $289k · revenue +63%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue +270%
- SCSHILOH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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 the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
Asheville GreenWorks inspires, equips and mobilizes communities to create an equitable climate-resilient future.
The mission of Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte is repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives.We mobilize community volunteers and contractors to provide repairs that make homes safer and healthier for…
The Counseling Center strives to strengthen families and individuals by providing access to quality mental health services regardless of financial ability.
Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western North Carolina Community Health Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kl Training Solutions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 85 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 YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds HELPMATE INC ↗
- Who funds Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Western North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERNER INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Children FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County Inc ↗
- Who funds IRENE WORTHAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Big BrothersBig Sisters of WNC Inc ↗
- Who funds All Souls Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Our Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Eblen Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds Henderson County United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds KL TRAINING SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Mediation Center ↗
- Who funds Getting Back To Basics ↗
- Who funds WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT ↗
- Who funds Umoja Health Wellness and Justice Collective ↗
- Who funds READ TO SUCCEED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Colaborativa La Milpa ↗
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: Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Mission Hospital Inc · Pisgah Health Foundation · The Hedrick Family Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Impact Health
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 United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County 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.