· Public charity
United Way of Haywood County Inc
To improve the quality of life in haywood county by uniting community volunteer funding efforts.
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.
The 15 grants below total $212,140 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,406,908 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,194,768 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 $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAYWOOD ADVANCEMENT | $40,000 |
| REACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY | $22,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $20,000 |
| KARE | $18,000 |
| WNC COMMUNITIES | $15,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $13,500 |
| LIFEWORKS WITH CHRISTIAN WOMENS | $11,000 |
| HIGHTS INC | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| HAYWOOD PATHWAYS CENTER | $10,000 |
| ARC OF HAYWOOD | $10,000 |
| HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $9,000 |
| MAPLE LEAF ADULT DAY RESPITE | $8,000 |
| MPI- FOSTER GRDSR COMPANION | $5,640 |
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, $376k) 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.
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 +99% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- ROREACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $196k · revenue +178%
- MOMeals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +193%
MANNA FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- MBMOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +65%
- HCHAYWOOD COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -47%
- HCHAYWOOD COUNTY 4Hone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Food distribution to the needy
Providing a safe, nurturing environment for youth in need
To work to improve & protect surface water in haywood county, north carolina.
The Counseling Center strives to strengthen families and individuals by providing access to quality mental health services regardless of financial ability.
The hunger and health coalition relieves poverty and hunger for households experiencing economic hardship and food insecurity. we serve low-income and uninsured residents of avery, watauga and ashe counties who are forced to choose between…
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…
To improve healthcare for residents of Haywood County through addressing unmet healthcare needs
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
To help relieve hunger in our community. we recognize that the total needs of individuals must be addressed, and will seek to facilitate the meeting of other needs. however, our primary purpose is that of providing nutritious meals to the…
To provide medical care for uninsured individuals in the Yadkinville area.
Dignity through dwellings, connection through community.
Promote business development in haywood county
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Projects Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haywood Advancement Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 REACH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds KARE Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORKS ENRICHMENT TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Haywood Pathways Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds WNC Communities ↗
- Who funds Haywood Christian Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHTS Inc ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC OF HAYWOOD CO ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF HAYWOOD COUNTY ↗
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 · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · The John C Harmon Family Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Pisgah Health Foundation · Haywood Health Foundation Inc · Evergreen Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Ken & Deborah Wilson Foundation Inc · Impact Health · Gradison Foundation
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 Haywood 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.