· Public charity
United Way of Haywood County Inc
To improve the quality of life in haywood county by uniting community volunteer funding efforts.
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.
How this is measured
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 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| HIGHTS INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| ARC OF HAYWOOD | $10,000 |
| HAYWOOD PATHWAYS CENTER | $10,000 |
| HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $9,000 |
| MAPLE LEAF ADULT DAY RESPITE | $8,000 |
| MPI- FOSTER GRDSR COMPANION | $5,640 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +99% since the first grant, against +65% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
Food distribution to the needy
Providing a safe, nurturing environment for youth in need
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…
Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…
To work to improve & protect surface water in haywood county, north carolina.
Providing low-cost spay/neuter services and animal wellness programs
To improve healthcare for residents of Haywood County through addressing unmet healthcare needs
We provide hope restoration with dignity to those in need through innovative programs and services.
Habitat for Humanity of Berkeley County (HFHBC) is a community-level Habitat for Humanity organization that acts in partnership with and on behalf of Habitat for Humanity International. HFHBC seeks to put Gods love into action by brings…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Haywood County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Haywood County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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