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United Way of Transylvania County

To build a stronger transylvania county by mobilizing our community to empower people to improve their lives.

$235k
Granted FY2017
12
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $217k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY PLACE$47,000
NEIGHBORS IN MINISTRY$34,000
THE MEDIATION CENTER$32,000
PISGAH LEGAL SERVICE$23,000
ONTRACK$19,000
CHILDRENS CENTER$15,000
ADULT DAY COMMUNITY CARE PARTNERS$14,000
CENTRO COMUNITARIO HISPANO AMERICAN$12,000
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE$11,250
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$10,000
TRANSYLVANIA HOME CARE AND HOSPICE$9,000
TRANS COUNTY YOUTH ASSOC$8,320
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FAMILY PLACE: $47k → 13%NEIGHBORS IN MINISTRY: $34k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Mediation Center: $32,000 · OtherThe Mediation CenterONTRACK: $19,000 · OtherONTRACKCHILDRENS CENTER: $15,000 · OtherCHILDRENS CENTERADULT DAY COMMUNITY CARE PARTNERS: $14,000 · OtherADULT DAY COMMUNITY CARE PARTNERSBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $11,250 · OtherBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBTRANSYLVANIA HOME CARE AND HOSPICE: $9,000 · OtherTRANSYLVANIA HOME CARE AND HOSPICETRANS COUNTY YOUTH ASSOC: $8,320 · OtherTRANS COUNTY YOUTH ASSOCFamily Place of Transylvania County: $47,000 · Human ServicesFamily Place of Transylvania CountyNeighbors in Ministry Inc: $34,000 · Human ServicesNeighbors in Ministry IncPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $23,000 · Crime & LegalPISGAH LEGA…CENTRO COMUNITARIO HISPANO- AMERICANO INC: $12,000 · Community Improvement
Other$118,570Human Services$81,000Crime & Legal$23,000Community Improvement$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily Place of Transylvania County: $47,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetNeighbors in Ministry Inc: $34,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe Mediation Center: $32,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $23,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRO COMUNITARIO HISPANO- AMERICANO INC: $12,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $11,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Family Place of Transylvania County ↗
  • Who funds Neighbors in Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Mediation Center ↗
  • Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO COMUNITARIO HISPANO- AMERICANO INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗

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.

Lake Toxaway CharitiesDogwood Health TrustThe Community Foundat…Wnc Bridge FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Lake Toxaway CharitiesNC15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lake Toxaway Charities · Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Transylvania County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Transylvania County. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports $273k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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