· Public charity
United Way of Wilkes County Inc
United way of wilkes county is dedicated to improving the lives of our citizens by underwriting identified programs that enhance their well-being through our 21 partner agencies.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $193,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $208,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $171k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TEAM | $30,200 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $24,400 |
| WILKES ADULT DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| WILKES SENIOR RESOURCES | $18,000 |
| WILKES CIRCLE OF CARE | $15,200 |
| CARENET COUNSELING OF WILKES | $11,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS FOR WILKES LITERACY | $11,200 |
| MOUNTAIN VALLEY HOSPICE | $8,000 |
| RUBY P BLACKBURN ADULT DAY CARE | $8,000 |
| C H BARBER MEM HOMELESS SHELTER | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BRBLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +44%
- CACHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TEAM7× · 2017–2024 · $156k · revenue +32% · 45% of their budget
- WAWILKES ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES PROGRAM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SASHELTERED AID TO FAMILIES INCone grant, 2017 · $29k
- WMWILKES MINISTRY OF HOPEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CHCATHERINE H BARBER MEMORIAL SHELTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +481%
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.
To provide services, education, and information that promote quality of life and active aging for senior citizens.
Wilkes youth life development, inc is a youth-serving organization whose mission is to develop healthy and resilient youth in wilkes county so that they have the skills and support to become mentally and physically fit adults.
Economic development of wilkes county
The wilkes art gallery provides art exhibits from a variety of artistic media. they also organize art education classes and programs for students and adults of wilkes county, nc and surrounding areas.
To provide jobs and training to individuals who, due to physical or mental handicaps, have been unable to obtain a regular position in the workforce of the community. basic skills such as mathematics and personal grooming are taught by the…
United way of wilkes county is dedicated to improving the lives of our citizens by underwriting identified programs that enhance their well-being through our 21 partner agencies. the united way of wilkes county annually impacts over 32,000…
To assist educational functions
To help bring hope, healing, and justice to children in our community affected by sexual abuse or severe physical abuse. Safe Spot provides direct services to help child victims & nonoffending caregivers at no cost and to facilitate a…
To serve as a catalyst for improving results for Georgia's children, families and communities.
Provide cultural and artistic programs for the public of Wilkes County, NC and the surrounding area
To provide for interfaith ministries of counseling, education, consultation and enrichment with the hope of people obtaining wholeness of life regardless of their ability to pay.
To serve the unserved and underserved children and adults of wilkes (and the surrounding region on a space available basis) in need of dental care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adult Enrichment Services of Wilkes and the most unlike its peers is Child Abuse Prevention Team. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds WILKES ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN KITCHEN OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds WILKES DEVELOPMENTAL DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina ↗
- Who funds WILKES LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES CIRCLE OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Surry County Inc ↗
- Who funds CARENET COUNSELING OF WILKES INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT ENRICHMENT SERVICES OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds WILKES PRISON MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERED AID TO FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE H BARBER MEMORIAL SHELTER INC ↗
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 Health Foundation Inc · The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation · Wilkes Medical Center Foundation · The Stone Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Carson Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Wilkes 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.