· 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 FIFTEEN PARTNER AGENCIES.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| WILKES CIRCLE OF CARE | $29,000 |
| WILKES ADULT DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY PROGRAM | $23,000 |
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TEAM | $22,750 |
| WILKES SENIOR RESOURCES | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | $18,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION | $14,500 |
| RUBY P BLACKBURN ADULT DAY CARE | $13,000 |
| CARENET COUNSELING OF WILKES | $12,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS FOR WILKES LITERACY | $10,000 |
| CATHERINE H BARBER MEMORIAL HOMELESS SHELTER | $7,000 |
| WILKES DEVELOPMENTAL DAY SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| MOUNTAIN VALLEY HOSPICE | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,500 |
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, $539k) 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 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.
21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BRBLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $244k · revenue +44%
- CACHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TEAM8× · 2017–2025 · $179k · revenue +32% · 45% of their budget
- WAWILKES ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2025 · $177k · 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%
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.
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…
To assist educational functions
To serve as a catalyst for improving results for Georgia's children, families and communities.
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 the unserved and underserved children and adults of wilkes (and the surrounding region on a space available basis) in need of dental care.
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.
Provide cultural and artistic programs for the public of Wilkes County, NC and the surrounding area
Promote humane care and treatment for all animals
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 27 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 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 WILKES CIRCLE OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina ↗
- Who funds WILKES LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds CARENET COUNSELING OF WILKES INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT ENRICHMENT SERVICES OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Surry County Inc ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Wilkes County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Wilkes County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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