· Private foundation
Victoria Garrett Legacy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $700,000 |
| ABCCM | $100,000 |
| EAGLE RANCH INC | $50,000 |
| SKYLAND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $41,500 |
| PARSON OF THE HILLS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CAMPER'S CARE | $28,000 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTIRES | $20,000 |
| CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF | $18,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $15,000 |
| ASHEVILLE DREAM CENTER | $15,000 |
| SAFELIGHT INC | $15,000 |
| NORTHEAST PRESBYTRIAN CHURCH | $12,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF ASHEVILLE | $10,000 |
| EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +19% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- BMBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +230%
EAGLE RANCH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $240k · revenue +1%- POPARSON OF THE HILLS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $221k · revenue +17% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- SHSerenity Hill Incone grant, 2020 · $40k
- FRFAMILY RESOURCES INCone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -4%
- CACHARITABLE ALLIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +109%
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.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
Family connects international is committed to strengthening bonds for families of newborns and linking them directly to supportive community care resources.
To assist in the rescue and care of abandoned and orphaned children in the developing world and to advocate for them by creating awareness of their plight within Christian churches.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.
We exist to glorify God through the church and see orphans raised to life in Christ, in a home, in a family, and in a community where they are known and loved.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safelight Inc and the most unlike its peers is Serenity Hill Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 56 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 BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds PARSON OF THE HILLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE A21 CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SAFELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Serenity Hill Inc ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Zoe Empowers ↗
- Who funds CAMPERS CARE LLC ↗
- Who funds HELPMATE INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA PREGNANCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA'S HUNGRY CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP A CHILD ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN 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 Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Fletcher Hospital Inc · Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc · Pisgah Health Foundation · The Hedrick Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Manna Food Bank Inc
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 Victoria Garrett Legacy Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Resources Inc — 8% of income from government
- Metropolitan Charities Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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.