· Community foundation
Walnut Cove Members Association Inc
To build a sense of community within walnut cove and to support our members' charitable efforts in western north carolina.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $688k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $26,500 |
| HAYWOOD STREET CONGREGATION | $26,500 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND | $26,500 |
| HELPMATE INC | $26,000 |
| CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOOD PANTRY | $26,000 |
| MANNA FOODBANK INC | $25,750 |
| EBLEN CHARITIES | $25,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE WESTERN REGION | $25,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| MEMORY CARE | $25,000 |
| ADVENT HEALTH | $25,000 |
| FOOD CONNECTION | $25,000 |
| BOUNTY AND SOUL | $25,000 |
| CHURCH OF ADVOCATE (RED DOOR MINISTRY) | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 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; $35k 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
MANNA FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +230%- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +274%
- HBHOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- USUNBROKEN SPIRITgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +26%
- EHELIADA HOMES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue +29%
- LDLeo Diabetico Companyone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -76% · 90% of their budget
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.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
WNC Communities empowers the people of Western North Carolina to cultivate the vitality and prosperity of mountain communities through collaboration and agricultural opportunities. This mission is accomplished through a program of work…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Ashe County Recovery and Restoration was established in October 2024 in response to the devastation in Ashe County, nc that occured as a result of Hurricane Helene.
Asheville GreenWorks inspires, equips and mobilizes communities to create an equitable climate-resilient future.
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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…
The main areas of emphasis for Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission are to attract sports events, generate positive economic development, and provide wellness programs that enhance the quality of life for the residents of Buncombe…
To promote and educate to ensure a socially responsible and profitable NC Pork Industry.
To Provide affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leo Diabetico Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 64 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 Eblen Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project ↗
- Who funds HELPING AT RISK KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville Poverty Initiative ↗
- Who funds CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOOD PANTY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Buncombe County Inc ↗
- Who funds RiverLink Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds The North Carolina Arboretum Society ↗
- Who funds FLETCHER HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Henderson County Inc ↗
- Who funds Bounty & Soul ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The University of North Carolina at Asheville Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VAGABOND SCHOOL OF THE DRAMA INC ↗
- Who funds HELPMATE INC ↗
- Who funds Asheville Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MemoryCare Inc ↗
- Who funds Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Big BrothersBig Sisters of WNC Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Arts For Life ↗
- Who funds NO BARRIERS USA ↗
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 · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Pisgah Health Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 Walnut Cove Members Association 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.