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Western North Carolina Regional

WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE CHILDREN OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$408kRecreation & Sports$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $60,136, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,069,786 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,009,650 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $39k
$7,508
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$38,907
GRAHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS$7,508
CHEROKEE COUNTY SCHOOLS$7,337
MACON COUNTY SCHOOLS$6,384
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $55k → 8%Haywood County Schools: $7k → 12%Henderson County Schools: $5k → 12%Various under 5000: $49k → 12%Macon County Schools: $22k → 12%Cherokee Central Schools: $24k → 14%Clay County Schools: $10k → 14%Graham County Schools: $15k → 15%Yancey County Schools: $8k → 15%Madison County Schools: $30k → 15%Cherokee County Schools: $24k → 15%Mitchell County Schools: $25k → 16%McDowell County Schools: $8k → 16%Jackson County Schools: $18k → 18%Assorted small grants: $39k → 12%Macon County Schools: $16k → 12%Cherokee Central Schools: $9k → 14%Graham County Schools: $10k → 15%Cherokee County Schools: $8k → 15%Jackson County Schools: $12k → 18%Various under 5000: $38k → 12%MACON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $10k → 12%Swain County Schools: $8k → 14%GRAHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS: $8k → 15%CHEROKEE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $7k → 15%JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $7k → 18%MACON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $6k → 12%GRAHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS: $7k → 15%Bumcommbe County Schools: $7k → 15%CHEROKEE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $6k → 15%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$294k · 6 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$294k
$208k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VU
    Various under 5000
    2× · 2021–2022 · $87k
  • MC
    Macon County Schools
    4× · 2021–2025 · $55k
  • CC
    Cherokee County Schools
    4× · 2021–2025 · $45k

Funded once

  • NS
    NC STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $55k
  • VU
    VARIOUS UNDER 5K
    one grant, 2023 · $47k
  • MC
    MADISON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2021 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various under 5000: $86,665 · OtherVarious under 5000NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $55,216 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYMacon County Schools: $54,652 · OtherMacon County SchoolsVARIOUS UNDER 5K: $46,638 · OtherVARIOUS UNDER 5KCherokee County Schools: $45,128 · OtherCherokee County SchoolsIndividual grant recipient: $38,907 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGraham County Schools: $38,758 · OtherGraham County SchoolsJackson County Schools: $36,873 · OtherJackson County SchoolsCHEROKEE BOYS CLUB INC: $32,380 · OtherCHEROKEE BOYS CLUB INCMADISON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $29,500 · OtherMADISON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSMITCHELL COUNTY SCHOOLS: $24,500 · Other+7 more: $52,493 · Other+7 more
Other$541,710

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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.

North Carolina High S…Manna Food Bank IncThe Community Foundat…Nchsaa Foundation IncDogwood Health TrustRegion a Partnership …Foundation for the Ca…North Carolina Commun…NRA Foundation IncShare Our StrengthDuke Energy FoundationFor Inspiration and R…
North Carolina High School Athletic Association IncNC32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc · Manna Food Bank Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Nchsaa Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Region a Partnership for Children · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · NRA Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · Duke Energy Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)

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.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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