How much did WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION reported 138 grants totaling $4,299,378 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION based?

WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION is based in NC.

WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION

To provide funds to assist in meeting the health challenges of people in the communities of wnc and to empower nonprofits to impact individual and community wellness in those communities.

$4.3M

Granted FY2024

138

Grants

Communities

$500k

Largest

01What you fund

0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$9.9MHuman Services$3.1MEducation$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.1MHousing & Shelter$924kYouth Development$768kArts & Culture$423kEnvironment$332kOther$6.5M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

liason scholarshipsvictimsstaffhendersonagriculture

2020

nowveteransclientsrecoveryolive hillcounseling financialsmall business

2021

nowcancerprimaryclinicgreatnaturalchildren's

2022

now activeaim foodaim housingnow closedfood insecurityheatingespecially reach

2023

activeaimincrease accessmentally illimmigrantministriesliving

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 138 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $160k
$10k–50k81 grants · $1.2M
$50k–250k33 grants · $1.8M
$250k+2 grants · $786k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$129M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA$500,000
SHILOH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$286,470
YMI CULTURAL CENTER$75,000
UNITED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA INC$61,063
THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC$61,063
YTL TRAINING PROGRAMS$61,063
LITERACY CONNECTION$61,063
RESTORATION HOUSE WNC$61,063
FAMILY PLACE OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY$61,063
RUTHERFORD COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$61,063
W4H ASHEVILLE DBA WORKING WHEELS$61,063
ONLY HOPE WNC INC$61,063
CENTRO UNIDO LATINO AMERICANO$61,063
HELPING HANDS OF HAYWOOD$58,063
MOUNTAIN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$51,863

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$24M · 137 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.

137 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

137

Total granted

$24M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%

+65%

Still filing today

88%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $534k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

SC
SHILOH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
4× · 2020–2024 · $415k · revenue +134% · 91% of their budget
AM
ABCCM MEDICAL MINISTRY
2× · 2020–2021 · $407k · revenue +19%
WC
WESTERN CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $394k · revenue +25%

Funded once

SC
SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +120% · 48% of their budget
ML
MCDOWELL LOCAL FOOD ADVISORY COUNCILgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +2021%
WR
WESTERN REGION EDUCATION SERVICE ALLIANCE
one grant, 2020 · $95k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Communities

WNC Communities empowers the people of Western North Carolina to cultivate the vitality and prosperity of mountain communities through collaboration and agricultural opportunities.

Food & Nutrition

Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health

Counseling Center of Highlands

The Counseling Center strives to strengthen families and individuals by providing access to quality mental health services regardless of financial ability.

Health

Womens Resource Center of

To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…

Human Services

NourishNC Inc

Provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition

North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health

The Children's Center of Western North Carolina

At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.

Human Services

Habitat for Humanity of Craven County Nc

Seeking to put Gods love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

Housing & Shelter

Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Provide quality healthcare to the people of edgecombe, nash and wilson counties.

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Asheville-Buncombe Community Land Trust

To Provide affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.

Housing & Shelter

First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health

Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Opportunities and the most unlike its peers is Brevard Music Center Incorporated. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%5/256

the rest of the field

353/3,834

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.

05the grantee network

210 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

124

Early backer (in before they grew)

204/210

Grantees still filing

168/210

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$9,854,960Other$7,997,727Human Services$3,149,953Education$1,854,400Food & Nutrition$1,735,195Philanthropy$1,064,900Housing & Shelter$923,813

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.

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.

The Community FoundationNC239.1× affinity148 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Pisgah Health Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson · Impact Health · United Way of Asheville And · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Gateway Wellness Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Nantahala Health 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 organisation WNC BRIDGE 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HIGHER ACADEMIA CORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 464137977 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HIGHER ACADEMIA CORPORATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Wnc Bridge Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wnc Bridge Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

210 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wnc Bridge Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

210 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wnc Bridge Foundation?

More from the funding graph