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Wnc Bridge Foundation

WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION exists to connect our communities to a healthier future and to create lasting change through local partnerships. Our efforts are focused on expanding access and equity for vulnerable populations in our communities.we are a community-based charitable organization that works to provide funds to support and assist in…

$4.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
138
Itemized grants FY2024
58
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$3.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 117
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$129M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Wnc Bridge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving137$3.4M37%
FY202358$2.9M7%
FY202284$3.4M27%
FY2021115$5.8M43%
FY2020117$6.6M91%
FY201916$1.4M56%
FY20188$2.5M13%
FY201711$3.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$9.2MHuman Services$7.7MEducation$2.7MFood & Nutrition$2.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.4MCommunity Improvement$991kYouth Development$790kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 255 grantees
All grantees of Wnc Bridge Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
MountainCare Inc$9,904,555843%
Shiloh Community Association$415,070491%
Abccm Doctors' Medical Clinic Inc$407,10026%
Western Carolina Medical Society Foundation Inc$393,946315%
Young Men's Christian Association of Western North Carolina$335,13631%
Organic Growers School Inc$274,900342%
Children FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County Inc$271,06356%
W4h Asheville$270,788511%
Swannanoa Valley Child Care Council Inc$256,228222%
HIGHTS Inc$241,30047%
Pisgah Legal Services$238,60432%
Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc$238,06359%
Ymi Cultural Center Inc$225,38448%
Restoration House Wnc$221,063441%
The Christine Avery Learning Center$221,06356%
Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc$220,46347%
United Community Development of North Carolina$218,356584%
Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc$214,38454%
Asheville Buncombe Institue of Parity Achievement$210,000412%
Centro Unido Latino Americano$207,063415%
YWCA$206,5933n/a
The Community Kitchen Inc$204,134426%
Grace Place a Community Table$202,0634n/a
Read to Succeed Asheville$201,508413%
Beacon of Hope Services Inc$201,06347%
Family Place of Transylvania County$200,563415%
Southwestern Community College Foundation Inc$200,000148%
Black Mountain Counseling Center In$196,019517%
Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc$191,06351%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$190,0002n/a
Vecinos Inc$189,5014n/a
Gateway Wellness Foundation$183,75028%
Verner Inc$182,00043%
Community Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc$181,063413%
Western North Carolina Workers Center$180,06349%
Blue Ridge Literacy Council Inc$178,563525%
Only Hope Wnc$178,063429%
Boys and Girls Club of Henderson County/Hendersonville Inc$178,06143%
Sixth Avenue Psychiatric Rehabilitation Partners Inc$168,66354%
The Giving Spoon Inc$168,516441%
Ytl Training Program$166,063412%
Carolina Day School Inc$163,16340%
MemoryCare Inc$162,00032%
Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity Inc$161,06334%
Neighbors in Ministry Inc$161,063511%
Grahamtown Team$161,063314%
Feed-A-Child Wnc Inc$159,063432%
Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc$159,00021%
The Community Table Inc$158,53847%
Helping Hands of Haywood$158,063377%
Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc$151,06337%
Literacy Council of Highlands Inc$151,063311%
Hola Carolina$151,063311%
Southern Reconciliation Ministries Inc$151,063313%
Pigeon Community Development Center$150,563418%
Manna Food Bank Inc$150,00020%
Smart Start of Transylvania County$147,98056%
The University of North Carolina at Asheville Foundation Inc$143,80041%
La Esperanza Immigrant Outreach Ministry at the Episcopal Church of the Ho$143,5634n/a
Burke United Christian Ministries$140,08345%
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc$140,00021%
Boys and Girls Club of Brevard Transylvania County Inc$136,06332%
Interfaith Assistance Ministry Inc$130,50023%
United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc$121,90052%
Mountain Projects Inc$121,21320%
KARE Inc$121,063311%
New Hope of McDowell$119,818411%
Helpmate Inc$114,10032%
Henderson County United Way Inc$110,50073%
Haywood Street Congregation$109,0003n/a
Haywood Pathways Center Inc$107,95037%
Babies Need Bottoms Inc$102,96357%
Anchor Baptist Church$101,0634n/a
Good Samaritan Clinic$100,80022%
Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc$100,00031%
McDowell Lfac$100,000114%
Yokefellow Service Center$100,000211%
Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project Inc$100,00026%
YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc$96,40022%
Western North Carolina Regional$95,30019%
Meals on Wheels of Brevard Inc$91,063421%
Eliada Homes Inc$90,00011%
Eblen Charities Inc$90,00031%
The Housing Assistance Corporation$89,30032%
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Foundation$87,90043%
All Souls Counseling Center$83,800213%
Hendersonville Rescue Mission$80,00024%
Graham Revitalization Economic Action Team - Great$80,000190%
McDowell County Schools$80,0001n/a
Hinton Rural Life Center Inc$78,0001n/a
St Gerard House$76,60632%
Asheville Poverty Initiative$75,934215%
Holler Harm Reduction$74,810283%
Haywood County$74,0002n/a
Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity Inc$70,00020%
Special Olympics North Carolina Inc$70,00021%
Thirtieth Judicial District Dv - Sa Alliance Inc$69,00016%
Bounty & Soul$68,00021%
Literacy Together$68,000310%
Rolling Start Nc Inc$67,063325%
Norris Library Foundation Inc$66,6662n/a
Bountiful Cities Project$64,66039%
County of Buncombe$64,4001n/a
Mountain Aging Partners Inc$63,00033%
The Arc of Buncombe County Inc$62,600313%
Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc$62,50032%
Henderson County Education Foundation Inc$62,00046%
Neighbors in Need Inc$61,063345%
East End Valley Street Neighborhood Association$60,0002n/a
Mount Zion Community Development Inc$60,000231%
Buncombe County Partnership for Children Inc$59,93011%
Dig In Yancey Community Garden$57,500218%
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc$57,10021%
The Industrial Commons$55,00021%
The Center for Rural Health Innovation$53,19935%
Council on Aging of Buncombe County Inc$52,00013%
Jewish Family Services of Wnc Inc$51,500210%
Nantahala Health Foundation$50,000121%
Washburn Community Outreach Center$50,0001n/a
Asheville-Buncombe Community Christian Ministry Inc$50,0002n/a
Western Carolina Community Action Inc$50,00010%
Open Doors of Asheville Inc$49,00023%
Getting Back To Basics$46,500361%
Transylvania Christian Ministry Inc$46,50021%
Resources Education Asst Counseling and Housing of Macon County Inc$45,15023%
Casting for Hope$45,000217%
Western North Carolina AIDS Project Inc$43,00022%
The Mediation Center$43,00023%
Veterans Treatment Court of Western North Carolina Foundation Inc$41,000231%
Higher Academia Corporation$40,000195%
Land of Sky Regional Council$40,0001n/a
Big BrothersBig Sisters of WNC Inc$40,00022%
Southwestern Community College$40,0001n/a
Mountain Alliance Inc$39,50044%
Olive Hill Community Economic Development Corporation$39,400137%
Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry$37,1002n/a
Buncombe County School$36,0001n/a
Mountain Resolutions LLC$35,3751n/a
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated$35,00020%
Arteria Collective$35,000210%
Project Dignity of Western North Carolina Inc$34,33549%
Brevard Music Center Incorporated$34,00010%
Winston Salem Industries for the Blind Inc$30,00020%
Bryson City Food Pantry Inc$30,0001n/a
Blue Ridge Hope$29,000116%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$28,10010%
United Way of Haywood County Inc$27,50024%
Trauma Intervention Programs Inc$26,50023%
Irene Wortham Center Inc$26,23220%
Carolina Caring Foundation Inc$25,80012%
Asheville Poverty Initiative$25,6931n/a
Black Mountain Home for Children Youth and Families Inc$25,00010%
Partners Aligned Toward Health$25,00014%
Catherine McAuley Mercy Foundation Inc$24,84917%
Buncombe County Schools Foundation Inc$24,58032%
Umoja Health Wellness and Justice Collective$22,50032%
Operation Gateway Inc$21,98811%
Wamy Community Action Inc$20,20021%
Clothes to Kids of Haywood County$20,00027%
Key Learning Center$20,0001n/a
East Yancey Water and Sewer District$20,0001n/a
Safelight Inc$20,00020%
Campaign For Southern Equality$20,00011%
Swain County Recreation Dept$19,9502n/a
Colaborativa La Milpa$18,50021%
Macon County Care Network$17,50022%
River Front Development Corp$16,000216%
Food Connection Inc$15,00021%
Asheville Art Museum Association Inc$15,00010%
Rutherford Housing Partnership Inc$14,84221%
Graham County Health Dept$12,9001n/a
Under One Sky Village Foundation$12,00029%
Smart Start Partnership for Childre$10,70011%
WNC Lighthouse Inc$10,6251n/a
East Carolina University Medical & Health Sciences Foundation Inc$10,35010%
Sistas Caring 4 Sistas Inc$10,00014%
Big Ivy Community Development Club$10,000110%
Helios Warriors Inc$10,0001n/a
Haywood Christian Ministry Inc$10,00010%
Ivy Creek Farm$10,0001n/a
High Lonesome Therapeutic Equestrian Center$10,0001n/a
Hands and Feet of Asheville$10,000116%
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Western North Carolina Inc$10,00011%
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project$10,00010%
Mitchell Giving Gardens$10,00016%
Spring Creek Community Center$10,00014%
The Salvation Army$10,0001n/a
Amazing Grace Ministries of Hendersonville$10,0001n/a
Buladean Community Foundation$10,00014%
True Ridge$10,00012%
Emmanuel Lutheran Church$10,0001n/a
Jewish Community Center of Asheville Inc$10,00010%
SeekHealing$10,00012%
Clearmont Volunteer Fire Department Inc$10,00016%
Pivotpoint Wnc$10,00012%
Abernethy Memorial Rutherford College United Methodist Church$10,0001n/a
Madison County Community Learning Centers$10,00011%
Hood Huggers Foundation$10,00012%
Peace of Adventure$10,0001n/a
Madison County Nc Rotary Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Hands on - a Child's Gallery$10,00011%
Hurlburt-Johnson Friendship House Inc$10,00013%
Pensacola Volunteer Fire Department Inc$10,00018%
Transylvania County Public Schools$10,0001n/a
Helping Hand Developmental Center$10,00011%
Trinity United Methodist Church of Asheville North Carolina$10,0001n/a
The International Friendship Center of Highlands$10,00015%
Sisters of Mercy Urgent Care Inc$10,00010%
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church$10,0001n/a
Appalachian Wildlife Refuge$10,00011%
Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte$10,00010%
The Western Youth Network Inc$10,00010%
Burke Hospice and Palliative Care Inc$10,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Burke County Inc$10,00011%
Mitchell County Safe Place Inc$10,00011%
Centro Comunitario Hispano- Americano Inc$10,00012%
Hospice of Yancey County Inc$10,00010%
Friends of Madison County Library Inc$10,0001n/a
Unete Inc$10,00012%
One Dozen Who Care Inc$9,645112%
Swain County High School Care Team$9,6001n/a
United Christian Ministries of Jackson County$8,00012%
The Haven of Transylvania County$8,00011%
Delta House Life Development of$8,00019%
The Endowment Fund of the Public Sc of McDowell Co Nc$7,724133%
Child Medical Collaborative Inc$7,50011%
Institute for Preventive Healthcare and Advocacy$7,50013%
Feeding Avery Families Inc$7,50010%
Pardee Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$7,50010%
Hunger Coalition of Transylvania Co$7,5001n/a
Henderson County Foster Parents Association$7,5001n/a
Calvary Episcopal Church Food Panty Inc$7,50011%
My Sister's Place of Madison Inc$7,50012%
Lions Club of Mills River$7,4951n/a
Deaf and Blind Pathways Foundation Inc$7,20011%
The Learning Center Ogden School Inc$6,7211n/a
Overland Unlimited Bridge of Hope-Warrior School$6,6001n/a
Brasstown Community Civic Center Inc$6,5001n/a
Good Neighbor Clinic-Franklin Nc Seventh Day Adventist Church$6,2301n/a
PEAK Academy Charter School$6,20012%
Acrn - Allied Comprehensive Recovery Network$6,0001n/a
Just Economics$6,00012%
Asheville DC Asheville Dream Center$6,0001n/a
Community Action Opportunities$6,00010%
Clay County Hearts for Kids$6,000127%
Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation Inc$6,00010%
Serve to Lead$6,00012%
Hope Center of Hendersonville$5,44211%
The Arc of Haywood County Inc$5,40010%
Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc$5,00012%
Our Voice Inc$5,00010%
St John's Episcopal Church$5,0001n/a
Skyland United Methodist Church$5,0001n/a
Carenet Counseling of Marion$5,0001n/a
Eliada Foundation Inc$5,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Wnc Bridge Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 21 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMountainCare Inc: $9,904,555 over 8y, 43% of budgetShiloh Community Association: $415,070 over 4y, 91% of budgetAbccm Doctors' Medical Clinic Inc: $407,100 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetWestern Carolina Medical Society Foundation Inc: $393,946 over 3y, 15% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Western North Carolina: $335,136 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOrganic Growers School Inc: $274,900 over 3y, 42% of budgetChildren FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County Inc: $271,063 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetW4h Asheville: $270,788 over 5y, 11% of budgetSwannanoa Valley Child Care Council Inc: $256,228 over 2y, 22% of budgetHIGHTS Inc: $241,300 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetPisgah Legal Services: $238,604 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetToe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc: $238,063 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetYmi Cultural Center Inc: $225,384 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetRestoration House Wnc: $221,063 over 4y, 41% of budgetThe Christine Avery Learning Center: $221,063 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetMountain Child Advocacy Center Inc: $220,463 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetUnited Community Development of North Carolina: $218,356 over 5y, 84% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc: $214,384 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetAsheville Buncombe Institue of Parity Achievement: $210,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCentro Unido Latino Americano: $207,063 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe Community Kitchen Inc: $204,134 over 4y, 26% of budgetRead to Succeed Asheville: $201,508 over 4y, 13% of budgetBeacon of Hope Services Inc: $201,063 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetFamily Place of Transylvania County: $200,563 over 4y, 15% of budgetSouthwestern Community College Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetBlack Mountain Counseling Center In: $196,019 over 5y, 17% of budgetCommunities in Schools of North Carolina Inc: $191,063 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGateway Wellness Foundation: $183,750 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetVerner Inc: $182,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCommunity Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc: $181,063 over 4y, 13% of budgetWestern North Carolina Workers Center: $180,063 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetBlue Ridge Literacy Council Inc: $178,563 over 5y, 25% of budgetOnly Hope Wnc: $178,063 over 4y, 29% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Henderson County/Hendersonville Inc: $178,061 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetSixth Avenue Psychiatric Rehabilitation Partners Inc: $168,663 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetThe Giving Spoon Inc: $168,516 over 4y, 41% of budgetYtl Training Program: $166,063 over 4y, 12% of budgetCarolina Day School Inc: $163,163 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMemoryCare Inc: $162,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetRutherford County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $161,063 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNeighbors in Ministry Inc: $161,063 over 5y, 11% of budgetGrahamtown Team: $161,063 over 3y, 14% of budgetFeed-A-Child Wnc Inc: $159,063 over 4y, 32% of budgetHomeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc: $159,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Community Table Inc: $158,538 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetHelping Hands of Haywood: $158,063 over 3y, 77% of budgetAdults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc: $151,063 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetLiteracy Council of Highlands Inc: $151,063 over 3y, 11% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC281.2× affinity202 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Manna Food Bank Inc · Pisgah Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Impact Health · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · Henderson County United Way Inc · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Gateway Wellness Foundation

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.

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About Wnc Bridge Foundation

How much does Wnc Bridge Foundation give?
Wnc Bridge Foundation reported 138 itemized grants totaling $3,915,520, out of $4,299,378 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 117 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wnc Bridge Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (31%), Human Services (26%), Education (9%).
Who are Wnc Bridge Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: MountainCare Inc ($9.9M), Shiloh Community Association ($415k), Abccm Doctors' Medical Clinic Inc ($407k).
Does Wnc Bridge Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wnc Bridge Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, Manna Food Bank Inc.
Where is Wnc Bridge Foundation based?
Wnc Bridge Foundation is based in NC.

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 256 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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