How much did Wnc Bridge Foundation grant in FY2024?

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.

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

WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION exists to connect our communities to a healthier future and to create lasting change through local partnerships.

$4.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

138

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What you fund

0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$13MHuman Services$3.2MEducation$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.1MHousing & Shelter$924kYouth Development$768kArts & Culture$423kEnvironment$332kOther$6.5M

02FY2024 · 138 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 138 grants below total $3,915,520 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,299,378 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $383,858 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

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
Recipient	Amount
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA	$500,000
SHILOH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION	$286,470
YMI CULTURAL CENTER	$75,000
YTL TRAINING PROGRAMS	$61,063
RESTORATION HOUSE WNC	$61,063
LITERACY CONNECTION	$61,063
W4H ASHEVILLE DBA WORKING WHEELS	$61,063
FAMILY PLACE OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY	$61,063
UNITED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA INC	$61,063
THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC	$61,063
RUTHERFORD COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$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 (FY17–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. 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 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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$27M · 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 +54% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.

137 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2024, 51 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

$27M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+52%

Still filing today

88%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% 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 +73% · 91% of their budget
AD
ABCCM DOCTORS' MEDICAL CLINIC INC
2× · 2020–2021 · $407k · revenue +4%
YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
3× · 2017–2021 · $335k · revenue +43%

Funded once

SC
Southwestern Community College Foundation Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +164% · 48% of their budget
ML
MCDOWELL LFACgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +455%
WN
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONALgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $95k · revenue +112%

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 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

The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc

The hunger and health coalition relieves poverty and hunger for households experiencing economic hardship and food insecurity. we serve low-income and uninsured residents of avery, watauga and ashe counties who are forced to choose between…

Food & Nutrition

North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

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

Health

Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc

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

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition

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

First Choice Community Health Ctrs

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

Health

Ashe County Recovery and Restoration

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.

Public Safety & Disaster

Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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Volunteer Avery County & Community Services Inc

Volunteer Avery County finds resources to aid families and individuals that do not qualify for public assistance and fall through the cracks.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Aging Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hunger Coalition of Transylvania Co. 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%6/256

the rest of the field

11%

391/3,601

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.

04the grantee network

212 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. 212 of the 256 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

206/212

Grantees still filing

157/212

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$12,868,013Other$7,778,270Human Services$3,062,953Education$1,873,850Food & Nutrition$1,700,195Philanthropy$1,079,400Housing & Shelter$913,813

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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

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 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

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

99report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines