· Private foundation
WNC Jeepers
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $11,784 |
| Junaluska Foundation | $3,500 |
| Silas-S Duck Foundation | $3,500 |
| Community Care Clinic of Franklin | $3,500 |
| Magnolia Mission | $3,500 |
| Star Ranch Horse Rescue | $3,000 |
| Neighbors Feeding Neighbors Food Mi | $3,000 |
| 80s Flashback Weekend Shriners Ben | $2,500 |
| Mithcell Giving Gardens | $2,500 |
| Final Run Rescue | $2,000 |
| Esther Neonatal Kitten Alliance | $2,000 |
| A Caring Place | $2,000 |
| Restoration House | $2,000 |
| KARE Inc | $1,500 |
| Haywood Pathways Center | $500 |
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 (FY24–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +73% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 12 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CCCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN INC2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +104%
- MMMAGNOLIA MISSION CO2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +67%
- KIKARE Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $7k
- FUFur-Feline Urgent Rescueone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SISOAR Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Endangered animal rescue and adoption
we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…
To provide housing, enrichment, and training for shelter dogs in need.
To provide a no kill shelter in order to rescue and find homes for displaced animals
To rescue, rehabilitate and rehome homeless pets
Provide care for abandoned animals, including shelter, food and medical care in order to adopt them out to the public.
Saving the lives of homeless and unwanted pets in harrison county kentucky and surrounding areas.
To provide housing, medical care, and food to stray animals in the Greenville and surrounding areas or Mercer County with the goal of placing animals for adoptions
Hannahs Home is a Christ-centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis.
Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and release injured, orphaned and ill local wildlife. we focus on wildlife conservation education so that people and animals can live in productive harmony.
As guardians of displaced felines, our mission is to provide a safe haven for cats in WNC. By reducing the homeless population, shelter overcrowding, and euthanasia rates by filling a gap in assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haywood Pathways Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Esther Neonatal Kitten Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 38 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 SILAS-S DUCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA MISSION CO ↗
- Who funds SOAR Inc ↗
- Who funds KARE Inc ↗
- Who funds The Haven of Transylvania County ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS FEEDING NEIGHBORS FOOD MI ↗
- Who funds Esther Neonatal Kitten Alliance ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION HOUSE WNC ↗
- Who funds FINAL RUN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE HISTORICAL ASSOICIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Haywood Pathways Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LABOR OF LOVE TRANSPORT RESCUE ↗
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 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jeepers 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.
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