· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $11,784 |
| Community Care Clinic of Franklin | $3,500 |
| Magnolia Mission | $3,500 |
| Junaluska Foundation | $3,500 |
| Silas-S Duck Foundation | $3,500 |
| Star Ranch Horse Rescue | $3,000 |
| Neighbors Feeding Neighbors Food Mi | $3,000 |
| Mithcell Giving Gardens | $2,500 |
| 80s Flashback Weekend Shriners Ben | $2,500 |
| Esther Neonatal Kitten Alliance | $2,000 |
| A Caring Place | $2,000 |
| Restoration House | $2,000 |
| Final Run Rescue | $2,000 |
| KARE Inc | $1,500 |
| Haywood Pathways Center | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- VOVeterans of Foreign Wars Post 5202one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 LABOR OF LOVE TRANSPORT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Haywood Pathways Center Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization WNC Jeepers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from WNC Jeepers. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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