How much does Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc give?

Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc reported 25 grants totaling $306,632 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Housing & Shelter (15%).

Who are Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Community Care Clinic Inc ($94k), The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc ($88k), Ashe Food Pantry Inc ($86k).

Does Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, The High Country Charitable Foundation, High Country United Way.

Where is Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc based?

Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc is based in NC.

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North Carolina · Public charity

Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc

Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge is a collective giving organization formed and sustained by a group of women philanthropists who want to make a positive impact on the lives of women and girls in the High Country.

$307k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 25
Grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 5%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $15,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 20; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $452k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	25	$328k	16%
FY2024	20	$256k	5%
FY2023	18	$219k	22%
FY2022	20	$240k	30%
FY2021	15	$171k	40%
FY2020	12	$105k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$322kFood & Nutrition$305kHousing & Shelter$200kHealth$161kEducation$96kCrime & Legal$86kYouth Development$82kRecreation & Sports$54kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Care Clinic Inc	$94,250	6	5%
The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc	$88,200	6	1%
Ashe Food Pantry Inc	$86,250	6	3%
Pisgah Legal Services	$85,500	6	0%
Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina	$82,500	6	0%
Opposing Abuse With Service Information & Shelter	$82,000	6	1%
High Country Caregiver Foundation	$73,000	6	5%
Wamy Community Action Inc	$70,500	6	1%
Western Youth Network	$60,000	4	n/a
The Children's Council of Watauga County Inc	$50,250	4	1%

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All grantees of Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Care Clinic Inc	$94,250	6	5%
The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc	$88,200	6	1%
Ashe Food Pantry Inc	$86,250	6	3%
Pisgah Legal Services	$85,500	6	0%
Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina	$82,500	6	0%
Opposing Abuse With Service Information & Shelter	$82,000	6	1%
High Country Caregiver Foundation	$73,000	6	5%
Wamy Community Action Inc	$70,500	6	1%
Western Youth Network	$60,000	4	n/a
The Children's Council of Watauga County Inc	$50,250	4	1%
Blowing Rock Cares	$48,150	4	18%
Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture	$47,500	5	1%
Quiet Givers Inc	$43,000	3	13%
Care Network Inc	$40,000	3	35%
Mountain Alliance Inc	$35,750	5	2%
Lees-McRae College Inc	$31,000	3	0%
Back 2 School Festival Inc	$30,500	3	9%
Ashe County Habitat for Humanity Inc	$30,000	2	5%
Reaching Avery Ministry	$30,000	4	1%
The Western Youth Network Inc	$26,250	2	1%
Partnership of Ashe	$22,000	3	1%
Young Eisner Scholars	$17,500	2	1%
Habitat for Humanity Intl Watauga County	$17,500	2	1%
Crossnore Communities for Children	$15,000	2	0%
Golf Fore Fun Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Ashe Outreach Ministries Inc	$15,000	1	5%
Safe Harbor of NC Inc	$15,000	1	1%
The Children's Playhouse Inc	$14,929	1	5%
Casting Bread Ministries	$13,800	2	2%
Buffalo Cove Outdoor Education Center Inc	$13,000	2	5%
Casting for Hope	$12,500	1	5%
Shoes for Kids	$6,750	1	9%
Full Moon Farm Collective	$6,000	1	10%

Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 32.

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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.

North Carolina Community FoundationNC33.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · The High Country Charitable Foundation · High Country United Way · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc · Kathleen Kennedy Foundation · Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation · The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · Dogwood Health Trust

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 Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc

How much does Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc give?: Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc reported 25 grants totaling $306,632 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
Who are Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Community Care Clinic Inc ($94k), The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc ($88k), Ashe Food Pantry Inc ($86k).
Does Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, The High Country Charitable Foundation, High Country United Way.
Where is Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc based?: Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc is based in NC.