North Carolina · Nonprofit
ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,027,160 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,697,050). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity Inc does
Mission
Seeking to put god's love into action, asheville area habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Building and revitalizing homes for ownership: asheville area habitat for humanity (aahh) builds and finances 1, 2, 3, and 4-bedroom homes and townhomes, including aging in place units built specifically for age 55+. The construction and sale of 16 new homes in the glenn bridge neighborhood (arden) and the revitalization and sale of 3 homes was completed in the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025. Construction began at new heights, phase 2 (west asheville), the future site of 60 homes. In addition to core construction volunteers and local sponsoring groups, 34 visiting groups (of 6-20 volunteers) volunteered to build homes with asheville habitat post hurricane helene. The first habitat affiliate in nc and the largest builder of green built-certified homes in the state, asheville habitat provides qualified low-income residents the opportunity to buy a home and build generational wealth.
$10,773,146 spentof which $136,857 as grants$4,792,773 earned by the program100% of program spendingRepairing existing homes (traditional & disaster): preserving homeownership through an affordable home repair program helps low-income and older adult residents live in their homes for longer, and with safety and dignity. Home repair preserves the character, affordability, and diversity in our local neighborhoods. In fiscal year ending june 30, 2025, 23 traditional repairs were completed, as the focus shifted after hurricane helene devastated asheville and surrounding communities. With nearly 100,000 homes damaged, asheville habitat immediately expanded services to include a new disaster home repair program, in partnership with other agencies through archr (asheville regional coalition for home repair). Asheville habitat serves as the fiduciary agent. The no-cost program helps low-income homeowners whose houses were damaged by the storm, particularly those uninsured, underinsured, and/or ineligible for fema assistance. In fy25, 72 disaster repairs were completed.
A comprehensive homebuyer education curriculum comprised of money management, home maintenance, and more sets buyers up for success. Through the course work, future neighbors get to know each other and build community before they even move into their homes. Habitat homebuyers earn 40-80% area median income (ami) and do not qualify for traditional lending programs. Habitat extends affordable mortgages to qualified buyers, with payments not to exceed 30% of monthly income. In fy ending june 30, 2025, 19 families purchased new or revitalized homes from asheville habitat. 6 are single-parent households, 12 are female head of households, 2 are aging in place (55+) buyers, and 1 is a veteran. 30 children were served. Research shows that decent and stable housing is linked to improved educational outcomes, better health, greater financial stability, and stronger communities.
Asheville area habitat for humanity operates two restores - one in asheville and one in weaverville. The stores sell mostly donated home goods and building supplies at affordable prices to the general public, diverting 2,400+ tons of material from the landfill each year. Proceeds from restore sales help fund asheville habitat's building and repair programs. Volunteers contributed 22,626 hours in fy ending june 30, 2025, supporting restore staff in all areas of the operation. The asheville restore was one of the first restores to open (in 1990), and today it remains a top performing store out of more than 850 restores nationwide. The weaverville location opened in august 2019. Both stores contribute to the register round up program, supporting a different non-profit partner each month and raising more than $100,000 since its inception in 2019. The asheville store was shuttered for months after hurricane helene caused significant damage. $246,865 in merchandise was lost, as was 4 months of revenue ($808,000). Restore staff were deployed to manna, a local food bank, while the store was closed, keeping all employed and helping another non-profit at their time of greatest need. The…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,773,146.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $26M to $34M (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 22% · 2023 23% · 2024 13% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
L Andrew Barnett
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $253k → $782k.
17 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 63% · 2019 30% · 2020 41% · 2021 34% · 2022 89% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
52% of ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.6M that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC?
- ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,027,160 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,697,050). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $14,027,160 in grants to ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,697,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 71 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing