North Carolina · Nonprofit
ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,074,981 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($1,198,700). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Asheville City Schools Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the asheville city schools foundation (acsf) is to promote success for all asheville city schools students by engaging & mobilizing the entire community to support enriching and innovative educational activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The asheville city schools foundation implements bold strategies, funds big ideas, and mobilizes the community to increase excellence with equity for students in the city schools. We do this by matching struggling students with volunteers, providing high-quality after school programming to young teens through in real life (irl) at asheville middle, resourcing teachers with funds and professional development so that they are empowered to implement new, and more effective instructional practices, funding high- quality arts-instruction through artist residencies, and awarding college scholarships to graduating seniors to overcome barriers to poverty and attend higher education. Acsf also advocates for high quality public education by building grassroots support for well-resourced schools.
$1,226,520 spentof which $463,974 as grants$61,608 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,226,520.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $3.2M (+36%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 9% · 2019 7% · 2020 4% · 2021 31% · 2022 19% · 2023 4% · 2024 6% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $184k → $904k.
12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
37% 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 CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 64% · 2019 56% · 2020 37% · 2021 26% · 2022 44% · 2023 38% — 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
38% of ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
64% of ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $800k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Organizations like ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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 CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
- ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,074,981 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($1,198,700). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,074,981 in grants to ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,198,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing