North Carolina · Nonprofit
ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC
ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 5,862 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,862 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Asheville Area Arts Councillocalportfolio match
- Buncombe County Partnership for Children Inclocal
- Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdnportfolio match
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
92% of ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Asheville Area Arts Councillocalportfolio matchNC · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Buncombe County Partnership for Children InclocalNC · funds 53 organizations near you
- Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Porter Fleming Fdn Tr Uaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Main Street Alabamaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Carolina Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Destination Augustaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kw Beverage Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Arts Council of Greensboro Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC?
- ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $18,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($18,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $18,000 in grants to ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 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.
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing