North Carolina · Nonprofit
ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC
ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,765 to it, the largest being Asheville Area Arts Council ($21,765). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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 Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Walnut Cove Members Association Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Buncombe County Partnership for Children Inclocal
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.
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: 2020 18% · 2021 14% · 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 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.
How concentrated its funding is
ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
57% of ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 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. 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 Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment Foundationlocalportfolio matchNC · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Walnut Cove Members Association Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchNC · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Buncombe County Partnership for Children InclocalNC · funds 53 organizations near you
- The Millennium Fund CO Winston-Salem Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Futch Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frances & William H Beattie Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Midgard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prisma Health-Upstateportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Destination Augustaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elbert W Rogers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Daniel-Mickel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scsymmes Foundationportfolio 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 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.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 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 INC?
- ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,765 to it, the largest being Asheville Area Arts Council ($21,765). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $55,765 in grants to ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC?
- Asheville Area Arts Council is the largest funder on record, with $21,765 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 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 4funders 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