North Carolina · Nonprofit
COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC
COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,348,786 to it, the largest being LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ($1,757,457). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $220k
What Council on Aging of Buncombe County Inc does
Mission
Promoting and improving the general health and welfare of senior adults in buncombe county by administering a variety of programs and services designed to meet their needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Resource coordination medicare/benefits enrollment center hurricane helene impacted wnc in the middle of open enrollment for medicare. Despite the tremendous challenges, staff and volunteers advised 2,892 persons about their medicare plans in buncombe and henderson counties through the senior health insurance information program (shiip). In 2024- 25, staff and volunteers also presented at or attended 36 community outreach events in order to better engage groups such as low income, rural, disabled, formerly incarcerated, and black and hispanic communities. Affordable care act coabc continued its successful leadership of the affordable care act navigation program. The coabc team included two full-time bilingual navigators serving four western north carolina counties (buncombe, henderson, polk, and transylvania). The program continued to grow, advising 2,936 persons on their aca plan and enrollment. In addition to aca navigation, we assisted clients with enrolling in primary care, specialty care, and - when necessary - financial assistance. Our navigators worked with the premium and copayment assistance program (pcap), a part of the north carolina hiv medication assistance program…
$558,030 spent60% of program spendingCommunity services - care management community services staff assist buncombe county residents with understanding and accessing a variety of services throughout the community. Our staff connect online, over the phone, and in-person via coabc offices or outreach events. We helped clients access 98,648 in caregiver respite funds in buncombe and madison counties, answered over 6,671 information and assistance calls for 1,668 unique clients, completed 79 minor home repair projects, and provided heat relief in the form of box fans and air conditioners to 233 clients. We delivered shelf-stable food to 131 homebound clients and our volunteers provided transportation for 83 client appointments.
$167,932 spent18% of program spendingSenior dining & wellness - - we served over 12,296 meals. We were able to serve 585 unique individuals. We continued to offer dine-in and curbside pick-up this past year, especially in the aftermath of hurricane helene and the challenges to the regional water system.
$198,026 spent21% of program spendingOther accomplishments: our organization continues to make great strides to increase private support as well as enhance our infrastructure to expand services, innovate programming outside of traditional government grants, and collaborate with grassrootsorganizations and other nonprofits. We continue to "stand in the gap" of services for older adults in our service area. We continue to be a living wage certified employer through justeconomics and further our efforts for program evaluation, iversity/equity/inclusion/accessibility, a "hub and spoke" model of service, and integrating in cross-sector partnerships that include clinical settings.
$158 spent$4,629 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $924,146.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $801k to $506k (−37%).
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 66% · 2018 51% · 2019 57% · 2020 51% · 2021 80% · 2022 73% · 2023 71% · 2024 73% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
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
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 10 funders, grant income rose $282k → $570k.
3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 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
COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 30% · 2020 31% · 2021 31% · 2022 60% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
82% of COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 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. $123k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC?
- COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,348,786 to it, the largest being LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ($1,757,457). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,348,786 in grants to COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC?
- LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,757,457 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 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 23 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