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Episcopal Foundation of Western NC

Episcopal Foundation of Western NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$170k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$3.9M
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Episcopal Foundation of Western NC does

Mission

To foster, develop and contribute to the support of religious, educational and charitable work of the Episcopal Church Diocese of WNC and elsewhere through grants, loans and gifts to agency bodies affiliated with the Church.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Episcopal Foundation of WNC is a nonprofit organization founded in 1962 to provide funds to needy parishes. In 2025, the Foundation provided eight grants to Western North Carolina churhes. The funds were given to improve their properties allowing the entities to continue their vital ministries.

    $137,526 spentof which $122,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $137,526.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($137k) Expenses 100 ($90k) Net assets 100 ($2.6M)2018 Revenue 206 ($284k) Expenses 52 ($47k) Net assets 95 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 40 ($55k) Expenses 98 ($88k) Net assets 110 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 170 ($234k) Expenses 172 ($154k) Net assets 124 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 211 ($289k) Expenses 82 ($74k) Net assets 146 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 0 ($387) Expenses 149 ($134k) Net assets 118 ($3.1M)2023 Revenue 78 ($107k) Expenses 223 ($200k) Net assets 126 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 516 ($709k) Expenses 169 ($152k) Net assets 138 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 124 ($170k) Expenses 157 ($141k) Net assets 147 ($3.9M)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (157)Net assets (147)Peer revenue range

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 $3.8M to $3.1M (−19%).

$2.6M
$2.5M
$2.9M
$3.3M
$3.8M
$3.1M
$3.3M
$3.6M
$3.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

1% of Episcopal Foundation of Western NC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,342 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’17
$237k
’18
−$33k
’19
$80k
’20
$215k
’21
−$134k
’22
−$93k
’23
$557k
’24
$30k
’25
25
months of
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.

Board chair

Dillon Manly

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed810988881010
Joined·+2+2+2+3+0+0+5+3
No longer listed·03330033
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $15k.

Funder
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Episcopal Foundation of Western NC’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

Episcopal Foundation of Western NC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
North Carolina out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Episcopal Foundation of Western NC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve24.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Episcopal Foundation of Western NC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Episcopal Foundation of Western NC?
Episcopal Foundation of Western NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Episcopal Foundation of Western NC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to Episcopal Foundation of Western NC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Episcopal Foundation of Western NC?
EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Episcopal Foundation of Western NC 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 1 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