North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 303 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,882,360 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($16,867,116). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$131M
Recipients
1,144
Contributions on record
$72M
Donors on record
309
Payments out are 1.81x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
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.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Foundation Incportfolio match
- Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $8.1M → $12M.
89 of 303 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Western North Carolina Real Estate Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 303 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.
Where its funders are
58% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 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. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 27 statesis 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. Your 303 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 179 organizations that share your funders
- Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cfleadsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Independent Colleges of Indiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholarship America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issuesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Employees' Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William B McGuire Jr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 102 organizations that share your funders
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Western North Carolina Real Estate Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 303 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,882,360 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($16,867,116). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC have?
- IRS filings report 303 organizations giving $69,882,360 in grants to THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $16,867,116 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 303funders 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