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THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC
THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,814 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($7,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC has grown faster than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education 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 Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Anc Healthcare Inclocalportfolio match
- Mills Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
80% of THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $50.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT 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
THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
74% of THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT 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. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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
- Anc Healthcare Inclocalportfolio matchFL · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mills Family Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchNC · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Buncombe County Partnership for Children InclocalNC · funds 53 organizations near you
- The Alfred B and Josette L Glover Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary Murrill Oakes Family Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation D/B/A Wyndham Championshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Futch Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Halstead Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Womens Funding Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliatesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Timmons 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 THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT 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 GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC?
- THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,814 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($7,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,814 in grants to THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $7,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GEM FUNDTHE AAUW ASHEVILLE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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