North Carolina · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC
UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,441,541 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($4,711,433). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $15M
What United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc does
Mission
We mobilize and support a robust network of people, partners, and resources to co-create opportunities for every person in our community to live free from poverty and injustice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Community schools every child deserves the chance to reach their full potential. United way is committed to working with community partners to clear the path to success, from early childhood through college and career. Our staff show up to work every day in one of nine public schools where they are responsible for aligning resources and partnerships to create hubs of support for students and families. One example: between september 4 and december 18, 2025, 4,382 people attended the 55 community nights held at local schools. Families found a healthy meal for the whole family, opportunities to connect with teachers and neighbors, and access academic support for their children. United for youth this multi-generational, cross-sector, cradle-to-career partnership was forged between asheville city schools, buncombe county schools, united way of asheville and buncombe county, and representatives of local health, social service, higher education, and youth services community partners. Ensuring that by 2035, all youth graduate from high school ready to achieve their goals and dreams is the group's bold community goal. The united for youth leadership team, which included members…
$7,851,523 spentof which $1,164,276 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,851,523.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.4M to $15M (+81%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Daniel Leroy
CEO
Board chair
Himanshu Karvir
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $517k → $1.4M.
37 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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.
How concentrated its funding is
UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 48% · 2019 22% · 2020 48% · 2021 57% · 2022 57% · 2023 36% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
79% of UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND 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. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC?
- UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,441,541 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($4,711,433). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $14,441,541 in grants to UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,711,433 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND 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.
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 119 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