North Carolina · Nonprofit
WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,877 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($161,130). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $509k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Western Piedmont Council of Governments does
Mission
The organization shall serve all local government members in alexander, burke, caldwell and catawba counties with professional, cost-effective assistance on a variety of local, regional, state and federal issues and programs
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
To coordinate federal, state and local governmental projects with regional impact
$19,335,450 spent$1,897,455 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,335,450.
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 $8.7M to $9.4M (+9%).
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 67% · 2019 65% · 2020 64% · 2021 86% · 2022 87% · 2023 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Anthony Starr
Executive director
Board chair
Jill Patton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $29k → $164k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS’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
WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 76% — 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
25% of WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% 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 WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS'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. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 248 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2023
Government funding WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.1M
- Department of Commerce$1.1M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$865k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS?
- WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,877 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($161,130). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $508,877 in grants to WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $161,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 9 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