North Carolina · Nonprofit
WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC
WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,052,587 to it, the largest being CHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1 ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Western Piedmont Foundation Inc does
Mission
Western piedmont foundation, incorporated, a non-profit organization was founded to encourage and develop public and private support for western piedmont community college beyond that provided by county, state and federal funds.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Support to western piedmont community college for scholarships, development grants, fixed asset purchasing and enrichment programs
$1,331,538 spentof which $1,292,481 as grants$158,057 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,331,538.
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 2025 to 2026, from $5.4M to $7.3M (+33%).
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.
89% of WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $61k → $186k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 FOUNDATION 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
WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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
60% of WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
97% of WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION 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. $402k 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.
Against its field
WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 88 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 88 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC?
- WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,052,587 to it, the largest being CHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1 ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,052,587 in grants to WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC?
- CHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1 is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 12 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