North Carolina · Nonprofit
YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc
YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,371,348 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ($715,773). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc does
Mission
Eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Empowerment Childcare (ECC) Program: - 144+ families served across Asheville and Buncombe County - 113 children supported, 8,010+ hours of childcare delivered to the community - 873 meals served, 1,371 snacks provided - 89% of participating families engaged in case management services Early Learning Program (ELP): - Average monthly attendance = 86 - Children enrolled each month = 82 - 90 Nutrition Department: - Meals for ELP = 41,721
$2,648,275 spentof which $5,410 as grants$1,490,780 earned by the program100% of program spendingHealth and Wellness Program: - 618 members, 312 membership units - Average check-in per month = 1,558 - 1,120 classes offered, 40+ workshops or educational classes - Avg 32.25 income-based and 19.8 other discounted memberships per month Light a Path (LAP) Program: - Offers trauma informed classes for people who are incarcerated and in recovery from addiction. - Classes were held at 3 locations: Buncombe County Detention Center, Western Correctional Center for Women in Swannanoa and the First at Blue Ridge recovery program. Aquatics Program: While the pool is closed for rennovations, we have partnered with the JCC allowing YWCA members a discount to join the JCC pool.
Racial Justice Program: - Until Justice Just Is (UJJI) Event Attendees = 25 - Educational efforts: 21 Day Racial Equity, Social Justice Challenge, Racial Justice Workshops - Workshops = 22, Participants = 385 Motherlove Program: - 100% of enrolled studends advanced to the next grade/graduated - 100% accessed prenatal care during pregnancy and received diapers/wipes at each visit - 0 participants experienced a repeated pregnancy and delivery Getting Ahead Program: - Participants who have graduated = 38, participants in case management = 62 - Participants who received emergency assistance = 29, Angel Tree/Holiday Support = 22 families served
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,648,275.
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.
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 $5.1M to $6.3M (+23%).
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 7% · 2018 11% · 2019 7% · 2020 9% · 2021 24% · 2022 30% · 2023 19% · 2024 25% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Diana Sierra
CEO / Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 12 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $294k → $265k.
12 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
61% 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 YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 51% · 2019 59% · 2020 38% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 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
32% of YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
82% of YWCA of Asheville and 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. $755k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
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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
83%
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 YWCA of Asheville and 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc?
- YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,371,348 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ($715,773). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $3,371,348 in grants to YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YWCA of Asheville and Western North Carolina Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $715,773 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YWCA of Asheville and 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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