Henderson County United Way Inc
Hendersonville, NC · EIN 56-0890133. Reported 121 grants totalling $2,783,021 to 53 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Henderson County United Way Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 82% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,725. Half of what it reported fell between $9,910 and $32,021; the smallest was $5,246 and the largest $227,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of Henderson Co Hendersonville Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $272,864 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Housing Assistance Corporation | Hendersonvlle, NC | $257,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Safelight Inc | Hendersonville, NC | $175,226 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pisgah Legal Services | Asheville, NC | $175,002 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $164,857 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sixth Avenue Psychiatricrehabilitation Partners Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $149,641 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blue Ridge Literacy Council Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $145,552 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Hendersonvlle, NC | $117,438 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Smart Start Partnership for Children Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $108,256 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Manna Food Bank | Mills River, NC | $96,194 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Henderson County Free Medical Clinic Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $93,893 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mountain Aging Partners Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $81,210 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Interfaith Assistance Ministry Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $61,509 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc | Asheville, NC | $49,762 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Medical Loan Closet of Henderson County Inc | Hendersonville, NC | $47,326 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Calvary Episcopal Church Food Panty Inc | Fletcher, NC | $47,198 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Western North Carolina Inc | Asheville, NC | $45,529 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Henderson County Rescue Squad | Hendersonvlle, NC | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pardee Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $40,731 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mountaincare Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $40,339 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vocational Solutions of Henderson C | East Flat Rock, NC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hospice of Henderson County Inc | Flat Rock, NC | $39,170 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Helping Hand Developmentel Center Inc | E Flat Rock, NC | $35,367 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Western North Carolina Inc | Asheville, NC | $32,282 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hope Coalition Corp | Hendersonvlle, NC | $30,195 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Housing Assistance Corp | Hendersonville, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Woven Non Profit | Kingston Spgs, TN | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of North Carolina | Cary, NC | $27,702 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Aspire Youth & Family Inc | Balsam, NC | $23,721 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Western Carolina Community Action Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way Worldwide | Alexandria, VA | $16,840 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| My Fathers Storehouse | Hendersonvlle, NC | $16,475 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Crossnore Communities for Children | Crossnore, NC | $15,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Gerard House | Hendersonvlle, NC | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project | Asheville, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Henderson County Education Foundation Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $14,162 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mediation Center | Asheville, NC | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caja Solidaria | Mills River, NC | $11,190 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hola Carolina | Asheville, NC | $11,190 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pan De Vida | Hendersonvlle, NC | $11,190 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Back on Track Addiction Ministry | Hendersonville, NC | $10,385 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Baptist Church Hendersonville - Love's Kitchen Food Pantry | Hendersonville, NC | $10,385 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Baptist Church of East Flat Rock Food Pantry | Hendersonville, NC | $10,385 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope UMC - Welcome Table | East Flat Rock, NC | $10,385 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Only Hope Wnc | E Flat Rock, NC | $10,385 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church Community Food Pantry | Edneyville, NC | $10,385 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $10,385 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| True Ridge | Hendersonvlle, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Central and Southern Utah | Provo, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young Men Christian Association of Western North Carolina | Asheville, NC | $7,346 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | Tampa, FL | $6,462 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Haywood County Inc | Waynesville, NC | $5,757 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
28 of 53 (53%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 35 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $541,377 | $21,002 |
| 2022 | 28 | $585,954 | $14,488 |
| 2023 | 27 | $563,308 | $12,728 |
| 2024 | 43 | $1,092,382 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
10 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 40 grants totalling $37,903 to Henderson County United Way Inc. That is 33% of the 30 funders we can see giving to it. Those 10 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a federated giving programme.
4 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park National Corporation Foundation | Ohio | $11,030 | 5 | 4 | 2025 |
| Bt Charitable Foundation | New York | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Smurfit Westrock US Foundation | Georgia | $7,708 | 24 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Pfizer Foundation Inc | New York | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ac Israel Foundation Inc | New York | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Vineyard Family Foundation | Delaware | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Edward Jones Foundation | Missouri | $300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $217 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation | Delaware | $98 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Baird Foundation Inc | Wisconsin | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,725 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Henderson County United Way Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 487, Hendersonville, NC, 28793.
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