Walnut Cove Members Association Inc
Skyland, NC · EIN 61-1698757. Reported 113 grants totalling $2,152,202 to 47 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 Walnut Cove Members Association Inc, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 5% 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. 74% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $14,909 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $28,825. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eblen Charities | Asheville, NC | $115,837 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project | Asheville, NC | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Calvary Episcopal Church Food Panty Inc | Fletcher, NC | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Haywood Street Congregation | Asheville, NC | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Asheville Poverty Initiative | Asheville, NC | $94,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Asheville-Buncombe Community Christian Ministry Inc | Arden, NC | $93,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Helping at Risk Kids Inc | Charlotte, NC | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Manna Food Bank | Mills River, NC | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pisgah Legal Services | Asheville, NC | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Henderson Co Hendersonville Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $87,012 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Food Connection Inc | Asheville, NC | $86,350 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Church of the Advocatered Door Min | Asheville, NC | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Vincent Depaul Society | Arden, NC | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Riverlink Inc | Asheville, NC | $76,921 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc | Asheville, NC | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arc of Buncombe County Inc | Asheville, NC | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Arboretum Society | Asheville, NC | $63,746 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Men Christian Association of Western North Carolina | Asheville, NC | $62,012 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fletcher Hospital Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $59,781 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bounty & Soul | Black Mtn, NC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc | Asheville, NC | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hospice of Henderson County Inc | Flat Rock, NC | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Foundation Inc | Asheville, NC | $35,260 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Asheville Art Museum Association Inc | Asheville, NC | $28,659 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Various Organizations 5000 Or Less | $28,549 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Vagabond School of the Drama Inc | Flat Rock, NC | $28,171 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Asheville Foundation Inc | Asheville, NC | $26,770 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Helpmate Inc | Asheville, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Unbroken Spirit | Arden, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asheville Humane Society Inc | Asheville, NC | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Organic Growers School | Asheville, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asheville Symphony Society Inc | Asheville, NC | $17,625 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Western North Carolina Inc | Asheville, NC | $17,012 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charlies Angels Animal Rescue | Fletcher, NC | $15,625 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Leo Diabetico Company | Arden, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern Off Road Bicycle Association | Brevard, NC | $14,909 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| No Barriers USA | Fort Collins, CO | $14,114 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Avery Creek Elementary | Arden, NC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Memorycare | Asheville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Council on Aging of Buncombe County Inc | Asheville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mountain Child Advocacy Center | Asheville, NC | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arts for Life | Asheville, NC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Asheville Chamber Music Inc | Asheville, NC | $7,016 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bridges Reading Program | Fletcher, NC | $6,941 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Asheville Municipal Golf Course | Asheville, NC | $5,692 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Asheville Area Arts Council | Asheville, NC | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Mountain College Museums & Arts Center | Asheville, NC | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
30 of 47 (64%) 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 47 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 | 30 | $488,000 | $19,600 |
| 2022 | 27 | $531,000 | $24,781 |
| 2023 | 27 | $555,652 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 29 | $577,550 | $25,000 |
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
99% 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $20,000 -- 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 Walnut Cove Members Association Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 374, Skyland, NC, 28776.
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