Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Asheville, North Carolina

45
foundations with an Asheville address
$230.8M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
8
say they accept unsolicited
$11,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 45 foundations that gave an Asheville, North Carolina address on their tax filing — 40 private foundations and 5 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $230.8 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 8 of them (18%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is an Asheville foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 45 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Asheville, North Carolina
Dogwood Health TrustAccepts$37,500$148.2M$2,000–$21MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Tzedek Social Justice FundAccepts$762,221$2.4M$229,000–$2.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Lb Research and EducationAccepts$25,000$1.5M$10,000–$420,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Sunshine Now FoundationAccepts$80,000$606,775$6,000–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Pisgah Investments Foundation IncAccepts$32,500$417,500$5,000–$150,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Woodson Family Foundation IncAccepts$1,000$83,276$250–$62,276FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Chances for Children Carolinas IncAccepts$43,635$46,870$40,400–$46,870FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Tom and Brenda Nash Foundation IncAccepts$37,500$25,000$25,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncCommunity foundationNot stated$25,000Over $5k only$61.9M$5,025–$3.9MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County IncFederationNot stated$50,000Over $5k only$4.7M$7,200–$1.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$10,000Over $5k only$2.1M$5,000–$1.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Reparations Stakeholder Authority of Asheville RSAAPublic foundationNot stated—Over $5k only$87,643—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Verner IncGrantmaking charityNot stated—Over $5k only$8,813—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Glass Foundation IncInvitation only$2M$2M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Fernandez Pave the Way FoundationInvitation only$11,000$1.2M$261–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Victoria Garrett Legacy FoundationInvitation only$10,000$1.1M$500–$700,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Rusty Pulliam Foundation IncInvitation only$27,500$715,000$5,000–$650,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Jaye F and Betty F Dyer FoundationInvitation only$10,000$500,000$1,000–$500,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Healey FoundationInvitation only$15,000$455,000$10,000–$400,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
David and Terri Kester Foundation IncInvitation only$20,000$413,500$1,000–$40,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Marcotte Family Foundation IncInvitation only$5,250$362,341$1,060–$250,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Midgard FoundationInvitation only$3,000$274,000$1,000–$125,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Richard Eckerd Foundation IncInvitation only$240,000$240,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Oscar C Rixson Foundation IncInvitation only$500$230,500$400–$78,400FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Susan & Charles Shanor Charitable TrustInvitation only$10,000$220,019$19–$125,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.