North Carolina · Public charity
Amy Wellness Foundation
To improve the health and well-being of the people in western north carolina, with particular emphasis on those living in avery, mitchell, and yancey counties. In doing so, the foundation will make grants to eligible organizations that work to improve the health and well-being of the people in those areas.
- $5.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,012,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Amy Wellness Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $5.7M | 46% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $2.3M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $995k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $687k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $981k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $1.2M | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $153k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $63k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams YMCA of Avery County | $2,156,074 | 6 | 16% |
| Chief Cares Inc | $2,012,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Avery County Long Term Recovery | $881,344 | 1 | 91% |
| Wamy Community Action Inc | $789,500 | 5 | 18% |
| Mountain Community Health Partnership Inc | $626,667 | 3 | 1% |
| Mitchell County Long-Term Resilience Group | $463,833 | 1 | 45% |
| Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc | $453,658 | 4 | 30% |
| Southern Reconciliation Ministries Inc | $429,342 | 6 | 17% |
| High Country Community Health Inc | $383,333 | 2 | 1% |
| Dig In Yancey Community Garden | $277,687 | 5 | 30% |
Show all 52 grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($293k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Amy Wellness Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Manna Food Bank Inc · Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation · Mountain Air Community Fund Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · The High Country Charitable Foundation · Arthur Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Grandfather Community Foundation Inc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation
How this is measured
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About Amy Wellness Foundation
- How much does Amy Wellness Foundation give?
- Amy Wellness Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $5,761,757 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Amy Wellness Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Public Safety & Disaster (22%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
- Who are Amy Wellness Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Williams YMCA of Avery County ($2.2M), Chief Cares Inc ($2.0M), Avery County Long Term Recovery ($881k).
- Does Amy Wellness Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Amy Wellness Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, Manna Food Bank Inc.
- Where is Amy Wellness Foundation based?
- Amy Wellness Foundation is based in NC.
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