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· 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.

$5.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHousing & Shelter$826kHealth$612kEducation$551kCrime & Legal$200kCommunity Improvement$84kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $356k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $879k
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.5M
$60,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHIEF CARES$2,012,500
AVERY COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY$881,344
AVERY YMCA$550,000
MITCHELL COUNTY LONG TERM$463,833
MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSH$316,667
YANCEY COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY$251,166
MITCHELL SHEPHERDS STAFF$147,307
SOUTHERN RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES$143,958
HIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH$133,333
TRACTOR FOOD & FARMS$85,000
FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES$78,333
MITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE$66,000
DIG IN YANCEY COMMUNITY GARDEN$65,130
BLUE RIDGE RESOURCE CONSERVATION$60,000
MAYLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $722k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEIGHBORHOOD TABLE: $10k → 10%BULADEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $47k → 16%BULADEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $41k → 16%HOSPICE & HOME CARE OF BLUE RIDGE: $25k → 16%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $65k → 21%REACHING AVERY MINISTRIES: $38k → 15%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $28k → 21%MITCHELL SHEPHERDS STAFF: $147k → 16%MITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE: $100k → 16%MITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE: $75k → 16%MITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE: $66k → 16%MITCHELL SHEPHERDS STAFF: $55k → 16%HOSPICE OF YANCEY COUNTY: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 27 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
18

Total granted

$7.6M
$630k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+14%

Still filing today

85%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationPublic Safety & DisasterEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WY
    WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +91%
  • WC
    WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $790k · revenue +57%
  • MC
    MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $627k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • MC
    MITCHELL COUNTY PUBLIC TRANSPORT
    one grant, 2021 · $84k
  • CC
    CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +25%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Yancey County Committee On Aging Inc

Provide services for elderly

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2
Ashe County Recovery and Restoration

Ashe County Recovery and Restoration was established in October 2024 in response to the devastation in Ashe County, nc that occured as a result of Hurricane Helene.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
4
May Coalition Inc

To create high quality employment opportunities for unemployed and underemployed residents of mitchell, avery, and yancey counties in north carolina

Employment
5
Community Health Network of Wnc

A collaborative network that increases access and improves health outcomes for safety net populations in western north carolina

Health
6
Elk River Helping Hands

Elk River Helping Hands Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting in the aftermath of catastrophic events with needs of the people of the High Country of North Carolina, including but not limited to Avery and Watauga…

Human Services
7
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.

Housing & Shelter
8
The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc

The hunger and health coalition relieves poverty and hunger for households experiencing economic hardship and food insecurity. we serve low-income and uninsured residents of avery, watauga and ashe counties who are forced to choose between…

Food & Nutrition
9
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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10
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
11
Carolina Common Enterprise

The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…

Community Improvement
12
Haywood Pathways Center Inc

Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Rural Health Innovation; the most unlike its peers is Camp Spring Creek Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
29/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHIEF CARES INC: $2,012,500 · OtherCHIEF CARES INCWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $789,500 · OtherWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INCSouthern Reconciliation Ministries Inc: $429,342 · OtherSouthern Reconciliation Ministries IncPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $200,000 · Other+24 more: $1,069,232 · Other+24 moreWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $2,156,074 · Youth DevelopmentWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVE…MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $626,667 · HealthMOUNTAIN COMMUN…HIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $383,333 · HealthHIGH COUNTRY CO…ANC BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL INC: $216,038 · HealthANC BLUE RIDGE …Partners Aligned Toward Health: $108,070 · HealthPartners Aligne…CAREREACH INC: $100,000 · HealthCAREREACH INCTHE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION: $80,000 · HealthCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $75,000 · Health+2 more: $96,500 · Health+2 moreAVERY COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY: $881,344 · Public Safety & DisasterAVERY COUNTY L…MITCHELL COUNTY LONG-TERM RESILIENCE GROUP: $463,833 · Public Safety & DisasterMITCHELL COUNT…YANCEY COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY: $251,166 · Public Safety & DisasterYANCEY COUNTY …Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc: $453,658 · Food & NutritionToe River …Dig In Yancey Community Garden: $277,687 · Food & NutritionDig In Yan…FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC: $238,433 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AV…MITCHELL GIVING GARDENS: $150,525 · Food & NutritionMITCHELL G…NEIGHBORS FEEDING NEIGHBORS FOOD MI: $45,000 · Food & NutritionMITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE INC: $241,000 · Human ServicesMITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERDS STAFF: $202,307 · Human ServicesHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $93,000 · Human ServicesBULADEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $87,865 · Human ServicesREACHING AVERY MINISTRY: $37,500 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $25,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Yancey County Inc: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $249,860 · EducationMayland Community College Enterprise Corporation: $50,000 · EducationCAMP SPRING CREEK INC: $44,270 · EducationMayland Community College Foundation Inc: $14,790 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · Education
Other$4,500,574Youth Development$2,156,074Health$1,685,608Public Safety & Disaster$1,596,343Food & Nutrition$1,165,303Human Services$721,672Education$368,920

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $2,156,074 over 6y, 16% of budgetAVERY COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY: $881,344 over 1y, 91% of budgetWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $789,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetMOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $626,667 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMITCHELL COUNTY LONG-TERM RESILIENCE GROUP: $463,833 over 1y, 45% of budgetToe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc: $453,658 over 4y, 30% of budgetSouthern Reconciliation Ministries Inc: $429,342 over 6y, 17% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $383,333 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDig In Yancey Community Garden: $277,687 over 5y, 30% of budgetYANCEY COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY: $251,166 over 1y, 31% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $249,860 over 4y, 11% of budgetMITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE INC: $241,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetFEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC: $238,433 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetANC BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL INC: $216,038 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERDS STAFF: $202,307 over 2y, 46% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $200,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMITCHELL GIVING GARDENS: $150,525 over 4y, 66% of budgetPartners Aligned Toward Health: $108,070 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetCAREREACH INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $93,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetBULADEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $87,865 over 2y, 50% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION: $80,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE RESOURCE CONSERV AND DEVEL: $60,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMayland Community College Enterprise Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetNEIGHBORS FEEDING NEIGHBORS FOOD MI: $45,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCAMP SPRING CREEK INC: $44,270 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetREACHING AVERY MINISTRY: $37,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetSPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $37,100 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHRIVE APPALACHIA: $36,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCharity Navigator: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of Yancey County Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMayland Community College Foundation Inc: $14,790 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARTHUR MORGAN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAVERY ASSOCIATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CITIZENS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPRUCE PINE MAIN STREET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD TABLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Community Foundat…Dogwood Health TrustManna Food Bank IncSamuel L Phillips Fam…Mountain Air Communit…Wnc Bridge FoundationThe High Country Char…Arthur Family Foundat…Foundation for the Ca…The Cannon Foundation…Grandfather Community…The Conservation Fund…
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC67.5× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Amy Wellness Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amy Wellness Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Amy Wellness Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Amy Wellness Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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