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Tennessee · Public charity

Appalachian Community Fund

APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND proivides resources and support to grassroots groups and community based organizations working for social economic, racial and environmental justice in central appalachia.

$1.2M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,190,623
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,190,623
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2018 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2023
$7.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Appalachian Community Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$1.2M100%
FY20191$107k100%
FY20181$117kn/a
0% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Other$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2023.

Individual grant recipient$1,190,623

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About Appalachian Community Fund

How much does Appalachian Community Fund give?
Appalachian Community Fund reported 1 grants totaling $1,190,623 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
Does Appalachian Community Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Appalachian Community Fund based?
Appalachian Community Fund is based in TN.

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 3 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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