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Appalachian Regional Healthcare Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Appalachian Regional Healthcare Foundation Inc

Work with appalachian regional healthcare system (arhs) to support healthcare in the surrounding region of western north carolina and promote and facilitate philanthropy on behalf of arhs and its affiliates.

$41k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$677kHealth$61kEducation$50kRecreation & Sports$50kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,591
Median grant
1
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WATAUGA MEDICAL CENTER$40,591
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MURAR FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 10%THE CHRISTIE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 12%THE BLAIR FOUNDATION: $138k → 10%AJ FLETCHER FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%WILLIAM AND NORMA CANNON CHARITABLE TRUST: $20k → 8%THE DICKSON FOUNDATION: $41k → 10%THE MORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST: $70k → 12%BLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP: $25k → 16%WATAUGA MEDICAL CENTER: $41k → 21%THE JOHN F SMIEKEL FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%THE MEDLINE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%NC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%BROYHILL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 16%THE THORESEN FOUNDATION: $150k → 21%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 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
The Nathanson Family Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Tarlton Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Clarkson Family Foundation Pioneer Bank & Trust Trustee
Philanthropy
4
The Parker Foundation
—
5
Morley Foundation
—
6
The Peter-Murray Foundation
Education
7
Nelson Family Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Cameron Foundation
Education
9
The Broughton Foundation
—
10
Atherton Family Foundation
—
11
The Charles Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Charles Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christie Family Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Thoresen Foundation: $150,000 · OtherThoresen FoundationTHE BLAIR FOUNDATION: $137,500 · OtherTHE BLAIR FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $106,998 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST: $70,000 · OtherMORRISON CHARITABLE TRUSTPARK FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherPARK FOUNDATION INCTHE DICKSON FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 · OtherTHE DICKSON FOUNDATION INCWATAUGA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $40,591 · OtherWATAUGA MEDICAL CENTER INCBLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP: $25,000 · Other+4 more: $43,000 · Other+4 moreCHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1AJ FLETCHER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyAJ FLETCHER FOUNDATIONMURAR FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMURAR FOUNDATION INCWCNC CANNON CHARITABLE TRUST: $20,000 · PhilanthropyWCNC CANNON CHARITABLE TRUSTNORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $15,274 · Health
Other$664,089Philanthropy$290,000Health$15,274

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMURAR FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetWCNC CANNON CHARITABLE TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $15,274 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 17 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 2021, released 2021. 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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