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Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council

The conserving of natural resources and improving rural economies through leadership and education.

$66k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0150% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Public Benefit$56kEnvironment$42kHousing & Shelter$40kCommunity Improvement$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$11,807
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Town of Pitman Center$15,296
Individual grant recipient$12,356
Individual grant recipient$11,807
Individual grant recipient$10,504
Individual grant recipient$9,500
Individual grant recipient$6,557
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%Saddle Ridge Property Owners Assoc: $17k → 10%City of Baneberry: $11k → 11%Sevier County: $12k → 12%Cumberland Lakes: $7k → 19%Lone Mountain Shores: $11k → 20%Appalachian Sustainable Development: $25k → 11%Fawn Hollow POA: $12k → 10%Sevier County: $8k → 12%Lone Mountain Shores: $10k → 20%Appalachian Sustainable Development: $17k → 11%Laurel Valley: $10k → 10%Sevier Co Fire Department: $7k → 12%Laurel Valley: $8k → 10%Town of Pitman Center: $15k → 12%Stonegate Homeowners Assoc: $8k → 10%English Mt Property Owners Assoc: $6k → 12%Fawn Hollow POA: $5k → 10%East Gatlinburg Assoc: $18k → 12%Cobbly Knob Property Owners Assoc: $10k → 12%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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$117k · 5 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$117k
$117k

Still filing today

20%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AS
    APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    2× · 2019–2020 · $42k · revenue +260%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2021 · $21k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Pigeon Forge
    one grant, 2019 · $41k
  • EG
    East Gatlinburg Assoc
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
  • SR
    Saddle Ridge Property Owners Assoc
    one grant, 2019 · $17k
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
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Pigeon Forge: $41,122 · OtherCity of Pigeon ForgeIndividual grant recipient: $20,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $17,828 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEast Gatlinburg Assoc: $17,667 · OtherEast Gatlinburg AssocIndividual grant recipient: $17,095 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSaddle Ridge Property Owners Assoc: $16,930 · OtherSaddle Ridge Property Owners AssocTown of Pitman Center: $15,296 · OtherTown of Pitman CenterIndividual grant recipient: $10,744 · OtherCobbly Knob Property Owners Assoc: $10,000 · OtherStonegate Homeowners Assoc: $7,617 · Other+3 more: $19,170 · Other+3 moreAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $41,906 · Community ImprovementAPPALACHIAN SUSTAI…
Other$213,969Community Improvement$41,906

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $41,906 over 2y, 1.2% 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.

  • Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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 15 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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