North Carolina · Public charity
Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation
Provide assistance for electric and heating utility bills and financial support for nonprofit community organizations that meet educational, healthcare, economic, and community development needs.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $140k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,258
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $101k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | 13 | $140k | 54% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $185k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $105k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $174k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $114k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $209k | 77% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $99k | 86% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashe Memorial Hospital Inc | $102,258 | 6 | 0% |
| Alleghany County Memorial Hospital Inc | $90,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Wilkes Community College | $83,817 | 4 | n/a |
| The Foundation of Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute Inc | $62,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care Inc Dba Amorem | $62,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Caldwell Memorial Hospital Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Town of Hudson | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The Western Youth Network Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Caldwell Mem Hospital Foundation | $37,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Pond Mountain Volunteer Fire & Rescue Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 9% |
Show all 56 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Bernhardt Furniture Foundation · Stevens Family Foundation Inc · Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Little Farm Foundation · The Alfred B and Josette L Glover Foundation · High Country United Way · The Wilson Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation
- How much does Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation give?
- Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $139,758, out of $225,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Education (21%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ashe Memorial Hospital Inc ($102k), Alleghany County Memorial Hospital Inc ($90k), Wilkes Community College ($84k).
- Does Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, The Cannon Foundation Inc, Bernhardt Furniture Foundation.
- Where is Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation based?
- Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation is based in NC.
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