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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
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.

Health$353kEducation$219kHuman Services$119kPublic Safety & Disaster$91kEnvironment$57kPublic Benefit$50kYouth Development$40kFood & Nutrition$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $139,758, the rows itemized in this filing. The $225,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,242 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$101k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$17,258
CALDWELL MEM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$12,500
AMOREM$12,500
ASU FOUNDATION INC-WALKER COLL BLD$12,500
FRIENDS OF WATAUGA CTY PUB LIBRARY$10,000
FOSCOE GRANDFATHER COMM CTR & PARK$10,000
ALLEGHANY HEALTH$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW NC$10,000
COLLETTSVILLE RURITAN CLUB$10,000
ASHE REALLY CARES$10,000
ALLEGHANY COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD$10,000
FREEDOM FARM ADDICTION TREATMENT C$7,500
WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC$7,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK: $25k → 21%WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK: $15k → 21%SHOES FOR KIDS: $10k → 14%AMOREM: $13k → 21%Shoes for Kids: $10k → 14%AMOREM: $13k → 21%AMOREM: $13k → 21%Ashe Services For Aging: $10k → 14%BLUE RIDGE DEVELOPMENTAL DAY: $10k → 16%AMOREM: $25k → 16%SHOES FOR KIDS: $8k → 14%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%OASIS INC: $8k → 21%BLUE RIDGE DEVELOPMENTAL DAY: $9k → 16%BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION: $5k → 16%CALDWELL CO YOKEFELLOW INC: $13k → 16%CALDWELL CO YOKEFELLOW INC: $9k → 16%THE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTY: $8k → 16%Caldwell Opportunities Inc: $7k → 16%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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$810k · 19 repeat orgs$380k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
30

Total granted

$810k
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+24%

Still filing today

84%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • AM
    ASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +51%
  • Alleghany County Memorial Hospital Inc
    2× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +84%
  • CM
    CALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • PO
    PARTNERSHIP OF ASHEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +59%
  • PC
    PINEY CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +54%
  • NR
    New River Conservancy
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +10%
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
Ashford-Northcove Vfd

To provide fire protection to the ashford north cove cmmunity of mcdowell country north carolina

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
3
Alamance County Rescue Unit Inc

To provide specialty emergency services in a professional manner to the citizens and guests of alamance county, surrounding counties and the state of north carolina.

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4
Caldwell Fire Department Inc

The organization is a local volunteer fire department providing fire and rescue services to residents in their district.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
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
6
Volunteer Avery County & Community Services Inc

Volunteer Avery County finds resources to aid families and individuals that do not qualify for public assistance and fall through the cracks.

Human Services
7
Avery County Long Term Recovery Group Inc

ACLTRG serves as the central coordinating hub for long-term recovery in Avery County, aligning nonprofit organizations, faith-based partners, volunteers, public agencies, and funders to reduce duplication, maximize resources, and ensure…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Ash-Rand Rescue Squad & Ems Inc

Emergency and resecue services to randalph county, north carolina.

Health
9
West Yancey Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide an all volunteer fire protection & emergency services for a section of yancey county, north carolina.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
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
11
Casville Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Volunteer fire protection/1st responders

Public Safety & Disaster
12
The Crooked Creek Township Vfd

To provide fire protection to the crooked creek community of mcdowell county north carolina

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alleghany County Memorial Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Life Village 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

48 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. 48 of the 56 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
33/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $102,258 · HealthASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCAlleghany County Memorial Hospital Inc: $90,000 · HealthAlleghany County Memorial Ho…CALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 · HealthCALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL I…ASHE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $18,500 · HealthASHE COUNTY RESCUE SQUADALLEGHANY WELLNESS CENTER INC: $17,500 · HealthALLEGHANY WELLNESS CENTER IN…CALDWELL HALFWAY HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $8,500 · HealthWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $83,817 · OtherWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGETOWN OF HUDSON: $50,000 · OtherTOWN OF HUDSONCALDWELL MEM HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $37,500 · OtherCALDWELL MEM HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONRIVERVIEW COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $22,500 · OtherRIVERVIEW COMMUNITY CENTER INCGREATER LANSING AREA DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE INC: $15,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $20,000 · Other+20 more: $182,500 · Other+20 moreCALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA AMOREM: $62,500 · Human ServicesCALDWELL HOSPICE AND…The Western Youth Network Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesThe Western Youth Ne…SHOES FOR KIDS: $27,500 · Human ServicesSHOES FOR KIDSCaldwell County Yokefellow Inc: $21,500 · Human ServicesCaldwell County Yoke…BLUE RIDGE DEVELOPMENTAL DAY: $18,500 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDGE DEVELOPME…ASHE SERVICES FOR AGING INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTYINC: $8,000 · Human ServicesOPPOSING ABUSE WITH SERVICE INFORMATION & SHELTER: $7,500 · Human Services+2 more: $12,192 · Human Services+2 morePOND MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE INC: $31,000 · Public Safety & DisasterALLEGHANY COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $30,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPINEY CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterKINGS CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $62,500 · PhilanthropyBLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $24,000 · EnvironmentNew River Conservancy: $15,000 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentMountainTrue: $7,500 · EnvironmentPARTNERSHIP OF ASHE: $30,000 · EducationALLEGHANY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · EducationPATTERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · Education
Health$296,758Other$411,317Human Services$217,692Public Safety & Disaster$91,000Philanthropy$62,500Environment$56,500Education$54,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $102,258 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAlleghany County Memorial Hospital Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $62,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA AMOREM: $62,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Western Youth Network Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPOND MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE INC: $31,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetALLEGHANY COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPARTNERSHIP OF ASHE: $30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSHOES FOR KIDS: $27,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetBLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY: $24,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERVIEW COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $22,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetCaldwell County Yokefellow Inc: $21,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPINEY CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE DEVELOPMENTAL DAY: $18,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetASHE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $18,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetALLEGHANY WELLNESS CENTER INC: $17,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNew River Conservancy: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER LANSING AREA DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetALLEGHANY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $13,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCALDWELL HALFWAY HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFriends of Watauga County Public Library: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCOLLETTSVILLE RURITAN CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetASHE SERVICES FOR AGING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAUREL SPRINGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKINGS CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPATTERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE LENOIR SOUP KITCHEN INC: $8,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetALLEGHANY COUNTY GROUP HOMES INC: $8,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTYINC: $8,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFORT DEFIANCE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF WATAUGA COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPPOSING ABUSE WITH SERVICE INFORMATION & SHELTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUGAR GROVE DEVELOPMENTAL DAY SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMountainTrue: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom Farm Ministries: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALDWELL OPPORTUNITIES: $6,870 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASHE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET INC: $6,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC: $5,322 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

North Carolina Commun…The Cannon Foundation…Bernhardt Furniture F…Stevens Family Founda…Womens Fund of the Bl…Broyhill Family Found…Foundation for the Ca…The Community Foundat…The Little Farm Found…The Alfred B and Jose…High Country United W…The Wilson Family Fou…
North Carolina Community FoundationNC44.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Blue Ridge Energy Members 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 56 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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