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Amy Wellness Foundation

To improve the health and well-being of the people in western north carolina, with particular emphasis on those living in avery, mitchell, and yancey counties.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHousing & Shelter$826kHealth$612kEducation$551kCrime & Legal$200kCommunity Improvement$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $365k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $918k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$40,625
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AVERY YMCA$500,000
MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH$300,000
HIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH$250,000
TRACTOR FOOD & FARMS$150,000
W A M Y COMMUNITY ACTION INC$130,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
MITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE$100,000
SOUTHERN RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES$80,625
FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES$72,600
DIG IN YANCEY COMMUNITY GARDEN$70,000
PARTNERS ALIGNED TOWARD HEALTH$60,000
MITCHELL SHEPHERDS STAFF$55,000
AVERY COUNTY SCHOOLS$50,000
HANDS OF HOPE$50,000
CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION$45,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $508k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEIGHBORHOOD TABLE: $10k → 10%BULADEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $47k → 16%BULADEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $41k → 16%HOSPICE & HOME CARE OF BLUE RIDGE: $25k → 16%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $65k → 21%REACHING AVERY MINISTRIES: $38k → 15%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $28k → 21%MITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE: $100k → 16%MITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE: $75k → 16%MITCHELL SHEPHERDS STAFF: $55k → 16%HOSPICE OF YANCEY COUNTY: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 23 repeat orgs$990k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
8

Total granted

$5.4M
$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+34%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WY
    WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +91%
  • WC
    WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $747k · revenue +57%
  • TR
    Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $369k · revenue +103% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • MC
    MITCHELL COUNTY PUBLIC TRANSPORT
    one grant, 2021 · $84k
  • CC
    CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +36%
  • MC
    MITCHELL COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $60k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Yancey County Committee On Aging Inc

Provide services for elderly

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2
Community Health Network of Wnc

A collaborative network that increases access and improves health outcomes for safety net populations in western north carolina

Health
3
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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4
May Coalition Inc

To create high quality employment opportunities for unemployed and underemployed residents of mitchell, avery, and yancey counties in north carolina

Employment
5
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
6
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
7
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
8
The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc

The hunger and health coalition relieves poverty and hunger for households experiencing economic hardship and food insecurity. we serve low-income and uninsured residents of avery, watauga and ashe counties who are forced to choose between…

Food & Nutrition
9
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.

Housing & Shelter
10
Haywood Pathways Center Inc

Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.

Housing & Shelter
11
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
12
Mountain Mediation Services

Provided mediation services and information to clients in six counties of western north carolina to resolve conflicts through mediation between individuals or organizations.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Country Community Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anc Blue Ridge Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRural Faith & Community Cen…Rural Community Support Ser…Local Community Organizatio…Volunteer Fire & Rescue Ser…Christian International Mis…Disaster Recovery & Communi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr21%26%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr11%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr15%41%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr11%14%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
11%
67/637

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $747,000 · OtherWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INCSouthern Reconciliation Ministries Inc — $285,384 · OtherSouthern Reconciliation Ministr…YANCEY COUNTY SCHOOLS — $120,250 · OtherYANCEY COUNTY SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAVERY COUNTY SCHOOLS — $100,000 · OtherAVERY COUNTY SCHOOLSMITCHELL COUNTY PUBLIC TRANSPORT — $83,500 · Other+13 more — $366,100 · Other+13 moreWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY — $1,606,074 · Youth DevelopmentWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNT…MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC — $310,000 · HealthMOUNTAIN COMMUNITY H…HIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $250,000 · HealthHIGH COUNTRY COMMUNI…ANC BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL INC — $216,038 · HealthANC BLUE RIDGE HOSPI…Partners Aligned Toward Health — $108,070 · HealthPartners Aligned Tow…CAREREACH INC — $100,000 · HealthCAREREACH INCCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $75,000 · HealthCROSSNORE COMMUNITIE…Hands of Hope North Carolina — $50,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION — $45,000 · HealthToe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc — $368,658 · Food & NutritionToe River Aggre…Dig In Yancey Community Garden — $212,557 · Food & NutritionDig In Yancey C…FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC — $160,100 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AVERY F…MITCHELL GIVING GARDENS — $107,525 · Food & NutritionMITCHELL GIVING…NEIGHBORS FEEDING NEIGHBORS FOOD MI — $45,000 · Food & NutritionMITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION — $93,000 · Human ServicesBULADEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $87,865 · Human ServicesMITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERDS STAFF — $55,000 · Human ServicesREACHING AVERY MINISTRY — $37,500 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator — $25,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Yancey County Inc — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesBLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $249,860 · EducationCAMP SPRING CREEK INC — $44,270 · EducationMayland Community College Foundation Inc — $14,790 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES — $200,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,802,234Youth Development$1,606,074Health$1,154,108Food & Nutrition$893,840Human Services$508,365Education$318,920Crime & Legal$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY — $1,606,074 over 5y, 16% of budgetWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $747,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetToe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc — $368,658 over 3y, 30% of budgetMOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC — $310,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSouthern Reconciliation Ministries Inc — $285,384 over 5y, 17% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $249,860 over 4y, 11% of budgetANC BLUE RIDGE HOSPITAL INC — $216,038 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDig In Yancey Community Garden — $212,557 over 4y, 30% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES — $200,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE INC — $175,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetFEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC — $160,100 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPartners Aligned Toward Health — $108,070 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetMITCHELL GIVING GARDENS — $107,525 over 3y, 66% of budgetCAREREACH INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION — $93,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetBULADEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $87,865 over 2y, 50% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERDS STAFF — $55,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetAVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORS FEEDING NEIGHBORS FOOD MI — $45,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION — $45,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCAMP SPRING CREEK INC — $44,270 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetREACHING AVERY MINISTRY — $37,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetSPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $37,100 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of Yancey County Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMayland Community College Foundation Inc — $14,790 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARTHUR MORGAN SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAVERY ASSOCIATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CITIZENS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD TABLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSPRUCE PINE MAIN STREET INC — $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHRIVE APPALACHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Dogwood Health TrustManna Food Bank IncSamuel L Phillips Fam…Mountain Air Communit…Wnc Bridge FoundationThe High Country Char…Arthur Family Foundat…Foundation for the Ca…The Cannon Foundation…Grandfather Community…The Conservation Fund…
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC67.5× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Manna Food Bank Inc · Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation · Mountain Air Community Fund Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · The High Country Charitable Foundation · Arthur Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Grandfather Community Foundation Inc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Amy Wellness Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Amy Wellness Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Amy Wellness 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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