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Evergreen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $530k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $257k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEARL PSYCHEDELIC INSTITUTE | $56,875 |
| SWAIN COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $50,294 |
| MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $50,000 |
| MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $50,000 |
| MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $50,000 |
| SEEK HEALING | $49,400 |
| JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $45,000 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA PACESETTERS | $42,000 |
| HERE IN JACKSON COUNTY | $42,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $40,000 |
| HERE IN JACKSON COUNTY | $35,000 |
| CORNBREAD AND ROSES COUNSELING | $35,000 |
| MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $34,000 |
| REACH OF MACON COUNTY | $30,000 |
| HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $611k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Evergreen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HIHIGHTS Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $314k · revenue +924%
- AWAdults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $221k · revenue +142%
- KIKids Interdisciplinary Services Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $204k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- AAAPPALACHIAN ACCESSone grant, 2019 · $76k
- MPMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +76%
- CMChild Medical Collaborative Incone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Providing a safe, nurturing environment for youth in need
Home, Counseling & Support for Hurting Teens
The Counseling Center strives to strengthen families and individuals by providing access to quality mental health services regardless of financial ability.
To provide a continuum of professional services to promote healthier lives, stronger families, and safer communities.
The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.
Provide a community owned and operated shelter for a safe haven from domestic violence for women and their children in beaufort county, nc. provide counseling and guidance to allow these women to make decisions about their future.
HCBH provides mental health and substance abuse counseling.
Rehabilitation of the Mentally Ill
To bridge the gap between homelessness and permanent housing for both families and individuals. We are dedicated to providing a safe, transitional shelter, along with essential services, to empower those in need and pave the way toward…
As a non-profit, the black mountain counseling center provides mental health counseling without regard to a client's ability to pay. services are provided by licensed, experienced counselors working with children, adults and families…
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
Shalom House Ministries Inc operates a treatment center for women struggling with drug and alcohol addition. It also offers transitional dwelling for women who need a safe place after treatment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Projects Inc and the most unlike its peers is Special Liberty Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 82 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HIGHTS Inc ↗
- Who funds Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc ↗
- Who funds Kids Interdisciplinary Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SeekHealing ↗
- Who funds KARE Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA PACESETTERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES EDUCATION ASST COUNSELING AND HOUSING OF MACON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Haywood Pathways Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Domestic Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PEARL PSYCHEDELIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HERE in Jackson County Inc ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN ACCESS ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands of Haywood ↗
- Who funds ELIADA HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Swain Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Child Medical Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION HOUSE WNC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REGION A PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Nantahala Health Foundation · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Manna Food Bank Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Impact Health · Pisgah Health Foundation · Great Smokies Health Foundation · Haywood Health Foundation Inc
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 Evergreen 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.
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.
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