· Private foundation
Evergreen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HERE IN JACKSON COUNTY | $42,000 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA PACESETTERS | $42,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $40,000 |
| CORNBREAD AND ROSES COUNSELING | $35,000 |
| HERE IN JACKSON COUNTY | $35,000 |
| MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $34,000 |
| HAYWOOD VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES | $30,000 |
| REACH OF MACON COUNTY | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Evergreen Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 84%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 82 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Evergreen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evergreen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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