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Grandfather Community Foundation Inc
To identify avenues for the members of grandfather golf and country club to improve the lives of the people of avery county and mobilize the members to do so through education and service opportunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $505,739 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,059,265 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $553,526 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $202k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Appalachia Service Project | $250,000 |
| Riverside PTO | $30,000 |
| Banner Elk PTO | $30,000 |
| High Country Community Health | $25,000 |
| Williams YMCA of Avery County | $25,000 |
| Newland Elementary School | $19,774 |
| Feeding Avery Families | $15,000 |
| Avery Humane Society | $13,500 |
| Yellow Mountain Enterprises | $13,000 |
| Kiwanas Club of Banner Elk | $11,000 |
| Grandfather Mountain Highland Games | $10,000 |
| WAMY Community Action Inc | $10,000 |
| Freedom Trails Elementary | $9,300 |
| Avery County High School | $8,000 |
| Mountain Property Services | $7,825 |
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 (FY22–24, $10k) 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 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.
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.
Affordable home ownership
Volunteer Avery County finds resources to aid families and individuals that do not qualify for public assistance and fall through the cracks.
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…
Provide services for elderly
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
A collaborative network that increases access and improves health outcomes for safety net populations in western north carolina
Provide support to families in need.
The organization is a community-based mutual-aid nonprofit, providing supplies and support to people experiencing homelessness and advocating for compassionate, just, and collaborative solutions to homelessness.
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
To build new homes and repair current homes for low income families at 0 interest
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Avery Association for Exceptional Citizens and the most unlike its peers is Grandfather Mountain Highland Games Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 17 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 APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds AVERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AVERY ASSOCIATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN HIGHLAND GAMES INC ↗
- Who funds The Western Youth Network Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAVE VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
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 High Country Charitable Foundation · Amy Wellness Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Arthur Family Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Grandfather Community Foundation Inc 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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