· Community foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| WAMY Community Action Inc | $10,000 |
| Grandfather Mountain Highland Games | $10,000 |
| Freedom Trails Elementary | $9,300 |
| Avery County High School | $8,000 |
| Mountain Property Services | $7,825 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
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.
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…
Provide services for elderly
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 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.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
To build new homes and repair current homes for low income families at 0 interest
To create high quality employment opportunities for unemployed and underemployed residents of mitchell, avery, and yancey counties in north carolina
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 17 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 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 GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN HIGHLAND GAMES INC ↗
- Who funds WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds The Western Youth Network Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAVE VOLUNTEERS INC ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grandfather Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grandfather Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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