How much did Great Smokies Health Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of Great Smokies Health Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

feedingenvironmentnutritious mealsnutritionalfood

2021

—

2023

dentalabused childreneducationallives

2024

board educationdentalabused childrenliveshopebetter

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k10 grants · $146k
$50k–250k3 grants · $270k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

Swain County Board of Education$90,000
Jackson County Board of Education$90,000
Graham Co Board of Education$90,000
Vecinos Inc$22,500
Uncomplicated Kitchen$19,500
East Carolina University - School of Dental Medicine$15,643
Community Table$15,000
HIGHTS Inc$15,000
Blue Ridge Free Dental Clinic$15,000
Jackson County DSS$13,100
Mountain Projects$10,000
Jackson Co Public Schools$10,000
AWAKE Children's Advocacy Center$10,000
Child Medical Collaborative Inc$7,500
Center for Domestic Peace Inc$7,500

02The need

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 (FY23–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$663k · 13 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +169% since the first grant, against +93% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$663k

$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+169%

+93%

Still filing today

54%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

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

CF
Center for Domestic Peace Inc
5× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +45876%
Vecinos Inc
2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +1235%
BR
Blue Ridge Free Dental Clinic
2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +95%

Funded once

CT
Community Tablegraduated
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +93%
5P
5 Point Centergraduated
one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +32376%
SC
Swain Co Health Dept
one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

Counseling Center of Highlands

The Counseling Center strives to strengthen families and individuals by providing access to quality mental health services regardless of financial ability.

Health

High Country Behavioral Health

HCBH provides mental health and substance abuse counseling.

Health

Carolina Therapeutic Services

Behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services

Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services

Cook Community Clinic Inc

To create a medical home for uninsured families and individuals in the communities that we serve.

Health

Wnc Communities

WNC Communities empowers the people of Western North Carolina to cultivate the vitality and prosperity of mountain communities through collaboration and agricultural opportunities.

Food & Nutrition

NourishNC Inc

Provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition

Vermilion County Child Advocacy Center

Perform forensic interviews on minor children in response to calls from either the Department of Children and Family Services or law enforcement, regarding potential abuse of the child. The Center works as an advocate for the child with…

Crime & Legal

Hawthorn Heights Wnc Inc

Providing a safe, nurturing environment for youth in need

Crime & Legal

U Care Inc

To provide direct services and emergency shelter to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in sampson county, north carolina

Community Improvement

Uniting Partners for Women and Children

UP provides day shelter, resources, emotional support and community connections to women and children experiencing homelessness to address the barriers to homelessness.

Human Services

Mountainlands Community

To provide medical, mental health, dental care, and affordable medicine to the medically underserved population.

Health

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

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

14/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$587,149Crime & Legal$88,285Health$60,000Food & Nutrition$49,700Human Services$35,000Environment$15,000

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.

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.

Nantahala Health FoundationNC35.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nantahala Health Foundation · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Region a Partnership for Children · Evergreen Foundation · The Golden LEAF Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Impact Health

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 organisation Great Smokies Health 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Center for Domestic Peace Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 459.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 811121023 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Center for Domestic Peace Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Great Smokies Health Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Great Smokies Health Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Great Smokies Health Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Great Smokies Health Foundation?

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Great Smokies Health Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Great Smokies Health Foundation?

More from the funding graph