· Public charity
Great Smokies Health Foundation
Improve healthcare in Jackson, Swain, Graham and Macon counties in North Carolina.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $436,943 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $498,214 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,271 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Graham Co Board of Education | $90,000 |
| Jackson County Board of Education | $90,000 |
| Swain County 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 |
| Blue Ridge Free Dental Clinic | $15,000 |
| HIGHTS Inc | $15,000 |
| Jackson County DSS | $13,100 |
| Mountain Projects | $10,000 |
| AWAKE Children's Advocacy Center | $10,000 |
| Jackson Co Public Schools | $10,000 |
| Center for Domestic Peace Inc | $7,500 |
| Child Medical Collaborative Inc | $7,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against +34% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- CFCenter for Domestic Peace Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue ×21
- TCThe Community Table Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +93%
- BRBLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- FPFIVE POINT CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +256%
- SCSwain County Recreation Deptone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TGThe Giving Spoon Incone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +51%
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.
To create a medical home for uninsured families and individuals in the communities that we serve.
The Counseling Center strives to strengthen families and individuals by providing access to quality mental health services regardless of financial ability.
Serve abused and/or neglected children in the Gilmer County area via counseling and other social services.
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…
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…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives
Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC)provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as medication assistance, to uninsured, working adult residents of Middle Georgia. All patients live at or below 200% of federal poverty level.
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…
To provide direct services and emergency shelter to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in sampson county, north carolina
Provide medical care to low income and uninsured adults.
Provide affordable counseling services to those in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Projects Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westbridge Vocational Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 Center for Domestic Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds The Community Table Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VECINOS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Uncomplicated Kitchen ↗
- Who funds Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc ↗
- Who funds FIVE POINT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHTS Inc ↗
- Who funds Child Medical Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds The Giving Spoon Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN CHILD DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTBRIDGE VOCATIONAL 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 Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Nantahala Health Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Evergreen Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Region a Partnership for Children
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 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.
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.