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High Country United Way
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $173,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $217,206 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,706 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 $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC | $20,000 |
| OASIS INC | $20,000 |
| WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $17,500 |
| BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMI | $15,000 |
| PARENT TO PARENT FAMILY SUPPORT NET | $13,000 |
| MEDITATION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE | $12,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NC | $10,000 |
| MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORS FEEDING NEIGHBORS FOOD MI | $10,000 |
| WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS COUNCIL OF WATAUGA CO | $8,000 |
| THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION | $8,000 |
| WATAUGA COUNTY HABITAT | $7,500 |
| AVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,500 |
| APPALACHIAN SENIOR COMPANION PROGRA | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +28% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WCWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +50%
- HHHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA4× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +33%
- MAMountain Alliance Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- HHHOSPITALITY HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $17k
- AAAVERY ASSOCIATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CITIZENSone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +7%
- COCounty of Wataugaone grant, 2021 · $19
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.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
To assist the needs of individuals, help them navigate past obstacles that prevent them from getting out of the cycle of homelessness and poverty, and assist them with achieving independent living.
Provide food & shelter for the homeless, offer support to those that desire to develop or enhance their life goals and assist others in the community with financial assistance for emergency household utility needs.
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with gods people in need by building houses, so that there are decent homes in decent communities in whigh gods people…
Volunteer Avery County finds resources to aid families and individuals that do not qualify for public assistance and fall through the cracks.
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and with people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building and renovating houses so they are decent houses in decent communities in…
To develop affordable housing for low-income and homeless persons and families in horry and georgetown counties.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
Provide temporary shelter and assistance to individuals and familes that are homeless in western north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southmountain Children and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Karis Home for Women. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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 OPPOSING ABUSE WITH SERVICE INFORMATION & SHELTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Mountain Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds The Western Youth Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIATION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL WATAUGA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF WATAUGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS FEEDING NEIGHBORS FOOD MI ↗
- Who funds FARM CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COUNTY SHEPHERDS STAFF ↗
- Who funds AVERY ASSOCIATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHMOUNTAIN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KARIS HOME FOR WOMEN ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The High Country Charitable Foundation · Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc · Amy Wellness Foundation · Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Helen M Clabough Charitable 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 High Country United Way 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.