North Carolina · Public charity
Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc
The highlands cashiers health foundation exists to improve the health and wellbeing of all peoples in western north carolina, with a particular emphasis on macon, jackson, swain, graham, clay and cherokee counties.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $487,060
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $1.6M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $1.3M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $1.3M | 46% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $954k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $1.3M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $5.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anc Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Inc | $7,945,499 | 2 | 22% |
| Blue Ridge Community Health Services Inc | $3,064,148 | 5 | 2% |
| Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc | $336,873 | 3 | 26% |
| Counseling Center of Highlands | $250,000 | 2 | 55% |
| Vecinos Inc | $210,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Summit Charter School | $199,401 | 5 | 4% |
| HIGHTS Inc | $183,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Child Medical Collaborative Inc | $180,000 | 3 | 36% |
| Pisgah Legal Services | $162,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 11% |
Show all 75 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Nantahala Health Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · North Carolina Community Foundation · Great Smokies Health Foundation · Evergreen Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · Impact Health
How this is measured
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About Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc
- How much does Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc give?
- Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc reported 45 grants totaling $1,635,519 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (84%), Education (6%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Anc Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Inc ($7.9M), Blue Ridge Community Health Services Inc ($3.1M), Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc ($337k).
- Does Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Nantahala Health Foundation, Dogwood Health Trust.
- Where is Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc based?
- Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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