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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 FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$487k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$12MEducation$817kHuman Services$420kPublic Safety & Disaster$231kCommunity Improvement$211kYouth Development$173kCrime & Legal$173kEnvironment$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $573k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
  • $250k+2 grants · $749k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC$487,060
ADULTS WORKING AND ADVOCATING FOR KIDS EMPOWERMENT (AWAKE) INC$261,873
CASHIERS VALLEY PRESCHOOL INC$135,000
STAGE4HOPE$50,000
COUNTY OF JACKSON$50,000
COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN INC$45,000
CHILD MEDICAL COLLABORATIVE INC$40,000
VECINOS INC$40,000
WESTERN CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC$38,640
COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC$35,000
BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC$30,858
HIGHTS$30,000
SWAIN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES$30,000
INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER$25,000
BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC (BLUE RIDGE FREE DENTAL CLINIC)$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $521k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $10k → 12%FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $38k → 15%FIVE POINT CENTER INC: $5k → 15%FOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 15%GARDEN 58: $5k → 15%HOSPICE HOUSE FOUNDATION OF WNC INC: $31k → 12%SPECIAL LIBERTY PROJECT: $25k → 12%MAGNOLIA MISSION CO: $15k → 12%HIGHLAND COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $30k → 12%HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 12%Highlands Community Child Development Center: $10k → 12%ADULTS WORKING AND ADVOCATING FOR KIDS EMPOWERMENT (AWAKE) INC: $262k → 18%AWAKE Inc: $50k → 18%Adults Working And Advocating For Kids Empowerment (AWAKE) Inc: $25k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 41 repeat orgs$995k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
20

Total granted

$15M
$787k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+23%

Still filing today

73%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +100%
  • AW
    Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $337k · revenue +50% · 26% of their budget
  • VECINOS INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -3% · 39% of their budget
  • GR
    GLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $81k · revenue +123%
  • MM
    MURPHY MEDICAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

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.

1
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
2
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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3
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
4
High Country Behavioral Health

HCBH provides mental health and substance abuse counseling.

Health
5
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
6
Central Childrens Home of North Carolina Inc

To provide family-centered services to children and youth aged 8 to 21 who cannot remain at home due to dependency, neglect, or abuse by providing a wholesom atmosphere that is conducive to their emotional, social, spiritual and physical…

Health
7
Black Mountain Counseling Center in

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…

Health
8
Mountainlands Community Health Center

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

Health
9
North Carolina Community Housing & Consulting Inc

The main operation is to establish a well grounded community for very low to moderate individuals

Housing & Shelter
10
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.

Housing & Shelter
11
Grace Clinic of Yadkin Valley

Provide medical care to low income and uninsured adults.

Human Services
12
Appalachian Childrens Center Inc

Serve abused and/or neglected children in the Gilmer County area via counseling and other social services.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Projects Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bhm Regional Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 76 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
33/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANC HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS HOSPITAL INC: $7,945,499 · HealthANC HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS HOSPITAL INC+9 more: $1,050,750 · Health+9 moreBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $3,064,148 · OtherBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVI…+38 more: $1,591,748 · Other+38 moreSummit Charter School: $199,401 · EducationCASHIERS VALLEY PRESCHOOLINC: $145,000 · EducationBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $138,676 · EducationBLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $125,110 · EducationCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC: $85,000 · EducationADVANCE HIGHLANDS EDUCATION COMMITTEE INC: $74,532 · EducationBHM REGIONAL LIBRARY: $55,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $50,000 · Education+3 more: $58,000 · EducationAdults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc: $336,873 · Human ServicesHospice House Foundation of WNC Inc: $56,420 · Human ServicesHighlands Community Child Development Center: $50,000 · Human ServicesFOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION: $42,500 · Human ServicesSpecial Liberty Project Inc: $25,000 · Human Services+5 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesChild Medical Collaborative Inc: $180,000 · Crime & LegalPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $162,000 · Crime & LegalHawthorn Heights WNC Inc: $30,963 · Crime & LegalHIGHTS Inc: $183,000 · EnvironmentGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $81,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMountain Alliance and Mission Inc: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$8,996,249Other$4,655,896Education$930,719Human Services$560,793Crime & Legal$372,963Environment$183,000Public Safety & Disaster$91,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANC HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS HOSPITAL INC: $7,945,499 over 2y, 22% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $3,064,148 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetAdults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc: $336,873 over 3y, 26% of budgetCounseling Center of Highlands: $250,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetVECINOS INC: $210,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSummit Charter School: $199,401 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetHIGHTS Inc: $183,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetChild Medical Collaborative Inc: $180,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $162,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC: $160,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCASHIERS VALLEY PRESCHOOLINC: $145,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $138,676 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $125,110 over 1y, 39% of budgetMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC: $115,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRESTORATION HOUSE WNC: $95,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN CHILD DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC: $85,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN INC: $85,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS: $76,875 over 3y, 14% of budgetWestern Carolina Medical Society Foundation Inc: $76,640 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMURPHY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCE HIGHLANDS EDUCATION COMMITTEE INC: $74,532 over 1y, 51% of budgetRESOURCES EDUCATION ASST COUNSELING AND HOUSING OF MACON COUNTY INC: $74,110 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHospice House Foundation of WNC Inc: $56,420 over 2y, 10% of budgetBHM REGIONAL LIBRARY: $55,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHighlands Community Child Development Center: $50,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig BrothersBig Sisters of WNC Inc: $45,858 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHIGHLANDS EMERGENCY COUNCIL INC: $45,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetFOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION: $42,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMACON PROGRAM FOR PROGRESS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHawthorn Heights WNC Inc: $30,963 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetThe Hampton School: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHospice of Henderson County Inc: $27,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMACON COUNTY CARE NETWORK: $27,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSpecial Liberty Project Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetKids Interdisciplinary Services Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHIGHLANDS ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES INC: $22,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetThe Community Table Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWestern North Carolina AIDS Project Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTogether We Can Do Great Things Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMAGNOLIA MISSION CO: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMountain Alliance and Mission Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN CAROLINA PACESETTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFIVE POINT CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetState of Franklin Health Council: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Nantahala Health Foun…Dogwood Health TrustWnc Bridge FoundationBrighton Foundation T…North Carolina Commun…Great Smokies Health …Evergreen FoundationManna Food Bank IncFlorence Mauboules Ch…Foundation for the Ca…Impact Health
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC83.7× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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