· Private foundation
Hunter Hometown Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Working Wheels Inc | $20,000 |
| SAHC | $15,000 |
| Brevard Music Center | $13,000 |
| Open Doors Asheville | $13,000 |
| Free Rein Horse Center | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Hope Coalition | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Safelight | $5,500 |
| Open Doors Asheville | $5,500 |
| Sparkpoint | $5,500 |
| HCEF | $5,500 |
| YMCA | $5,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 34 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCConserving Carolina4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +234%
- BRBlue Ridge Humane Society Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $53k · revenue +57%
- HCHope Coalition Corp2× · 2023–2024 · $31k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Brevardone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FSFOUR SEASONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
Asheville GreenWorks inspires, equips and mobilizes communities to create an equitable climate-resilient future.
As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…
Our main program is providing vet care to animals dropped at or rescued from the local animal shelter. This is the only service we provide and where our expenses go. We spay/neuter animals adopted from the shelter and provide vet care to…
WNC Communities empowers the people of Western North Carolina to cultivate the vitality and prosperity of mountain communities through collaboration and agricultural opportunities. This mission is accomplished through a program of work…
The mission of the Balsam Mountain Trust is the stewardship of the natural and cultural resources on Balsam Mountain Preserve and the southern Blue Ridge Mountain region, achieved through effective land management practices, scientific…
The Friends is a conservation organization that inspires a passion to know more, care more, and do more for the wildlife of the Southern Appalachians. We advance the critical work of the Nature Center through fundraising, membership,…
Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…
Since 1876, the Appalachian Mountain Club has promoted the protection, enjoyment, and understanding of the mountains, forests, waters, and trails of the Appalachian region. We are the nation's oldest outdoor recreation and conservation…
Performing activities pursuant to the maintenance and preservation of natural areas for the benefit of the public
The Humane Society Hardy County strives reduce feral animal populations while enhancing the health of our communities and providing for those animals that may be adopted, a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment.
The mission of Carolina Basset Hound Rescue is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome unwanted basset hounds in North Carolina and South Carolina.
To initiate actions that will improve economic conditions, enhance and/or preserve natural resources and balance land and water management activities in a widely divergent geographic area of North Carolina.
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
- Who funds Blue Ridge Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Hope Coalition Corp ↗
- Who funds Charlies Angels Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds W4H ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds Organic Growers School Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds SAFELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated ↗
- Who funds KEY LEARNING CENTER ↗
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 · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · Pisgah Health Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Fletcher Hospital Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hunter Hometown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hunter Hometown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Hunter Hometown Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Hunter Hometown Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
Play a game based on Hunter Hometown’s filings →