· Public charity
Mountain Air Community Fund Inc
To be the philanthropic voice of Mountain Air by providing financial assistance to 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations that benefit the residents of Yancey County in the areas of health, education, family issues, the environment, econcomic development, and the arts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $375,925 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $422,836 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,911 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRACTOR | $108,000 |
| Dig-In | $36,060 |
| Mountain Strong 828 | $25,000 |
| Toe River Crafts | $20,000 |
| THRIVE Appalachia | $20,000 |
| Reconciliation House | $19,000 |
| Rise Disaster Relief | $15,000 |
| Pensacola Loving Arms | $15,000 |
| Camp Spring Creek | $15,000 |
| Yancey County Schools - FBLA | $12,000 |
| Yancey County Humane Society | $10,000 |
| Feed a Child | $10,000 |
| High Country Caregivers | $10,000 |
| Pisgah Legal Services | $10,000 |
| Little Hands Learning Center | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
- DIDig In Yancey Community Garden3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +15%
- SRSouthern Reconciliation Ministries Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $66k · revenue +22%
- TATHRIVE APPALACHIA3× · 2023–2025 · $47k · revenue +630%
Funded once
- MCMayland Community Collegeone grant, 2023 · $18k
- YCYancey CountyBurnsville Chamber of Commercegraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +203%
- YCYANCEY COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
Ashe County Recovery and Restoration was established in October 2024 in response to the devastation in Ashe County, nc that occured as a result of Hurricane Helene.
Food distribution to the needy
Day One Relief rapidly responds to the critical needs of marginalized communities and people, building resilient, long-term solutions.
Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…
Neighborhood Tables purpose is to support the community through peace-making and a sense of belonging through facilitating civil conversation artistic expression social interaction and education
Our organization is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes, especially to provide disaster relief, recovery assistance, and community support to individuals and families affected by hurricane Helene and other…
Elk River Helping Hands Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting in the aftermath of catastrophic events with needs of the people of the High Country of North Carolina, including but not limited to Avery and Watauga…
Our primary goal is to offer essential support to individuals and communities facing adversity. This includes distributing critical supplies promptly and assisting in rebuilding homes and communal infrastructure. Through our services we…
Cody Hamm Ministries is an evangelistic ministry traveling the United States spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. CHM also focuses on helping real-world needs by providing assistance in natural disasters feeding the poor and building…
Provide groceries and related items to those in need with no cost to recipient
Restore, Rebuild, and Revive Western NC
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners Aligned Toward Health and the most unlike its peers is Camp Spring Creek Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
16 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. 16 of the 29 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 Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc ↗
- Who funds Dig In Yancey Community Garden ↗
- Who funds Southern Reconciliation Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STRONG - YANCEY & MITCHELL COUNTY RELIEF TEAM ↗
- Who funds THRIVE APPALACHIA ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CAMP SPRING CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds FEED-A-CHILD WNC INC ↗
- Who funds Partners Aligned Toward Health ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rise Disaster Relief and Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds Yancey CountyBurnsville Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Yancey County Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Mayland Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION ↗
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 · Amy Wellness Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Austin Foundation Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Mountain Air Community Fund Inc 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.
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