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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.

$423k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$108k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$243kEducation$129kPublic Safety & Disaster$115kHuman Services$114kHealth$49kEmployment$35kCrime & Legal$32kHousing & Shelter$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $375,925, the rows itemized in this filing. The $422,836 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $46,911 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $108k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$506k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRACTOR$108,000
Dig-In$36,060
Mountain Strong 828$25,000
THRIVE Appalachia$20,000
Toe River Crafts$20,000
Reconciliation House$19,000
Rise Disaster Relief$15,000
Camp Spring Creek$15,000
Pensacola Loving Arms$15,000
Yancey County Schools - FBLA$12,000
High Country Caregivers$10,000
Pisgah Legal Services$10,000
Feed a Child$10,000
Little Hands Learning Center$10,000
Yancey County Humane Society$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%High Country Caregivers: $10k → 21%High Country Caregivers: $7k → 21%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$600k · 15 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$600k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+203%

Still filing today

73%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationEmploymentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • DI
    Dig In Yancey Community Garden
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +15%
  • SR
    Southern Reconciliation Ministries Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $66k · revenue +238%
  • TA
    THRIVE APPALACHIA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $47k · revenue +630%

Funded once

  • MC
    Mayland Community College
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • YC
    Yancey CountyBurnsville Chamber of Commercegraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +203%
  • YC
    YANCEY COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
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
Ashe County Recovery and Restoration

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
3
Yancey Long Term Recovery Group

Born out of our community's response to Hurricane Helene, the Yancey LTRG works to meet disaster-related unmet needs, strengthen community connections, and build long-term emergency preparedness and resilience for Yancey County-today and…

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Day One Relief

Day One Relief rapidly responds to the critical needs of marginalized communities and people, building resilient, long-term solutions.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Appalachian Relief Coordination

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Appalachian Disaster Coalition
Public Safety & Disaster
7
Restoring Hope Center Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Neighborhood Table Inc

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

Human Services
9
Elk River Helping Hands

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…

Human Services
10
Southern Waters Rescue and Relief Inc

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Christian Food Bank of Salemburg

Provide groceries and related items to those in need with no cost to recipient

Food & Nutrition
12
Mountain Alliance and Mission Inc

Restore, Rebuild, and Revive Western NC

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners Aligned Toward Health; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southern Reconciliation Ministries Inc: $65,500 · OtherSouthern Reconciliation Ministries IncEast Yancey Water and Sewer District: $38,500 · OtherEast Yancey Water and Sewer DistrictTOE RIVER CRAFTS: $20,000 · OtherTOE RIVER CRAFTSMayland Community College: $18,000 · OtherMayland Community CollegePENSACOLA LOVING ARMS: $15,000 · OtherYancey CountyBurnsville Chamber of Commerce: $15,000 · OtherMY NEIGHBORS: $15,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · OtherPensacola United Methodist Ministries: $13,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $12,800 · OtherYANCEY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $12,000 · OtherHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $17,000 · OtherHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION+6 more: $44,181 · Other+6 moreToe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc: $140,000 · Food & NutritionToe River Aggregation Center Trainin…Dig In Yancey Community Garden: $74,560 · Food & NutritionDig In Yancey Community GardenFEED-A-CHILD WNC INC: $28,500 · Food & NutritionFEED-A-CHILD WNC INCMOUNTAIN STRONG - YANCEY & MITCHELL COUNTY RELIEF TEAM: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMOUNTAIN …Rise Disaster Relief and Recovery Inc: $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterRise Disa…THRIVE APPALACHIA: $47,000 · EmploymentCAMP SPRING CREEK INC: $30,000 · EducationMayland Community College Foundation Inc: $6,000 · EducationPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $32,000 · Crime & LegalPartners Aligned Toward Health: $21,485 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION: $5,865 · Health
Other$300,481Food & Nutrition$243,060Public Safety & Disaster$65,000Employment$47,000Education$36,000Crime & Legal$32,000Health$27,350

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetToe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc: $140,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetDig In Yancey Community Garden: $74,560 over 3y, 13% of budgetSouthern Reconciliation Ministries Inc: $65,500 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetMOUNTAIN STRONG - YANCEY & MITCHELL COUNTY RELIEF TEAM: $50,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTHRIVE APPALACHIA: $47,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SPRING CREEK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFEED-A-CHILD WNC INC: $28,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetPartners Aligned Toward Health: $21,485 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRise Disaster Relief and Recovery Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $12,800 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetYancey County Humane Society: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMayland Community College Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH INNOVATION: $5,865 over 1y, 0.7% 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…Amy Wellness Foundati…Dogwood Health TrustWnc Bridge FoundationFoundation for the Ca…The Austin Foundation…The Golden Leaf IncThe Conservation Fund…The Cannon Foundation…Raymond James Charita…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC37.1× affinity16 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 · 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

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 Mountain Air Community Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mountain Air Community Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mountain Air Community Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mountain Air Community Fund Inc 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.

    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 29 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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