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Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc

We serve our mission to build a new economy by offering flexible loans and technical support to existing and startup businesses and organizations; helping businesses, nonprofits, public agencies and homeowners find much- needed energy savings; and by engaging in research, communications and advocacy for policy and narrative change.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$5.9MEnvironment$530kPhilanthropy$520kFood & Nutrition$473kCommunity Improvement$343kHousing & Shelter$254kHealth$68kHuman Services$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $973,146, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,009,655 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $36,509 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $509k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENTUCKY COALITION$400,000
APPALACIAN INVESTMENT CORP$220,000
HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES INC$134,096
APPALACHIAN VOICES$55,000
LAUREL COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN$50,000
MARTIN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$50,000
MARTIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$20,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCY$20,000
RURAL ACTION$19,000
LEARNING LANDSCAPES$5,050
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 (FY17–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Natural Capital Investment Fund Inc: $20k → 9%Heart and Hand House Inc: $12k → 15%Natural Capital Investment Fund Inc: $15k → 9%Heart and Hand House Inc: $6k → 15%Natural Capital Investment Fund Inc: $13k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCY: $20k → 27%Natural Capital Investment Fund Inc: $12k → 9%Natural Capital Investment Fund Inc: $11k → 9%Partner Community Capital Inc: $10k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

OR
OH
KY
WV
VA
TN
NC
DC
AL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 19 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +113% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
14

Total granted

$5.8M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%
+23%

Still filing today

89%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $345k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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

  • KC
    KENTUCKY COALITION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +56% · 34% of their budget
  • HO
    HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $169k · revenue +47%
  • AS
    APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    6× · 2017–2022 · $152k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • KC
    KENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -35% · 59% of their budget
  • VE
    Various entities receiving less than 5000 each
    one grant, 2017 · $179k
  • CO
    CITY OF MIDDLESBORO
    one grant, 2024 · $88k
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
The Center for Rural Development Inc

To provide economic development to southeastern kentucky.

Community Improvement
2
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project

To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.

Environment
3
Kentucky Association for Economic Development Inc

Our purpose is to educate, advocate and connect with our members on issues that are important to the economic development in the commonwealth of kentucky.

Community Improvement
4
American Dairy Association of Kentucky

Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.

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5
Backroads of Appalachia

Backroads of appalachia is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide new economic opportunities within the communities of eastern kentucky and southwest virginia.

Community Improvement
6
Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation Inc

To facilitate the economic growth and development of the southern kentucky region.

Community Improvement
7
Tri-County Economic Development Corporation

Build a world-class economy in northern kentucky through the expansion of existing businesses and the creation and attraction of high quality, primary industry employers.

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8
Red River Economic Development

Economic Development and Tourism Promotion in Eastern Kentucky

Community Improvement
9
Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation

To increase small business lending by providing appalachian member institutions that serve underserved people and communities with new sources of capital.

Philanthropy
10
Kentucky Resources Council Inc

Kentucky resources council (krc) is a public-interest environmental law and advocacy organization that works to protect and defend the people, communities, and natural resources of kentucky. krc uses legal and strategic advocacy to protect…

Environment
11
Kentucky Horticulture Council Inc

To promote and expand the horticultural enterprises in the state of kentucky, and to increase farmer profitability, improve infrastructure and provide technical assistance.

Food & Nutrition
12
Appalachian Citizens Law Center Inc

ACLC is a nonprofit law firm that engages in strategic litigation and policy work in the areas of mine safely and health, environmental protection, legacy costs of extractive industries on the people, land and economy of the Central…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ultimate Recycling Center Re Use Industries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 39 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENTUCKY COALITION INC: $4,305,652 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY COALITION INCKENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $1,484,010 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INCAPPALACHIAN INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $220,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN INV…Various entities receiving less than 5000 each: $178,931 · OtherVarious entitie…Various other: $138,960 · OtherVarious otherMARTIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $114,000 · OtherMARTIN COUNTY S…CITY OF MIDDLESBORO: $87,700 · OtherCITY OF MIDDLES…LESLIE COUNTY FISCAL COURT: $70,000 · OtherLESLIE COUNTY F…Martin County Health Department: $50,000 · OtherLAUREL COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC: $50,000 · OtherWest Virginia Food & Farm Coalition Inc: $47,250 · OtherKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC: $67,500 · OtherKENTUCKY VOICES…OFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC: $42,500 · Other+7 more: $83,769 · Other+7 moreAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $152,234 · Community ImprovementRURAL ACTION INC: $138,037 · Community ImprovementAPPALACHIAN CENTER FOR ECONOMIC NETWORKS INC: $128,844 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC: $126,925 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $519,594 · PhilanthropyHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC: $168,926 · Housing & ShelterCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $70,216 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $14,742 · Housing & ShelterAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $114,000 · EnvironmentTENNESSEE ADVANCED ENERGY BUSINESS COUNCIL: $30,700 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentSolar United Neighbors Inc: $11,500 · EnvironmentOHIO HILL COUNTRY HERITAGE ARE: $9,500 · Environment+2 more: $11,500 · EnvironmentPARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC: $79,550 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCY: $20,000 · Human ServicesHEART AND HAND HOUSE INC: $17,414 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP INC: $7,500 · Human Services
Public Benefit$5,789,662Other$1,150,610Community Improvement$546,040Philanthropy$519,594Housing & Shelter$253,884Environment$197,200Human Services$124,464

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $4,305,652 over 9y, 34% of budgetKENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $1,484,010 over 1y, 59% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $519,594 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAPPALACHIAN INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $220,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC: $168,926 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: $152,234 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetRURAL ACTION INC: $138,037 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CENTER FOR ECONOMIC NETWORKS INC: $128,844 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC: $126,925 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $114,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC: $79,550 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $70,216 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC: $67,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetWest Virginia Food & Farm Coalition Inc: $47,250 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetOFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC: $42,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $31,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE ADVANCED ENERGY BUSINESS COUNCIL: $30,700 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetKENTUCKY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $22,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILD WELFARE AGENCY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEART AND HAND HOUSE INC: $17,414 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $14,742 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolar United Neighbors Inc: $11,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEP BY STEP INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetULTIMATE RECYCLING CENTER RE USE INDUSTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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 Educational Found…Rockefeller Philanthr…Mary Reynolds Babcock…Foundation for Appala…Rockefeller Family Fu…Blue Grass Community …Appalachian VoicesBerea CollegeHonorable Order of Ke…Clif Family FoundationAppalachian Sustainab…Charles M and Mary D …
The Educational Foundation of AmericaMD25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Educational Foundation of America · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Appalachian Voices · Berea College · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Appalachian Sustainable Development · Charles M and Mary D Grant Fdn Xxxxx0004

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mountain Association for Community Economic Development 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 39 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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