· Public charity
Mountain Findings Inc
Supports local community non-profits.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $396,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $436,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLANDS EMERGENCY COUNCIL | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,000 |
| HIGHLAND CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| THE FOOD PANTRY | $25,000 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF CASHERS | $22,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF HIGHLANDS | $20,000 |
| CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| BLUERIDGE FREE DENTAL CLINIC | $20,000 |
| DONATION UNDER 5000 | $15,300 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC | $15,000 |
| MAGNOLIA MISSION | $13,000 |
| SCALY MOUNTAIN FIRE DEPT | $13,000 |
| CARPE DIEM FARM | $12,000 |
| AHEC -HIGHLANDS SCHOOL | $12,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- HEHIGHLANDS EMERGENCY COUNCIL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +176% · 29% of their budget
- LCLiteracy Council of Highlands Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +37%
- CCCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC5× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- DDONATIONSone grant, 2022 · $390k
- OOTHERSone grant, 2019 · $76k
- LTLESS THE 5000one grant, 2021 · $43k
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.
The Counseling Center strives to strengthen families and individuals by providing access to quality mental health services regardless of financial ability.
To preserve and protect the history of highland county including all pertinant events, activities, and persons involved in the forming of the county and its founders history. to increase public awareness of the towns history and how it…
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. The Foundation searches…
The vision of the foundation is to provide for need avery county residents and animals by supporting local public chartities and other private foundations
Founded in 1969; highland county humane society's mission is to provide a temporary home and treatment for adoptable cats and dogs, return lost animals to their owners when possible, place them in suitable homes, increase awareness of the…
To provide high quality venues and performing arts for the Highlands - Cashiers community.
Our mission is to produce festivals and events that showcases,inspires and supports western north carolina's rich culinary, visual and performing arts community and to contribute financally to organizations or persons that directly benefit…
Provide housing for low income individuals
The Highlands Historical Society formed to preserve, restore and interpret the historic mansion and grounds from 1794 to the present.
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…
Rescue, spay, and neuter animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cashiers Highlands Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Magnolia Mission Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 38 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 HIGHLANDS EMERGENCY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Highlands Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hospice House Foundation of WNC Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA MISSION CO ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS ↗
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 · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The H Foundation · The Bell Family Foundation · The Woodcrest Foundation · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · Wantoot Foundation Inc · The Dunlap-Cogswell Foundation · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Farmer Lee Foundation Inc · The Britton Foundation · The Klamon Family Foundation 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 Findings 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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