· Public charity
Mountain Findings Inc
Supports local community non-profits.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| THE FOOD PANTRY | $25,000 |
| HIGHLAND CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF CASHERS | $22,000 |
| CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF HIGHLANDS | $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 |
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 38 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mountain Findings Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mountain Findings Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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