· Public charity
Mountain Ways Inc
Sharing and preserving appalachian culture and heritage by giving back and loving our neighbor and to provide financial aid and support to those facing loss from natural disasters.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $3,920,746 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,513,617 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,592,871 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
- $10k–50k7 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC | $902,315 |
| FTDD FOUNDATION INC | $560,000 |
| BEYOND ALL BORDERS | $500,000 |
| HOLSTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $400,000 |
| THE HOPE HOUSE OF COCKE COUNTY | $297,500 |
| NOLACHUNCKY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION INC | $233,853 |
| UNICOI COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES | $215,078 |
| UNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS | $200,000 |
| THE ASHEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| AIDNET OF GREENE COUNTY INC | $100,000 |
| GOD'S WAREHOUSE | $75,000 |
| NEWPORT RESCUE SQUAD | $70,000 |
| SERENITY POINTE INC | $52,000 |
| GRASSY FORK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $45,000 |
| CENTERVIEW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $25,000 |
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, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% 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.
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.
Volunteer fire department
The department provides volunteer fire and EMS service to approximately 3800 residents (and those passing through on I-40) in East Roane County Tennessee.
Provides fire protection for all of Sevier County, Tennessee and more specifically, the Catons Chapel and Richardson Cove areas of unincorporated Sevier County, Tennessee.
Fire & rescue for the east howellsville township in robeson county, nc.
Providing hot meals and neccessities of life to any member of our community
Volunteer fire department
The purpose of the Buckingham County Vol. Fire Dept. is to provide fire protection to the citizens of Buckingham County and surrounding counties if needed. We also respond to automobile accidents as well as any other request for assistance.
Fire protection and safety and rescues services for the residents of Sullivan County Tennessee
Fire protectin and related emergency services for citizens of bedford county, tennessee
Volunteer fire department which services parts of knox and sevier counties in tennessee.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Central Charities Committee of Newport and Cocke County Incorporat and the most unlike its peers is Beyond All Borders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 22 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 APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST TENNESSEE DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND ALL BORDERS ↗
- Who funds Holston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COCKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNICOI COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST TENNESSEE HIGHLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Asheville Police Department Foundation ↗
- Who funds AIDNET OF GREENE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT EMERGENCY & RESCUE SQU ↗
- Who funds SERENITY POINTE INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSY FORK VOL FIRE DEP ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL CHARITIES COMMITTEE OF NEWPORT AND COCKE COUNTY INCORPORAT ↗
- Who funds PARROTTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
- Who funds DEL RIO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF NEWPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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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 Ways 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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