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Nantahala Health Foundation

Improving health and well-being for those living in westernmost North Carolina.

$441k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$1.2MEducation$731kPublic Safety & Disaster$408kHousing & Shelter$325kFood & Nutrition$283kHuman Services$263kYouth Development$260kRecreation & Sports$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Swain County Schools$85,000
Western Carolina Pacesetters$65,000
One Dozen Who Care$45,000
HIGHTS$36,000
Graham County Schools$16,000
Hawthorne Heights$13,184
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians$12,736
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project$12,500
Four Square Community Action$12,500
Highlands Emergency Council$12,500
Vecinos$12,500
Cherokee County Food Bank Inc$12,500
Child Medical Collaborative$12,500
Cherokee Clay Food Alliance$12,500
Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness$12,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%American Red Cross: $10k → 12%Grace Extended Ministries Inc: $32k → 15%Four Square Community Action: $38k → 15%Four Square Community Action: $13k → 15%Full Spectrum Farms INC: $9k → 18%Reach of Cherokee County: $6k → 15%AWAKE Children's Advocacy Center: $50k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 28 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
39

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+38%

Still filing today

61%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • RE
    RESOURCES EDUCATION ASST COUNSELING AND HOUSING OF MACON COUNTY INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +47%
  • MP
    MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $145k · revenue +86%
  • VECINOS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • RO
    ROYAL ORDER OF JESTERS
    one grant, 2019 · $225k · revenue -60%
  • SC
    Southwestern Community College Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $107k · revenue +206% · 30% of their budget
  • AW
    Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $58k · revenue +66%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
3
Counseling Center of Highlands

The Counseling Center strives to strengthen families and individuals by providing access to quality mental health services regardless of financial ability.

Health
4
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
5
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
6
Community Health Network of Wnc

A collaborative network that increases access and improves health outcomes for safety net populations in western north carolina

Health
7
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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8
North Carolina Community Housing & Consulting Inc

The main operation is to establish a well grounded community for very low to moderate individuals

Housing & Shelter
9
Henderson County Free Medical Clinic Inc

The free clinics (tfc) enhances the healthcare system in henderson county and neighboring communities to ensure the accessibility of quality healthcare for uninsured, low-income clients. tfc works with volunteers and partnering healthcare…

Health
10
Wnc Food Systems Coalition Inc

To support a community-led food system in WNC that is regenerative, resilient, and equitable by strengthening regional connection and cultivating cross-sector collaboration.

Food & Nutrition
11
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
12
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wnc Bridge Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Royal Order of Jesters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr13%14%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr14%35%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr22%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr13%7%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr14%33%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr22%22%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/79
the rest of the field
9%
221/2,420

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Swain County Recreation Dept — $280,000 · OtherSwain County Recreation DeptCLAY COUNTY NC EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES — $237,000 · OtherCLAY COUNTY NC EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICESROYAL ORDER OF JESTERS — $225,000 · OtherROYAL ORDER OF JESTERSHINTON RURAL LIFE CENTER INC — $156,250 · OtherHINTON RURAL LIFE CENTER INCMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC — $145,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INCMACON COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH — $92,500 · OtherMacon Program for Progress — $87,500 · OtherSwain County Schools — $85,000 · Other+41 more — $1,130,999 · Other+41 moreRESOURCES EDUCATION ASST COUNSELING AND HOUSING OF MACON COUNTY INC — $150,300 · HealthRESOURCES EDUCATI…VECINOS INC — $144,500 · HealthVECINOS INCRESTORATION HOUSE WNC — $77,500 · HealthRESTORATION HOUSE…COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN INC — $70,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY CARE CL…CHEROKEE INDIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthCHEROKEE INDIAN H…BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC — $35,000 · HealthBLUE RIDGE MOUNTA…Kids Interdisciplinary Services Inc — $27,500 · Health+4 more — $48,000 · Health+4 moreHospice House Foundation of WNC Inc — $72,500 · Human ServicesAdults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc — $58,000 · Human ServicesFOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION — $50,000 · Human ServicesGRACE EXTENDED MINISTRIES INC — $32,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesFull Spectrum Farms Inc — $9,246 · Human Services+1 more — $6,200 · Human ServicesSouthwestern Community College Foundation Inc — $107,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $62,106 · EducationCHEROKEE CLAY FOOD ALLIANCE — $12,500 · EducationSummit Charter School — $10,000 · EducationHIGHTS Inc — $111,500 · EnvironmentAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project — $22,500 · EnvironmentSOUTHWESTERN N CAROLINA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEV COUNCIL INC — $7,800 · EnvironmentWESTERN CAROLINA PACESETTERS INC — $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLAY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionCHEROKEE COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $12,500 · Food & NutritionThe Community Table Inc — $12,500 · Food & NutritionThe Giving Spoon Inc — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,439,249Health$602,800Human Services$237,946Education$191,606Environment$141,800Youth Development$115,000Food & Nutrition$115,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRESOURCES EDUCATION ASST COUNSELING AND HOUSING OF MACON COUNTY INC — $150,300 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC — $145,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVECINOS INC — $144,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN CAROLINA PACESETTERS INC — $115,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHIGHTS Inc — $111,500 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetSouthwestern Community College Foundation Inc — $107,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetRESTORATION HOUSE WNC — $77,500 over 3y, 24% of budgetHospice House Foundation of WNC Inc — $72,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF FRANKLIN INC — $70,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $62,106 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAdults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc — $58,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetFOUR SQUARE COMMUNITY ACTION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHEROKEE INDIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetVETERAN SMILES FOUNDATION — $48,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetOne Dozen Who Care Inc — $45,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetHERE in Jackson County Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY — $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetGRACE EXTENDED MINISTRIES INC — $32,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetROLLING START NC INC — $31,517 over 2y, 20% of budgetBLUE RIDGE BARTRAM TRAIL CONSERVANCY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetKids Interdisciplinary Services Inc — $27,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS — $26,875 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetWNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLANDS ROTARY CLUB CHARITIES INC — $22,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project — $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMURPHY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHawthorn Heights WNC Inc — $13,184 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHEROKEE COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $12,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetSUNRISE COMMUNITY FOR RECOVERY AND WELLNESS INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChild Medical Collaborative Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Community Table Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHIGHLANDS EMERGENCY COUNCIL INC — $12,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMACON COUNTY CARE NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJORDAN PEER RECOVERY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSummit Charter School — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Giving Spoon Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetFull Spectrum Farms Inc — $9,246 over 1y, 12% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $8,203 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTECOAH VALLEY ARTS CRAFTS & EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC — $8,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN N CAROLINA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEV COUNCIL INC — $7,800 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetState of Franklin Health Council — $7,300 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREACH OF CLAY COUNTY — $6,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

Dogwood Health TrustThe Community Foundat…Highlands Cashiers He…Wnc Bridge FoundationManna Food Bank IncNorth Carolina Commun…Great Smokies Health …Evergreen FoundationFoundation for the Ca…Impact HealthPisgah Health Foundat…The Cannon Foundation…
Dogwood Health TrustNC86.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Great Smokies Health Foundation · Evergreen Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Impact Health · Pisgah Health Foundation · The Cannon 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 Nantahala Health Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    19report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nantahala Health Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nantahala Health Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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