North Carolina · Public charity
Nantahala Health Foundation
Improving health and well-being for those living in westernmost North Carolina.
- $420k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 34
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Nantahala Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $420k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $452k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $360k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $828k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $689k | 68% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swain County Recreation Dept | $288,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Clay County Nc Emergency Medical Services | $249,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Royal Order of Jesters | $225,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Graham County Schools | $170,346 | 4 | n/a |
| Hinton Rural Life Center Inc | $156,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Resources Education Asst Counseling and Housing of Macon County Inc | $150,300 | 3 | 7% |
| Mountain Projects Inc | $145,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Vecinos Inc | $144,500 | 5 | 0% |
| HIGHTS Inc | $121,500 | 4 | 9% |
| Western Carolina Pacesetters Inc | $115,000 | 2 | 14% |
Show all 89 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nantahala Health Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Nantahala Health Foundation
- How much does Nantahala Health Foundation give?
- Nantahala Health Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $419,616 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Nantahala Health Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Education (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
- Who are Nantahala Health Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Swain County Recreation Dept ($288k), Clay County Nc Emergency Medical Services ($250k), Royal Order of Jesters ($225k).
- Does Nantahala Health Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nantahala Health Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dogwood Health Trust, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc.
- Where is Nantahala Health Foundation based?
- Nantahala Health Foundation is based in NC.
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