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Pisgah Health Foundation

To empower community connections for wellbeing.

$215k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$192k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 76
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Pisgah Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’23
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$192k13%
FY202313$661k15%
FY202154$738k59%
FY202076$5.0M99%
FY20193$2.1M67%
FY20173$547kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.5MFood & Nutrition$1.5MHuman Services$1.5MHousing & Shelter$872kEducation$569kEnvironment$469kArts & Culture$141kYouth Development$125kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 114 grantees
All grantees of Pisgah Health Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Anc Transylvania Community Hospital Inc$2,372,10427%
Western Carolina Community Action Inc$365,84221%
Manna Food Bank Inc$353,49921%
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project$259,590115%
Conserving Carolina$240,00014%
Community Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc$240,000511%
MountainCare Inc$224,00410%
Blue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation Inc$180,000112%
Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc$169,912232%
Blue Ridge Community Health Services Inc$168,30011%
Each Initiative Inc$156,500155%
The Housing Assistance Corporation$152,00053%
Transylvania Christian Ministry Inc$148,75044%
The Haven of Transylvania County$134,500131%
Resources for Resilience$127,34015%
Crossnore Communities for Children$126,00010%
Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc$116,50010%
Sustainable Health For All$112,500160%
Smart Start of Transylvania County$106,00028%
Brevard Music Center Incorporated$101,18021%
Land of Sky Regional Council$100,7001n/a
Transylvania Habitat for Humanity Inc$94,08124%
Southwestern Child Development Commission Inc$86,05211%
Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness Inc$85,18918%
Mountain Projects Inc$85,00040%
Boys and Girls Club of Brevard Transylvania County Inc$84,76225%
Haywood Christian Ministry Inc$83,65028%
Meridian Behavioral Health Services Inc$82,50011%
Beacon of Hope Services Inc$82,50037%
Hospice of Yancey County Inc$82,00012%
The Community Kitchen Inc$79,500232%
St Gerard House$76,00013%
Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc$75,00016%
Muddy Sneakers Inc$75,00018%
Henderson County Free Medical Clinic Inc$75,0001n/a
Meals on Wheels of Brevard Inc$74,266426%
Beloved Asheville$72,97016%
First Contact$72,548118%
Haywood County$71,3602n/a
My Sister's Place of Madison Inc$69,000121%
Only Hope Wnc$65,000234%
Haywood Street Congregation$64,8802n/a
Pisgah Legal Services$61,00011%
Safelight Inc$60,00013%
Transylvania Farmers Market$60,0002n/a
Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity$55,00031%
Step Western North Carolina$53,5002n/a
Neighbors in Ministry Inc$53,450211%
Young Men's Christian Association of Western North Carolina$45,00610%
Transylvania County Public Schools$45,0001n/a
Mountain Roots Inc$43,300228%
John Scarlett Memorial Fund$40,0001n/a
MemoryCare Inc$40,00011%
Haywood Pathways Center Inc$37,00016%
Henderson County Education Foundation Inc$35,00018%
Anchor Baptist Church$35,0002n/a
True Ridge$32,50025%
Sixth Avenue Psychiatric Rehabilitation Partners Inc$30,00013%
Inheritance of Hope Inc$30,00011%
Creating a Family$30,00018%
Family Place of Transylvania County$29,00018%
Fostering Hopes Inc$25,000117%
Bounty & Soul$25,00011%
Madison County Education Foundation Incorporated$25,0001n/a
Project Dignity of Western North Carolina Inc$25,0001n/a
Wnc Bridge Foundation$25,00010%
Brevard Academy Inc$25,00011%
Interfaith Assistance Ministry Inc$25,00030%
Southern Highlands Reserve Inc$22,25016%
Irene Wortham Center Inc$20,80011%
Eliada Homes Inc$20,22010%
Babies Need Bottoms Inc$20,00012%
Mills River Life Enrichment Center Inc$20,000217%
Special Olympics North Carolina Inc$20,00011%
Transylvania County Schools Educational Foundation Inc$20,00025%
Bound for Glory Inc$20,000135%
Mountain Aging Partners Inc$19,00011%
HIGHTS Inc$17,88711%
Community Action Opportunities$17,00010%
Brevard College Corporation$16,48810%
Hope Center of Hendersonville$16,10013%
Henderson County United Way Inc$15,00011%
Calvary Baptist Church$15,0002n/a
Transylvania Youth Soccer Association Inc$13,00019%
Big BrothersBig Sisters of WNC Inc$12,47011%
Henderson County Young Leaders Program Inc$10,00014%
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc$10,00010%
The Bread of Life Inc$10,00013%
Blue Ridge Organizing Project Inc$10,0001n/a
Bountiful Cities Project$10,00012%
The Saluda Pop-Up Pantry$10,0001n/a
My Fathers Storehouse the Storehouse$10,00011%
All Souls Counseling Center$10,00012%
Meals on Wheels of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc$10,00011%
Maggie Valley United Methodist Church$10,0001n/a
Gods Way Fellowship$10,0002n/a
The Salvation Army$10,0001n/a
Hendersonville Rescue Mission$10,00011%
Lord S Harvest for the Hungry Inc$10,00015%
Children FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County Inc$10,00011%
Asheville-Buncombe Community Christian Ministry Inc$10,0001n/a
Loving Food Resources Inc$10,00011%
Eblen Charities Inc$10,00010%
Tryon Seventh-Day Adventist Church$10,0001n/a
Asheville-Buncombe Community Land Trust$10,00012%
Food Connection Inc$9,98411%
Mission Hospital Inc$9,00010%
Free Community Meal$8,0001n/a
Sanctity of Life of Transylvania County$7,50015%
Pigeon Community Development Center$7,00014%
Green River Preserve$7,00011%
Food for Fairview Incorporated$6,00015%
Leicester Baptist Church$6,0001n/a
Medical Loan Closet of Henderson County Inc$5,00015%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($51k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Pisgah Health Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 93 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnc Transylvania Community Hospital Inc: $2,372,104 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetWestern Carolina Community Action Inc: $365,842 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetManna Food Bank Inc: $353,499 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: $259,590 over 1y, 15% of budgetConserving Carolina: $240,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCommunity Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc: $240,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetMountainCare Inc: $224,004 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $180,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetToe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc: $169,912 over 2y, 32% of budgetBlue Ridge Community Health Services Inc: $168,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEach Initiative Inc: $156,500 over 1y, 55% of budgetThe Housing Assistance Corporation: $152,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTransylvania Christian Ministry Inc: $148,750 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetThe Haven of Transylvania County: $134,500 over 1y, 31% of budgetResources for Resilience: $127,340 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCrossnore Communities for Children: $126,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMountain Area Health Education Center Inc: $116,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Health For All: $112,500 over 1y, 60% of budgetSmart Start of Transylvania County: $106,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetBrevard Music Center Incorporated: $101,180 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTransylvania Habitat for Humanity Inc: $94,081 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSouthwestern Child Development Commission Inc: $86,052 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness Inc: $85,189 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetMountain Projects Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brevard Transylvania County Inc: $84,762 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetHaywood Christian Ministry Inc: $83,650 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetMeridian Behavioral Health Services Inc: $82,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBeacon of Hope Services Inc: $82,500 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetHospice of Yancey County Inc: $82,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Community Kitchen Inc: $79,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetSt Gerard House: $76,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetChildren & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMuddy Sneakers Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Brevard Inc: $74,266 over 4y, 26% of budgetBeloved Asheville: $72,970 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFirst Contact: $72,548 over 1y, 18% of budgetMy Sister's Place of Madison Inc: $69,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetOnly Hope Wnc: $65,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetPisgah Legal Services: $61,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSafelight Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNeighbors in Ministry Inc: $53,450 over 2y, 11% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Western North Carolina: $45,006 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMountain Roots Inc: $43,300 over 2y, 28% of budgetMemoryCare Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHaywood Pathways Center Inc: $37,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHenderson County Education Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTrue Ridge: $32,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 93.

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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.

Dogwood Health TrustNC144.4× affinity75 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 · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Manna Food Bank Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Impact Health · Lake Toxaway Charities · Henderson County United Way Inc · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Pisgah Health Foundation

How much does Pisgah Health Foundation give?
Pisgah Health Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $191,732, out of $215,232 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pisgah Health Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (38%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Pisgah Health Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Anc Transylvania Community Hospital Inc ($2.4M), Western Carolina Community Action Inc ($366k), Manna Food Bank Inc ($353k).
Does Pisgah Health Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pisgah Health Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dogwood Health Trust, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Wnc Bridge Foundation.
Where is Pisgah Health Foundation based?
Pisgah Health Foundation is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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