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Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$418k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$505kHuman Services$480kFood & Nutrition$320kYouth Development$265kEnvironment$200kHealth$180kCrime & Legal$120kHousing & Shelter$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Warren Wilson College$85,000
Riverlink Inc$60,000
MAHEC$50,000
YMCA Of Western North Carolina$50,000
Kids On Point$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
Literacy Together$32,500
Mountain Child Advocacy Center$25,000
All Souls Counseling Center$15,000
The North Carolina Arboretum$15,000
Evergreen Community Charter School$5,000
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 (FY24–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%W4H Asheville: $90k → 12%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 19 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$2.0M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
0%

Still filing today

74%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MANNA FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +153%
  • KO
    KIDS ON POINT INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $265k · revenue +162%
  • WARREN WILSON COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • WA
    W4H ASHEVILLE
    one grant, 2024 · $90k · revenue 0%
  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $59k · revenue +51%
  • LL
    LAKE LOGAN CONFERENCE CENTER AND CAMP HENRY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -15%

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
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
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
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
4
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
5
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
6
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
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
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
9
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
10
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
11
Haywood Pathways Center Inc

Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.

Housing & Shelter
12
Catawba Lands Conservancy

As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Western North Carolina. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YMCA OF WNC — $165,000 · OtherYMCA OF WNCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA — $150,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH C…Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc — $120,000 · OtherMountain Child Advocacy Center IncLiteracy Together — $117,500 · OtherLiteracy TogetherHOMEWARD BOUND WNC — $100,000 · OtherHOMEWARD BOUND WNCRiverLink Inc — $80,000 · OtherRiverLink IncHALOS — $75,000 · OtherHALOSTHE NC ARBORETUM SOCIETY — $75,000 · OtherTHE NC ARBORETUM SOCIETYThe North Carolina Arboretum — $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · Other+7 more — $106,273 · Other+7 moreWARREN WILSON COLLEGE — $185,000 · EducationWARREN WILSON COL…MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $100,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN AREA HEA…Davidson College — $45,000 · EducationDavidson CollegeOpen Doors of Asheville Inc — $26,000 · EducationOpen Doors of Ash…+1 more — $10,000 · EducationMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $300,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BAN…KIDS ON POINT INC — $265,000 · Recreation & SportsKIDS ON POIN…All Souls Counseling Center — $75,000 · HealthBLACK MOUNTAIN COUNSELING CENTER IN — $60,045 · HealthRoper St Francis Foundation — $45,000 · HealthW4H ASHEVILLE — $90,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $59,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,073,773Education$366,000Food & Nutrition$300,000Recreation & Sports$265,000Health$180,045Human Services$90,000Arts & Culture$59,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC — $265,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE — $185,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMountain Child Advocacy Center Inc — $120,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetLiteracy Together — $117,500 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetW4H ASHEVILLE — $90,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetRiverLink Inc — $80,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAll Souls Counseling Center — $75,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN COUNSELING CENTER IN — $60,045 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $59,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDavidson College — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Doors of Asheville Inc — $26,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE LOGAN CONFERENCE CENTER AND CAMP HENRY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOne-Eighty Place — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER DOG TRANSPORT ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetEVERGREEN COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPartnership for Appalachian Girls Education — $6,273 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

The Community Foundat…Dogwood Health TrustWnc Bridge FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…Foundation for the Ca…The Frances & William…Richard Eckerd Founda…The Goodman Foundatio…The Hedrick Family Fo…Community Foundation …The Cannon Foundation…Morosani Foundation
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina IncNC31.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · The Goodman Foundation Inc · The Hedrick Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Morosani Foundation

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 Pisgah Investments Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report 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 Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc 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 29 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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