North Carolina · Private foundation
Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $418k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc 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; $295k 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 | 11 | $418k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $550k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $361k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $416k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $386k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $203k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manna Food Bank Inc | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kids on Point Inc | $265,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Warren Wilson College | $185,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Western North Carolina | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Literacy Together | $117,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| W4h Asheville | $90,000 | 1 | 7% |
| RiverLink Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 1% |
| All Souls Counseling Center | $75,000 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manna Food Bank Inc | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kids on Point Inc | $265,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Warren Wilson College | $185,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Western North Carolina | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Literacy Together | $117,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| W4h Asheville | $90,000 | 1 | 7% |
| RiverLink Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 1% |
| All Souls Counseling Center | $75,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Black Mountain Counseling Center In | $60,045 | 3 | 8% |
| International African American Museum | $59,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Davidson College | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Roper St Francis Foundation | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Open Doors of Asheville Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lake Logan Conference Center and Camp Henry Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Lowcountry Food Bank Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shelter Dog Transport Alliance | $20,000 | 1 | 7% |
| One-Eighty Place | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Evergreen Community Charter School | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Partnership for Appalachian Girls Education | $6,273 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($515k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc
- How much does Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc give?
- Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $417,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Human Services (21%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Manna Food Bank Inc ($300k), Kids on Point Inc ($265k), Warren Wilson College ($185k).
- Does Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, Wnc Bridge Foundation.
- Where is Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc based?
- Pisgah Investments Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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