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High Country Charitable Foundation Inc

The vision of the foundation is to provide for need avery county residents and animals by supporting local public chartities and other private foundations

$611k
Granted FY2022
24
Itemized grants FY2022
22
Organizations funded FY2022
18%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$452k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 24
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$4.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 18% of the organizations High Country Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22
HealthAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY202222$452k18%
FY201824$395k25%
FY201723$282kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Human Services$238kFood & Nutrition$203kHousing & Shelter$175kEducation$136kAnimals$59kPhilanthropy$52kYouth Development$43kCrime & Legal$41kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feeding Avery Families Inc$139,500514%
Avery Association for Exceptional Citizens$80,00056%
Avery County Habitat for Humanity$65,00064%
Williams YMCA of Avery County$59,24962%
Avery County Humane Society Inc$58,50055%
Wamy Community Action Inc$55,00062%
Lees-McRae College Inc$52,50050%
Kiwanis Club of Banner Elk Foundation$52,0006n/a
Opposing Abuse With Service Information & Shelter$50,00062%
Volunteer Avery County$40,0005n/a
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All grantees of High Country Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feeding Avery Families Inc$139,500514%
Avery Association for Exceptional Citizens$80,00056%
Avery County Habitat for Humanity$65,00064%
Williams YMCA of Avery County$59,24962%
Avery County Humane Society Inc$58,50055%
Wamy Community Action Inc$55,00062%
Lees-McRae College Inc$52,50050%
Kiwanis Club of Banner Elk Foundation$52,0006n/a
Opposing Abuse With Service Information & Shelter$50,00062%
Volunteer Avery County$40,0005n/a
Reaching Avery Ministry$38,00064%
Linville Volunteer Fire Department Inc$36,85527%
The Hill Center Inc$36,50050%
The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc$34,50061%
Blue Ridge Partnership for Children$32,00061%
Mediation and Restorative Justice Center$31,00064%
Spirithorse Therapeutic Riding Center$30,0006n/a
The Western Youth Network Inc$30,00042%
Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina$30,00051%
Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation Inc$29,00060%
Mountain Alliance Inc$25,00055%
The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc$25,00030%
Friends of the Historic Banner Elk School Inc$16,42045%
High Country Caregiver Foundation$15,00022%
Children's Hope Alliance$12,00040%
Community Care Clinic Inc$12,00022%
Holston Presbytery Camp and Retreat Center Inc$10,00031%
Special Olympics North Carolina Inc$5,00010%
Crossnore Communities for Children$5,0003n/a
Avery County Schools$5,0001n/a
Casting Bread Ministries$4,0001n/a
Appalachian State University$4,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget High Country Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding Avery Families Inc: $139,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetAvery Association for Exceptional Citizens: $80,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetAvery County Habitat for Humanity: $65,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetWilliams YMCA of Avery County: $59,249 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetAvery County Humane Society Inc: $58,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetWamy Community Action Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetLees-McRae College Inc: $52,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOpposing Abuse With Service Information & Shelter: $50,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetReaching Avery Ministry: $38,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetLinville Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $36,855 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetThe Hill Center Inc: $36,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hunger and Health Coalition Inc: $34,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBlue Ridge Partnership for Children: $32,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMediation and Restorative Justice Center: $31,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetThe Western Youth Network Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHospitality House of Northwest North Carolina: $30,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGrandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation Inc: $29,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMountain Alliance Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetThe North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Historic Banner Elk School Inc: $16,420 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetHigh Country Caregiver Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetChildren's Hope Alliance: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Care Clinic Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHolston Presbytery Camp and Retreat Center Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSpecial Olympics North Carolina Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 25.

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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.

North Carolina Commun…The Community Foundat…High Country United W…Dogwood Health TrustWomens Fund of the Bl…Amy Wellness Foundati…The Cannon Foundation…Grandfather Community…Arthur Family Foundat…Manna Food Bank IncFoundation for the Ca…The Mataya Family Fou…
North Carolina Community FoundationNC29.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · High Country United Way · Dogwood Health Trust · Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc · Amy Wellness Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Grandfather Community Foundation Inc · Arthur Family Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Mataya Family Foundation

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 High Country Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does High Country Charitable Foundation Inc give?
High Country Charitable Foundation Inc reported 24 itemized grants totaling $451,524, out of $610,681 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does High Country Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
Who are High Country Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Feeding Avery Families Inc ($140k), Avery Association for Exceptional Citizens ($80k), Avery County Habitat for Humanity ($65k).
Does High Country Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as High Country Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, High Country United Way.
Where is High Country Charitable Foundation Inc based?
High Country Charitable Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 33 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $470k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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