· Public charity
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
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $451,524 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $610,681 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $159,157 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $342k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC | $90,000 |
| LINVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE | $36,855 |
| OASIS INC | $30,000 |
| AVERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| AVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF BANNER ELK FOUNDATIONAVERY HIGH KEY CLUB | $20,000 |
| GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION | $19,000 |
| REACHING AVERY MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| SPIRIT RIDE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $15,000 |
| WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $15,000 |
| HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS | $15,000 |
| MEDIATION & RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER | $15,000 |
| LEES-MCRAE COLLEG | $15,000 |
| MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE FOR TEENS | $13,000 |
| HUNGER & HEALTH COALITION | $12,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FAFEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC5× · 2017–2022 · $140k · revenue ×15
- AAAVERY ASSOCIATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CITIZENS5× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +89%
- ACAVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY6× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TNTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated3× · 2018–2020 · $25k · revenue +36%
- ACAVERY COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPT4× · 2018–2021 · $10k
- CCCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN3× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Volunteer Avery County finds resources to aid families and individuals that do not qualify for public assistance and fall through the cracks.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Provide services for elderly
To create high quality employment opportunities for unemployed and underemployed residents of mitchell, avery, and yancey counties in north carolina
To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.
A collaborative network that increases access and improves health outcomes for safety net populations in western north carolina
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
Public transportation services to the general public including the elderly and disabled population
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Avery Association for Exceptional Citizens and the most unlike its peers is Spirithorse Therapeutic Riding Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 33 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds AVERY ASSOCIATION FOR EXCEPTIONAL CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds AVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AVERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds OPPOSING ABUSE WITH SERVICE INFORMATION & SHELTER ↗
- Who funds REACHING AVERY MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MEDIATION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Western Youth Network Inc ↗
- Who funds SPIRITHORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HISTORIC BANNER ELK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOPE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON PRESBYTERY CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds CASTING BREAD MINISTRIES ↗
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.
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
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 High Country Charitable 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.
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.