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Pisgah Health Foundation

To empower community connections for wellbeing.

$215k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$3.3MHuman Services$1.1MFood & Nutrition$758kEnvironment$550kEducation$527kHousing & Shelter$522kPhilanthropy$130kYouth Development$95kScience & Tech$75kOther$2.2M
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $191,732 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $215,232 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,500 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Housing Coalition of Madison County$60,000
Transylvania County Habitat for Humanity$31,232
Individual grant recipient$30,000
Anchor Baptist Church$25,000
Sharing House$15,000
Transylvania Youth Soccer Association$13,000
The Housing Assistance Corporation$10,000
Interfaith Assistance Ministry$7,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $681k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMPASSIONATE CARE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $82k → 15%THE HAVEN OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY: $135k → 13%MY FATHER'S STOREHOUSE DBA THE STOREHOUSE: $10k → 12%TRUE RIDGE: $23k → 12%BEACON OF HOPE SERVICES: $50k → 15%Haywood Christian Ministry: $19k → 12%Beacon of Hope Services: $23k → 15%PIGEON MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $7k → 12%BEACON OF HOPE SERVICES: $10k → 15%HAYWOOD COUNTY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $65k → 12%HENDERSON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING (DBA COUNCIL ON AGING FOR HENDERSON COUNT: $19k → 12%COMMUNITY ACTION OPPORTUNITIES INC: $17k → 12%TRUE RIDGE: $10k → 12%NEIGHBORS IN MINISTRY: $40k → 13%Interfaith Assistance Ministry: $8k → 12%Interfaith Assistance Ministry: $8k → 12%CREATING A FAMILY: $30k → 13%ONLY HOPE WNC INC: $55k → 12%THE FAMILY PLACE: $29k → 13%ONLY HOPE WNC INC: $10k → 12%RISE & SHINENEIGHBORS IN MINISTRY: $13k → 12%MILLS RIVER LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER: $10k → 12%MILLS RIVER LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER: $10k → 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 30 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
84

Total granted

$5.2M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+68%

Still filing today

77%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

  • WC
    WESTERN CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $366k · revenue +52%
  • MANNA FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $353k · revenue +153%
  • CH
    Community Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue +254%

Funded once

  • AS
    Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Projectgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $260k · revenue +62%
  • CC
    Conserving Carolinagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $240k · revenue +240%
  • MI
    MountainCare Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $224k · revenue -98%

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
The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc

The hunger and health coalition relieves poverty and hunger for households experiencing economic hardship and food insecurity. we serve low-income and uninsured residents of avery, watauga and ashe counties who are forced to choose between…

Food & Nutrition
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
Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.

Housing & Shelter
4
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
5
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
6
Ashe County Recovery and Restoration

Ashe County Recovery and Restoration was established in October 2024 in response to the devastation in Ashe County, nc that occured as a result of Hurricane Helene.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Restoring Hope Center Inc

Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…

Human Services
8
The Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc

Create a community where individuals impacted by homelessness, poverty, and unemployment are empowered through our transitional programs and transformed by the love and ministry of Jesus Christ.

Food & Nutrition
9
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
10
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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11
Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina

To provide food and shelter for the homeless

Housing & Shelter
12
Habitat for Humanity of Burke County Inc

Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with gods people in need by building houses, so that there are decent homes in decent communities in whigh gods people…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain Aging Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southern Highlands Reserve Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr13%26%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr21%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr13%22%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr21%39%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/118
the rest of the field
10%
282/2,700

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.

04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 116 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/100
Grantees still filing
79/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ANC TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC — $2,372,104 · HealthANC TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INCMountainCare Inc — $224,004 · HealthMountainCare IncCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $126,000 · HealthSustainable Health For All — $112,500 · Health+10 more — $433,237 · Health+10 moreBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ED…BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $168,300 · OtherBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SER…EACH INITIATIVE INC — $156,500 · OtherEACH INITIATIVE INCTRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC — $148,750 · OtherTRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY…BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED — $101,180 · OtherLAND OF SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL — $100,700 · OtherTRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $94,081 · OtherSOUTHWESTERN CHILD DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION INC — $86,052 · OtherMOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC — $85,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC — $84,762 · Other+45 more — $1,326,386 · Other+45 moreWESTERN CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $365,842 · Human ServicesWESTERN CAROL…The Haven of Transylvania County — $134,500 · Human ServicesThe Haven of …Haywood Christian Ministry Inc — $83,650 · Human ServicesHaywood Chris…Beacon of Hope Services Inc — $82,500 · Human ServicesBeacon of Hop…Hospice of Yancey County Inc — $82,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Ya…ONLY HOPE WNC — $65,000 · Human ServicesONLY HOPE WNCNeighbors in Ministry Inc — $53,450 · Human Services+10 more — $209,500 · Human Services+10 moreMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $353,499 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOO…Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc — $169,912 · Food & NutritionToe River…THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC — $79,500 · Food & NutritionTHE COMMU…MEALS ON WHEELS OF BREVARD INC — $74,266 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON …+7 more — $80,984 · Food & Nutrition+7 moreAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project — $259,590 · EnvironmentConserving Carolina — $240,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC — $22,250 · Environment+2 more — $27,887 · EnvironmentResources for Resilience — $127,340 · EducationMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $116,500 · EducationSMART START OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY — $106,000 · EducationSt Gerard House — $76,000 · EducationHENDERSON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · EducationMadison County Education Foundation Incorporated — $25,000 · EducationBrevard Academy Inc — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $16,488 · EducationCommunity Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc — $240,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION — $152,000 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED ASHEVILLE — $72,970 · Housing & ShelterHaywood Pathways Center Inc — $37,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$3,267,845Other$2,531,711Human Services$1,076,442Food & Nutrition$758,161Environment$549,727Education$527,328Housing & Shelter$521,970

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 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 budgetCommunity Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc — $240,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetConserving Carolina — $240,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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 budgetMuddy Sneakers Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 5.8% 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
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.

Dogwood Health TrustThe Community Foundat…Wnc Bridge FoundationCommunity Foundation …Manna Food Bank IncThe Cannon Foundation…Impact HealthLake Toxaway CharitiesHenderson County Unit…Walnut Cove Members A…North Carolina Commun…United Way of Ashevil…
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

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 Health Foundation 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%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 116 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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