North Carolina · Nonprofit
APPALACHIAN VOICES
APPALACHIAN VOICES (North Carolina) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,013,480 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($7,750,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 101
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What Appalachian Voices does
Mission
Appalachian Voices brings people together to protect the land, air, and water of central and southern appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Shift investments to clean energy and accelerate a just transition to healthy prosperous communities: promoted policies and strengthened efforts to hasten a transition to clean energy sources that support rather than destroy the natural and cultural heritage of the appalachian mountain region, and worked in broad partnerships to advance economic initiatives in areas most impacted by coal to build more resilient economies that build on the assets of the region rather than destroy it.
$3,023,286 spentof which $187,055 as grants72% of program spendingPrevent new investments and eliminate fossil fuels' externalities: opposed major new investments in fossil fuel infrastructure including gas pipelines and new fossil fuel-generated electricity that would lock us into decades of continued fossil fuel use and thus discourage renewable energy and energy efficiency gains and internalized the pollution and waste disposal costs throughout the production and use of fossil fuels for electricity generation that are passed on to the public in the form of air and water pollution, habitat destruction and increased health costs.
$1,079,773 spent26% of program spendingBuild awareness of regional issues: continued to produce the appalachian voice newspaper, to build awareness of environmental threats and opportunities to transition to sustainable energy and economic alternatives.
$111,501 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,214,560.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.3M to $8.2M (+55%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 14% · 2021 0% · 2022 8% · 2023 19% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of APPALACHIAN VOICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Thomas D Cormons
Executive director
Board chair
Tracey Wright
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $5.2M.
25 of 101 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of APPALACHIAN VOICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 101 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
APPALACHIAN VOICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund APPALACHIAN VOICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 67% · 2019 71% · 2020 47% · 2021 39% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of APPALACHIAN VOICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of APPALACHIAN VOICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
APPALACHIAN VOICES is better cushioned than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding APPALACHIAN VOICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$1.5M
- Environmental Protection Agency$618k
- Department of Commerce$317k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like APPALACHIAN VOICES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPALACHIAN VOICES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES?
- APPALACHIAN VOICES (North Carolina) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,013,480 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($7,750,000). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does APPALACHIAN VOICES have?
- IRS filings report 101 organizations giving $23,013,480 in grants to APPALACHIAN VOICES, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPALACHIAN VOICES?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $7,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPALACHIAN VOICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 101 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing