North Carolina · Nonprofit
BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC
BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,329,332 to it, the largest being VICTORIA GARRETT LEGACY FOUNDATION ($2,346,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 105
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Black Mountain Home for Children Youth and Families Inc does
Mission
To glorify god by caring for children, youth, and families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Black mountain community living, llc was created in 2024 to invest in real estate and lease homes to the local community at reasonable rates. The llcs primary assets consist of three singlefamily homes in old fort, nc. All occupied homes are currently leased by black mountain home staff. It is treated as a disregarded entity for tax purposes.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Black mountain home for children, youth & families has been caring for abandoned, abused, neglected, and orphaned children in western north carolina for more than a century. Begun by presbyterian minister robert perry smith in 1904 as mountain orphanage, the home began its ministry taking in appalachian children whose parents had died or disappeared. Today, the ministry serves youth from birth through college graduation and beyond through family foster care, residential care, transitional living, and independent living.
$6,713,134 spentof which $22,799 as grants100% of program spending1. We consider our children to be at promise rather than at risk. 2. We care for the children entrusted to us the same way we would want our own children or grandchildren to be cared for. 3. We aim to be a model ministry that other organizations can look to us for examples of best practices in the industry.
For the 2023-2024 year, black mountain home for children served a total of 117 nonduplicated youth (142 total placements) campus houses and eller = 40 independent living = 18 foster care = 53 lifelong living = 01 higher education support = 05 forever home placements (pre-adoptive/adoption, reunification, kinship, guardianship, custody) = 11
N/a
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,713,134.
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 2024 to 2025, from $30M to $41M (+35%).
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: 2017 47% · 2018 56% · 2019 56% · 2020 42% · 2021 38% · 2022 35% · 2023 32% · 2024 31% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Virginia Bradford
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $267k → $1.1M.
25 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 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
BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
47% 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 BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 28% · 2019 27% · 2020 44% · 2021 28% · 2022 39% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.
“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
53% of BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
71% of BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Black Mountain Community Living LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC?
- BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,329,332 to it, the largest being VICTORIA GARRETT LEGACY FOUNDATION ($2,346,000). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $11,329,332 in grants to BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC?
- VICTORIA GARRETT LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,346,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 105 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