North Carolina · Nonprofit
Great Smokies Health Foundation
Great Smokies Health Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being PAUL AND ELIZABETH YOUNTS CHAR TUW ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $701k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Great Smokies Health Foundation does
Mission
Improve healthcare in Jackson, Swain, Graham and Macon counties in North Carolina.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Great Smokies Health Foundation (GSHF) has expanded and enhanced healthcare in targeted areas by the provision of grants and supportive services. GSHF suppports programs, projects and initiatives focused on health, wellness, and prevention. Funding is provided to non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations and governmental agencies. We are currently working with our community healthcare providers and agencies to identify areas for future funding. GSHF operates the Jackson County Thrift Shop. The Thrift shop offers a great variety and excellent prices in gently used items.
$792,956 spentof which $611,412 as grants$160,506 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $792,956.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $8.8M (−21%).
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.
0% of Great Smokies Health Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Shelley Carraway
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Great Smokies Health Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
Great Smokies Health Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Great Smokies Health Foundation has grown faster than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Great Smokies Health Foundation
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Great Smokies Health Foundation: 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 Great Smokies Health Foundation?
- Great Smokies Health Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being PAUL AND ELIZABETH YOUNTS CHAR TUW ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Great Smokies Health Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to Great Smokies Health Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Great Smokies Health Foundation?
- PAUL AND ELIZABETH YOUNTS CHAR TUW is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Great Smokies Health Foundation 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 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing