North Carolina · Nonprofit
HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION
HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,756 to it, the largest being Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $546k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $158k
- Net assets
- $248k
What Hood Huggers Foundation does
Mission
Hood Huggers Foundation restores the grassroots regenerative well-being of our communities using the arts, environment, and social enterprise.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Under instruction (workforce & economic development pipeline) - provides workforce training, job placement, and entrepreneurial development opportunities, particularly in construction, green industries, and social enterprise. This includes youthbuild, which prepares participants for living-wage employment while contributing to disaster recovery and affordable housing.
$175,400 spent$10,744 earned by the program59% of program spendingPeace gardens & market - a community micro-farm and outdoor education space that promotes food justice, environmental stewardship, and cultural preservation. It offers free produce to local elders, hands-on learning opportunities, and hosts youth-led and community events.
$45,763 spent$693 earned by the program15% of program spendingBlue note junction - a developing mixed-use community resiliency hub in west ashevilles historic burton street neighborhood, featuring a commercial kitchen, market, arts and healing spaces, and future affordable housing. It supports climate resilience, appalachian/wnc cultural heritage, and economic opportunity through small business support.
$74,791 spent$804 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $295,954.
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
Safi Martin
Executive director
Board chair
Dewayne Barton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $35k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 HOOD HUGGERS 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.
How concentrated its funding is
HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
84% 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 HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 57% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION'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 $56k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HOOD HUGGERS 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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
- Hood Huggers International LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOOD HUGGERS 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 HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION?
- HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,756 to it, the largest being Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $157,756 in grants to HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of HOOD HUGGERS FOUNDATION?
- Athens Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOOD HUGGERS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 11 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