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INVEST APPALACHIA INC

INVEST APPALACHIA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,361,750 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($822,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.7M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$5.4M
Net assets
$7.1M
7/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%
01What it does

What Invest Appalachia Inc does

Mission

Invest appalachia (ia) is a regional impact investment platform designed by and for the people of central appalachia. Ia provides blended investment capital to strengthen business opportunities, build equitable local wealth, advance critical sectors, and increase quality of life for everyone in central appalachia. Ia was initiated through the appalachia funders network and developed by a collaborative group of regional leaders representing cdfis, public and private philanthropic entities, local institutions, and community organizations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Invest appalachia aims to change the relationship between communities and capital. We are committed to a strategy that takes the best of impact investing and makes it work for appalachia - putting impact first. Invest appalachia supports economic diversification and market growth that is locally-rooted, inclusive, and sustainable, while increasing the regions overall capacity and investability. And we are committed to a process and structure that is rooted in our founding values: participatory, democratic, and transparent, with a focus on increasing racial, gender, & socioeconomic equity, economic self- sufficiency, and local wealth-building.

    $4,077,022 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,077,022.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($649k) Expenses 100 ($444k) Net assets 100 ($204k)2022 Revenue 609 ($3.9M) Expenses 300 ($1.3M) Net assets 1380 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 296 ($1.9M) Expenses 527 ($2.3M) Net assets 1173 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 702 ($4.6M) Expenses 513 ($2.3M) Net assets 2284 ($4.7M)2025 Revenue 1035 ($6.7M) Expenses 968 ($4.3M) Net assets 3462 ($7.1M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (1035)Expenses (968)Net assets (3462)Peer revenue range

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 $220k to $3.2M (+1354%).

$220k
$3.2M
$3.0M
$5.4M
$8.0M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

88% of INVEST APPALACHIA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,303 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$204k
’21
$2.6M
’22
−$423k
’23
$2.3M
’24
$2.4M
’25
19
months of
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

Andrew Crosson

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed414131314
Joined·+10+1+0+4
No longer listed·0203
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $75k → $800k.

6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 INVEST APPALACHIA INC’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

INVEST APPALACHIA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

36% 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 INVEST APPALACHIA INC.

15%
largest funder
39%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 28% · 2023 63% — 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

50% of INVEST APPALACHIA INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

INVEST APPALACHIA INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 8 states in all.

MN
IL
PA
NJ
CA
WV
VA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

INVEST APPALACHIA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)79% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding INVEST APPALACHIA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $897k on record.

Federal$897k
grants $897kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Appalachian Regional Commission$497k
  • Department of Commerce$400k

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 INVEST APPALACHIA 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 2 states

DE
NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds INVEST APPALACHIA INC?
INVEST APPALACHIA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,361,750 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($822,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INVEST APPALACHIA INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $5,361,750 in grants to INVEST APPALACHIA INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INVEST APPALACHIA INC?
DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $822,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INVEST APPALACHIA 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 17 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