North Carolina · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,530,295 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($7,991,488). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $147M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $89M
What Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc does
Mission
The nc ahec program provides and supports educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy north carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Graduated 23 from three-year programs based in one urban and two rural family health centers. Sports medicine fellows graduated 4. Addiction medicine fellows graduated 2. Transitional year residency graduated 13. Services provided in the health centers resulted in 101,728 patient encounters. Family medicine provided $318,687 in charity care.
$35,820,681 spent$36,136,304 earned by the program28% of program spendingGraduated 4 from four-year program and 1 maternal fetal medicine fellow based in our women's health center, a high risk maternity and other care clinic serving our 16-county region. Services provided in the health centers resulted in 62,812 patient encounters and 2,685 deliveries. Included in these volumes are high-risk maternal fetal medical services provided to the 16 counties in western north carolina. Obstetrics and gynecology provided $649,840 in charity care.
$22,981,884 spent$19,353,412 earned by the program18% of program spendingGraduated 5 from the 4 year psychiatry residency program. Graduated 0 addiction phychiatry fellows and 1 child & adolescent phychiatry fellows. Services provided in the health centers resulted in 47,386 patient encounters. Psychiatry provided $251,481 in charity care.
$14,895,077 spent$16,372,198 earned by the program12% of program spendingUnc health sciences at mahec includes the unc school of medicine asheville campus, a master of public health program led by unc gillings school of global public health, and innovative educational and research collaborations with unc eshelman school of pharmacy. Unc health sciences at mahec is supported and informed by mahec's department of research and library science , which focuses on rural healthcare workforce development, academic medicine, clinical research, and practice transformation to improve patient, community, and population health. All programs under the umbrella of unc health sciences at mahec encourage learners to train with rural professionals, develop a deep appreciation for rural values, and contribute to improving the quality of life and health in communities across wnc.
$12,304,599 spent$18,111,799 earned by the program10% of program spendingGraduated 16 from 3 year internal medicine residency program. Services provided in the health centers resulted in 23,024 patient encounters. Internal medicine provided $61,493 in charity care.
$12,918,970 spent$12,478,535 earned by the program10% of program spendingGraduated 7 from a one-year program. Services provided in the dental health center resulted in 12,047 patient encounters and provided $343,282 in charity care.
$5,914,623 spent$5,871,713 earned by the program5% of program spendingProvided continuing education for health & human service professionals in allied health, dentistry, healthcare leadership, medicine, mental health, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Also educated in health careers & diversity. Regional education provided 822 continuing education programs to approximately 30,618 participants in western north carolina to professionals in all fields of healthcare.
$6,370,603 spent$6,999,125 earned by the program5% of program spendingMahec's rural health initiative (rhi) is addressing our region's rural healthcare provider shortage through inter-professional health sciences education, collaboration with rural communities, and the development of innovative sustainable models of rural healthcare to improve health across western north carolina. Graduated 1 surgical critical care fellow and 6 general surgeons.
$3,595,610 spent$6,189,152 earned by the program3% of program spendingMahec's 340b retail pharmacy was created support community needs and our patients. In addition to expanding access and services to patients, the pharmacy services are key to the education and learners and residents. Graduated 5 from pharmacy residency program in an urban and rural setting (3 from a 2 year program and 2 from a 1 year program).
$13,692,423 spent$19,995,262 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $128,494,470.
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 2018 to 2019, from $65M to $80M (+22%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 10% · 2022 9% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% 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.
Chief executive
William R Hathaway Md
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $263k → $1.2M.
8 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 64% · 2019 37% · 2020 49% · 2021 44% · 2022 58% · 2023 62% — 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
20% of MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER 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
84% of MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER 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. $364k 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
MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$33.9M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$50k
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 MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,530,295 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($7,991,488). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $13,530,295 in grants to MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $7,991,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER 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 50 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