North Carolina · Nonprofit
Pisgah Health Foundation
Pisgah Health Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,315,661 to it, the largest being MISSION HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ($1,187,982). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $793k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Pisgah Health Foundation does
Mission
To empower community connections for wellbeing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Aging Initiative--$228,406: PHF provided grants to four non-profit organizations offering a range of services to seniors including delivery of hot meals to older, homebound seniors, lunch meal program with activities, liquid nutrition supplement and shelf stable food boxes, transportation, personal hygiene products and programs and workshops focused on purpose and increasing connections for improved well- being among others. A tangible result to date from this grant is the collaboration that has occurred between several organizations providing services to seniors in Transylvania County.
$964,036 spentof which $672,474 as grants$3,190 earned by the program100% of program spendingHome Repair Grant: PHF provided grants to five non-profit organizations to address the home repair needs of their clients. Over 115 home repair projects were completed which impacted over 140 individuals. While the majority of home repairs addressed the needs for the elderly and disabled populations, some grantees participated in the Healthy Opportunities Pilot Program and include serving families with children who were living in unsafe and/or unhealthy living environments. These repairs made impacts in such areas as helping improve community health, increasing the ability of older adults to age in place, making homes stable and significantly improving living conditions for families in need.
Blue Zones Project-Brevard--$153,846: A community health project that improved physical and social well-being of the community through programs, policies and semi- permanent and permanent changes in man-made surroundings. More than 5,000 community members of all ages were engaged with this project which included participating in programs, volunteering in the community and supporting the planning and implementation of the project. In addition, 13 worksites became Blue Zones Project Approved TM worksites with one notable outcome in Brevard being the savings of $5.2 million in healthcare costs and workforce productivity.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $964,036.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $17M (+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.
29% of Pisgah Health Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Shiela Jarvis
Interim Executive Director
Board chair
Jeremy Purcell
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $54k → $5k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $17M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Anc Healthcare Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Pisgah Health Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Pisgah 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Pisgah Health Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Pisgah Health Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 71% · 2019 79% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 44% — 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
17% of Pisgah Health Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of Pisgah Health Foundation'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. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Pisgah Health Foundation's revenue fell 72% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Pisgah 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
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pisgah Health Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Camp Bluebird LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Pisgah Health Foundation?
- Pisgah Health Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,315,661 to it, the largest being MISSION HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ($1,187,982). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pisgah Health Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,315,661 in grants to Pisgah Health Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pisgah Health Foundation?
- MISSION HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,187,982 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pisgah 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 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