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Redstone Summit Foundation

Cashiers, NC · EIN 76-0533496. Reported 50 grants totalling $55,730 to 29 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$55,730granted, 2021-2025
29recipients, as named on its returns
59%of grantees funded again the next year
$159,138assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Redstone Summit Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
32 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
16 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Franklin & Marshall CollegeLancaster, PA$12,500222025
Mayo ClinicRochester, MN$10,500332025
The Church of the Good ShepherdCashiers, NC$7,420442025
Highlands Cashiers Health FoundationHighlands, NC$4,250552025
Start the Adventure in Reading IncNew Orleans, LA$2,800442025
Boys & Girls Club of the PlateauCashiers, NC$1,900112025
St Francis Episcopal ChurchHouston, TX$1,650332025
Cashiers Cares IncCashiers, NC$1,500332025
Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project IncCashiers, NC$1,150222025
The Church of the Good ShephardCashiers, NC$1,090112021
Community Bible ChurchHighlands, NC$1,000112025
Eagle Valley Family Assistance FundAvon, CO$1,000112024
Glenville-Cashiers Rescue Squad IncCashiers, NC$1,000222025
Leveen-Roach Scholarship Fund of Secession Golf ClubBeaufort, SC$1,000112022
Blue Ridge School Education Foundation IncCashiers, NC$740222024
Big Brothers Big SistersAsheville, NC$730112022
Chattooga ConservancyMountain Rest, NC$500112021
Florida Poodle Rescue IncSt Petersberg, FL$500112025
Holy Angels Residential FacilityShreveport, LA$500112025
Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsHouston, TX$500112025
Lord of the StreetsHouston, NC$500112021
Pisgah Legal ServiceAsheville, NC$500112025
Secession Golf Club Relief FundBeaufort, SC$500112022
Start the Adventure in ReadingNew Orleans, NC$500112021
Boys Club Girls Club of the PlateauCashiers, NC$400112022
The Leveen-Roach Scholarship Fund of Secession Golf ClubAugusta, GA$400222025
Summit Charter SchoolCashiers, NC$300112021
First Tee - Central Carolina Wnc Chapter (golf Fore Fun Inc)Clemmons, NC$200112024
Leeveen-Roach Scholarship Fund of Secession Golf ClubBeaufort, NC$200112021

11 of 29 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 59%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 28 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
12 grants
Health Care
7 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
2 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$3,890$500
20227$5,300$750
20237$7,750$1,000
202412$23,440$470
202516$15,350$750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

43% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

North Carolina
$24K
Pennsylvania
$12K
Minnesota
$10K
Louisiana
$3K
Texas
$2K
South Carolina
$2K
Colorado
$1K
Florida
$500

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust9 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc7 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program7 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in North Carolina.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Redstone Summit Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 3330, Cashiers, NC, 28717. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 76-0533496 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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