Amy Wellness Foundation
Spruce Pine, NC · EIN 58-2172660. Reported 65 grants totalling $5,992,358 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Amy Wellness Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70).
- How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 25% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $49,995. Half of what it reported fell between $21,750 and $75,000; the smallest was $6,770 and the largest $989,164. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $989,164 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of Avery County Inc | Linville, NC | $1,471,074 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mitchell County Safe Place | Spruce Pine, NC | $1,164,164 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| W a M Y Community Action Inc | Boone, NC | $685,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mountain Community Health Partnership Incorporated | Bakersville, NC | $310,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southern Reconciliation Ministries Inc | Burnsville, NC | $255,384 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| High Country Community Health | Boone, NC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional Inc | Spruce Pine, NC | $219,739 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dig in Yancey Community Garden | Burnsville, NC | $212,557 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blue Ridge Partnership for Children | Burnsville, NC | $132,860 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pisgah Legal Services | Asheville, NC | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mitchell Giving Gardens | Spruce Pine, NC | $107,525 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Avery County Government | Newland, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Avery County Schools | Newland, NC | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Buladean Community Foundation | Bakersville, NC | $87,865 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mitchell County Public Transport | Bakersville, NC | $83,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crossnore Communities for Children | Newland, NC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Feeding Avery Families | Newland, NC | $72,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Partners Aligned Toward Health | Burnsville, NC | $68,070 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mitchell County Shepherds Staff Inc | Spruce Pine, NC | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hands of Hope North Carolina | Winston Salem, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yancey County Schools | Burnsville, NC | $45,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Center for Rural Health Innovation | Spruce Pine, NC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Spring Creek Inc | Bakersville, NC | $28,770 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| High Country Caregiver Foundation | Boone, NC | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Appalachian State University Foundation Inc | Boone, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Carereach Inc | Marion, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charity Navigator | Union City, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hospice of Yancey County Inc Dba Compassionate Care Western Nc | Burnsville, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| My Neighbors | Burnsville, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Neighbors Feeding Neighbors Food Ministry | Erwin, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spruce Pine Montessori School Inc | Spruce Pine, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Annabelles Haven | Burnsville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arthur Morgan School Inc | Burnsville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Avery Association for Exceptional Citizens Inc | Newland, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mitchell County Schools | Bakersville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood Table | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spruce Pine Main Street Inc | Spruce Pine, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thrive Appalachia | Burnsville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
16 of 38 (42%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10 | $981,141 | $75,000 |
| 2022 | 12 | $1,676,512 | $49,997 |
| 2023 | 10 | $994,635 | $29,250 |
| 2024 | 33 | $2,340,070 | $40,625 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $49,995 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Amy Wellness Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 33 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 31 Cross St Ste 266, Spruce Pine, NC, 28777.
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