Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc
Highlands, NC · EIN 56-1165833. Reported 70 grants totalling $4,860,986 to 47 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 Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E22) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 53% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 54% 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 $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $7,390 and the largest $700,009. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Community Health Services Inc | Hendersonvlle, NC | $2,577,088 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Counseling and Psychotherapy Center of Highlands Inc | Highlands, NC | $250,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Macon County Public Schools | Franklin, NC | $146,640 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Child Medical Collaborative Inc | Sylva, NC | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Vecinos Inc | Franklin, NC | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Plateau | Cashiers, NC | $118,476 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Summit Charter School Inc | Cashiers, NC | $88,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hights Inc | Cullowhee, NC | $83,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Restoration House - Wnc | Bryson City, NC | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hinton Rural Life Center | Hayesville, NC | $78,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jackson County Public Schools | Cashiers, NC | $78,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Adults Working and Advocating for Kids Empowerment Awake | Sylva, NC | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mountain Projects Inc | Waynesville, NC | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jackson County Department of Social Services | Sylva, NC | $62,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mountain Park Urgent Care & Walk in Clinic Pllc | Sylva, NC | $61,640 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bhm Regional Library Inc | Washington, NC | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| International Friendship Center | Highlands, NC | $51,875 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Care Clinic of Highlands-Cashiers Inc | Highlands, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project Inc | Cashiers, NC | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Macon County Ems | Franklin, NC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Catamount School at Western Carolina University | Sylva, NC | $41,683 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Care Clinic of Franklin | Franklin, NC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Resources Education Assistance Counseling and Housing of Macon | Franklin, NC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western Carolina Medical Society Foundation Inc | Asheville, NC | $38,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Four-Square Community Action Inc | Andrews, NC | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians | Cherokee, NC | $37,111 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hospice House Foundation of Wnc Inc | Franklin, NC | $31,420 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clay County Governing Board | Hayesville, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwestern Child Development Commission Inc | Webster, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hospice of Henderson County Inc | Flat Rock, NC | $27,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Care Clinic of Franklin Inc | Franklin, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Macon Program for Progress Inc | Franklin, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Highlands Rotary Club Charities Inc | Highlands, NC | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Western North Carolina Inc | Asheville, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Table Inc | Sylva, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Highlands Emergency Council Inc | Highlands, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Swain County | Bryson City, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Together We Can Do Great Things | Franklin, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pisgah Legal Services | Asheville, NC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hawthorn Heights Wnc Inc | Bryson City, NC | $10,963 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fishes & Loaves Food Pantry Inc | Cashiers, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Highland Community Child Development Center Inc | Highlands, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Macon County Care Network | Franklin, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mountain Alliance and Mission Inc | Franklin, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western Carolina Pacesetters Inc | Murphy, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Graham County Senior Center | Robbinsville, NC | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jackson County Department on Aging | Sylva, NC | $7,390 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
17 of 47 (36%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Blue Ridge Community Health Services Inc
PROGRAM/OPERATIONAL SUPPORT - Counseling and Psychotherapy Center of Highlands
Behavioral and Mental Health Support related to Hurricane Helene. Expanding access to services and community awareness - Hights
Restorative Justice Behavioral Health - Vecinos Farmworker Health Program
Hurricane Helene Relief and Care Plan Program Implementation - Jackson County Department of Social Services
Integrated Behavioral Health Services for Youth in Foster Care - Mountain Park Urgent Care & Walk in Clinic Pllc
SCHOOL COVID TESTING SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 47 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 | 8 | $954,140 | $35,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $1,317,355 | $30,710 |
| 2023 | 14 | $1,332,695 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 32 | $1,256,796 | $15,000 |
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
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $30,000 -- 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 Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc'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 32 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: Po Box 742, Highlands, NC, 28714.
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