The Health Foundation Inc
North Wilkesboro, NC · EIN 56-1745194. Reported 81 grants totalling $2,158,931 to 29 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 The Health Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E99Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 17% 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. 70% 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 $12,281. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $338,560. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Wilkesboro | Wilkesboro, NC | $363,560 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Recovery Revolution | N Wilkesboro, NC | $273,679 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wilkes County Schools | North Wilkesboro, NC | $220,062 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wilkes County Health Department | Wilkesboro, NC | $196,668 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Safe Spot Child Advocacy Center of Wilkes | Wilkesboro, NC | $145,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina | Boone, NC | $94,824 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wilkes Community Partnership for Children | N Wilkesboro, NC | $75,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wilkes Adult Developmental Activity Program Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Yadkin River Greenway Council | N Wilkesboro, NC | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ronda Community Vol Fire Dept Inc | Ronda, NC | $54,167 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wilkes Dental Consortium | N Wilkesboro, NC | $52,972 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alleghany Partnership for Children Inc | Sparta, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wilkes Day Care Association Inc | Wilkesboro, NC | $49,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Echo Ministry | Elkin, NC | $45,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wilkes Circles of Care Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $36,900 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carenet Counseling of Wilkes Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $35,459 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Samaritan Kitchen of Wilkes Inc | Wilkesboro, NC | $33,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Wilkes Literacy Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $32,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Appalachian State University | Boone, NC | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Wilkes Rescue Squad Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Town of North Wilkesboro | North Wilkesboro, NC | $24,464 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Child Abuse Prevention Team of Wilkes County | Wilkesboro, NC | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| North Wilkesboro Housing Authority | North Wilkesboro, NC | $22,226 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire Department Inc | Elkin, NC | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wilkes Youth Life Development Inc | Moravian Fls, NC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Carenet Counseling of Wilkes Inc | North Wilkesboro, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blue Ridge Opportunity Commission Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation | Asheville, NC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
20 of 29 (69%) 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.
- Town of Wilkesboro
FUNDING FOR PLAYGROUND CONSTRUCTION - Wilkes Recovery Revolution Inc
FUNDING TO PROVIDE PEER SUPPORT SERVICES / MATCHING GRANT FOR ANNUAL OPERATING SUPPORT / WILKES FRESH MOBILE MARKET FUNDING - Wilkes Recovery Revolution
FUNDING TO PROVIDE PEER SUPPORT SERVICES - Wilkes County Schools
GRANT MADE TO PURCHASE ITEMS NEEDED BY UNDERSERVED STUDENTS. MATCHING GRANT FOR ANNUAL FUNDRAISING EVENT. PARTIAL FUNDING FOR PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT. PARTIAL FUNDING FOR ATHLETIC TRACK PAVING. PARTIAL FUNDING FOR CREATION OF A SENSORY GARDEN. - Wilkes County Health Department
FUNDING FOR INCREASED ACCESS TO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS/ MATCHING GRANT FOR ANNUAL OPERATING SUPPORT / DIABETES PREVENTION FUNDING / FRESH FOOD VOUCHER FUNDING - Safe Spot Child Advocacy Center of Wilkes
MATCHING GRANT FOR ANNUAL OPERATING SUPPORT / OPERATIONAL SUPPORT TO OPERATE THE CHILD ADVOCACY PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 29 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 | 21 | $387,527 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 26 | $418,981 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 14 | $374,933 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 20 | $977,490 | $16,986 |
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
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 $12,281 -- 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 The 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 20 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 667, North Wilkesboro, NC, 28659.
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