GrantmakersNorth Carolina

Impact Health

Asheville, NC · EIN 84-3954696. Reported 178 grants totalling $24.6M to 78 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

78organizations funded
$117,893median reported grant
$24.6Mgranted, 2022-2024
94%of grantees funded again the next year
4%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Impact Health, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 78 distinct organizations, with 4% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 94% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $117,893. Half of what it reported fell between $76,036 and $185,285; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $734,961. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
17 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
44 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
87 grants
$250,000 Or More
22 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Toe River Aggregation Center Training Organization Regional IncSpruce Pine, NC$1,080,434332024
Bounty & SoulBlack Mtn, NC$853,346332024
Burke United Christian MinistriesMorganton, NC$781,443332024
Mountain Projects IncWaynesville, NC$735,986332024
Interfaith Assistance Ministry IncHendersonvlle, NC$719,921332024
Land of Sky Regional CouncilAsheville, NC$702,778332024
Caja SolidariaMills River, NC$687,948332024
Young Men Christian Association of Western North CarolinaAsheville, NC$617,061332024
Hinton Rural Life Center IncHayesville, NC$592,760332024
Pisgah Legal ServicesAsheville, NC$583,407332024
Legal Aid of North Carolina IncRaleigh, NC$576,932222024
Four-Square Community Action IncAndrews, NC$548,014332024
Macon Program for Progress IncFranklin, NC$544,465332024
Haywood Christian Ministry IncWaynesville, NC$541,095332024
Hights IncCullowhee, NC$540,182332024
Asheville-Buncombe Community Christian Ministry IncArden, NC$525,868332024
Five Point Center IncRobbinsville, NC$506,574332024
Mcdowell LfacMarion, NC$486,880332024
Eliada Homes IncAsheville, NC$485,822332024
Asheville-Buncombe Institute of Parity AchievementAsheville, NC$470,188332024
W4H AshevilleAsheville, NC$415,363332024
Mountain Housing Opportunities IncAsheville, NC$407,688332024
Dayspring Foundation Formerly Eleanor Health FoundationWaltham, ME$401,622332024
First Methodist Church of WaynesvilleWaynesville, NC$401,053332024
Western North Carolina Community Health Services IncAsheville, NC$396,114332024
Community Housing Coalition of Madison County IncMarshall, NC$383,665332024
Housing Assistance CorporationHendersonvlle, NC$381,875332024
Eden of AbundanceSpindale, NC$376,689332024
Wegiveashare IncAsheville, NC$364,462332024
Neighbors Feeding Neighbors Food MinistryErwin, TN$360,316332024
Reinvestment PartnersDurham, NC$359,020332024
C2LIFE FoundationMorganton, NC$351,889332024
Big Ivy Community ClubBarnardsville, NC$351,850332024
Rutherford Housing Partnership IncForest City, NC$350,827332024
Young Mens Christian Association of Avery County IncLinville, NC$336,297332024
Blue Ridge Women in AgricultureBoone, NC$325,329332024
Sixth Avenue Psychiatricrehabilitation Partners IncHendersonvlle, NC$308,581332024
Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County IncHendersonvlle, NC$295,333332024
Manna Food BankMills River, NC$287,744222024
Beacon of Hope ServicesMarshall, NC$284,402222024
Eblen CharitiesAsheville, NC$253,391332024
New Hope of McdowellMarion, NC$252,027332024
Tryon Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchCharlotte, NC$251,381332024
Resources Education Assistance Counseling and Housing of MaconFranklin, NC$249,766332024
Southern Reconciliation Ministries IncBurnsville, NC$231,485222024
Haywood Street CongregationAsheville, NC$218,641332024
Haywood Pathways CenterWaynesville, NC$202,066332024
Western Carolina Community Action IncHendersonvlle, NC$200,094332024
Gateway Wellness FoundationMarion, NC$197,300112024
Restoration House - WncBryson City, NC$185,821112024
Mission Ministries AllianceMarion, NC$185,285112024
Shelter Available for Family Emer- Gency Safe Inc of Transylvania CtyBrevard, NC$179,997222024
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture ProjectAsheville, NC$159,733332024
Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina IncAsheville, NC$157,128112024
Safelight IncHendersonville, NC$156,527222024
Transylvania Habitat for Humanity IncBrevard, NC$155,000222024
Wnc From the Ground UpSylva, NC$150,207112024
Wnc Lighthouse IncBryson City, NC$149,405112024
Helpmate IncAsheville, NC$148,464222024
Giving Spoon IncBryson City, NC$145,742222023
Smart Start of Transylvania CountyBrevard, NC$145,670222024
Our Voice IncAsheville, NC$127,335112024
Centro Unido Latino AmericanoMarion, NC$113,000112024
Mountain Community Health Partnership IncorporatedBakersville, NC$110,000112024
Trinity United Methodist Church of Asheville North CarolinaAsheville, NC$110,000112024
Operation Gateway IncAsheville, NC$85,000112024
United Way of Rutherford County IncSpindale, NC$64,000112024
UneteCanton, NC$60,000112024
Hendersonville Pediatrics PaHendersonville, NC$49,735112024
Beacon of Hope ServicesMarshall, NC$45,000112022
Mountain Area Health Education Center IncAsheville, NC$35,000112024
Mountain Area Pediatric Associates PaAsheville, NC$22,275112024
Asheville Pediatric Associates PaAsheville, NC$21,244112024
Abc Pediatrics of Asheville PaAsheville, NC$18,270112024
Haywood Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine Group PaClyde, NC$17,343112024
Mother Earth Food IncAsheville, NC$16,000112024
The Hunger and Health Coalition IncBoone, NC$15,000112022
French Broad PediatricsAsheville, NC$13,641112024

55 of 78 (71%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 51 of 78 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.

Human Services
15 orgs
Food & Nutrition
9 orgs
Housing & Shelter
5 orgs
Mental Health
4 orgs
Community Improvement
3 orgs
Health Care
3 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 orgs
Crime & Legal
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202251$6,868,665$113,850
202352$8,069,572$139,512
202475$9,680,959$110,000

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

97% 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.

North Carolina
$23.9M
Maine
$402K
Tennessee
$360K

Down to the city

Asheville, NC
$5.8M
Hendersonvlle, NC
$1.9M
Waynesville, NC
$1.9M
Marion, NC
$1.2M
Morganton, NC
$1.1M
Spruce Pine, NC
$1.1M

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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.

Dogwood Health Trust58 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation50 shared recipientsWnc Bridge Foundation46 shared recipientsManna Food Bank Inc28 shared recipientsThe Cannon Foundation Inc27 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund27 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $117,893 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
  4. 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Impact Health'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 77 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: 866 Hendersonville Rd, Asheville, NC, 28803.

EIN 84-3954696 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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