Wilkes Medical Center Foundation
North Wilkesboro, NC · EIN 82-2345613. Reported 49 grants totalling $2,454,238 to 33 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 Wilkes Medical Center Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for health care (NTEE E12).
- How spread out its giving is. 33 distinct organizations, with 22% 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. 28% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $24,023. Half of what it reported fell between $14,000 and $46,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $466,726. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrmc Hospital Operating Corporation | N Wilkesboro, NC | $527,848 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Recovery Revolution | N Wilkesboro, NC | $342,153 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Town of North Wilkesboro | North Wilkesboro, NC | $310,715 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Faithhealth Innovations Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $214,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wilkes Dental Consortium | N Wilkesboro, NC | $180,370 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Carenet Counseling of Wilkes Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $117,988 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $112,357 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Samaritan Kitchen of Wilkes Inc | Wilkesboro, NC | $101,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wilkes County Public Schools | North Wilkesboro, NC | $48,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Foothills Free Medical Clinic | Wilkesboro, NC | $46,318 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wilkes Comm College Health Scienc | Wilkesboro, NC | $46,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Wilkes Rescue Squad Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $46,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boomer Ferguson Elementary PTO | Boomer, NC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thankful Community Club Inc | Boomer, NC | $32,962 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shepherds Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department | Roaring River, NC | $26,714 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wilkes Youth Life Development Inc | Moravian Fls, NC | $25,708 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Safe Spot Child Advocacy Center of Wilkes | Wilkesboro, NC | $25,302 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cricket Volunteer Fire and Rescue | North Wilkesboro, NC | $24,023 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Catherine H Barber Memorial Shelter Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Yadkin River Greenway Council | N Wilkesboro, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Adult Enrichment Services of Wilkes | N Wilkesboro, NC | $15,675 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Millers Creek Elementary PTO | Millers Creek, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Town of Wilkesboro Fire Department | Wilkesboro, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Traphill Volunteer Fire Department Inc | Traphill, NC | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Millers Creek Volunteer Fire Department Inc | Millers Creek, NC | $12,900 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brushy Mountains Group Homes Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $11,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ronda Community Vol Fire Dept Inc | Ronda, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Child Abuse Prevention Team of Wilkes County | Wilkesboro, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wilkes Crisis Pregnancy Center | N Wilkesboro, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina | Winston Salem, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Echo Ministry | Elkin, NC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wilkes Literacy Inc | N Wilkesboro, NC | $7,005 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wilkes Day Care Association Inc | Wilkesboro, NC | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
11 of 33 (33%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Wilkes Recovery Revolution Inc
INTEGRATING PEER SUPPORT AT AHWFB-WILKES MEDICAL CENTER - Town of North Wilkesboro
FUNDING FOR POOL AND DIVING WELL RENOVATION AT SMOOT PARK - Wilkes Dental Consortium Inc
TO PROVIDE DENTAL SERVICES FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED - Faithhealth Innovations
TO SUPPORT WRMC'S PATIENT ASSISTANCE FUND - Samaritan Kitchen of Wilkes Inc
TO FEED THE HUNGRY AND FOOD INSUFFICIENT BY PROVIDING A FOOD PANTRY - Boomer Ferguson Elementary PTO
FUNDING FOR PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 14 | $472,982 | $19,000 |
| 2021 | 6 | $298,091 | $29,361 |
| 2022 | 9 | $339,458 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 9 | $529,359 | $25,708 |
| 2024 | 11 | $814,348 | $25,000 |
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 $24,023 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Wilkes Medical Center Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 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: 1370 West D Street, North Wilkesboro, NC, 28659.
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