Funding search · EIN 830590696 · Asheville, NC

Dogwood Health Trust

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

1,824
grants reported
$301.3M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$60,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • Hurricane Helene recovery across Western North Carolina counties
  • Affordable housing development, repairs, and tenant assistance in WNC
  • Safety net clinics, FQHCs, and general operating for health providers
  • Small business lending, capital access, and entrepreneur technical assistance
  • Early childhood workforce retention and community college career pathways
  • Food access, food banks, and regional food hub capacity

Typical grant

Median grant is $60,000 and the middle half runs $18,000 to $155,000, so most of the 1,824 grants are modest. The very large checks, $1 million to $21 million, go to intermediaries that redeploy capital: community foundations, loan funds, CDFIs, and regional health systems. Repeat giving is common, with Mountain Housing Opportunities, Impact Health, Pisgah Legal Services, Community Action Opportunities, and MAHEC each appearing several times in a single year for different purposes.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
  • POST-HURRICANE HELENE
  • WNC
  • SAFETY NET
  • CAPACITY BUILDING
  • LOW-INCOME

Positioning adjacent work

  • Name specific WNC counties served. Grants list them explicitly: 'eight WNC counties,' 'Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey.'
  • Ask $150,000 to $350,000 for a defined project unless you are a capital intermediary.
  • Tie research to their funded themes: opioid settlement planning, older adult outcomes, health policy consortium, trauma resilience.
  • Frame as operating or capacity support rather than a discrete study. They fund organizations, not just projects.

Worth knowing: This is a place-based funder: 1,773 of 1,824 grants went to North Carolina, almost entirely the western counties, and the few out-of-state grants (Health Resources in Action, Project HOPE, Community Reinvestment Fund) all deliver services or research back into WNC. Since Helene in late 2024, disaster recovery framing runs through nearly every large grant, and a small set of Asheville-based intermediaries absorbs a disproportionate share of the dollars.

13 grants matching “public health · $1.7M

  • $96,570

    Western Carolina University · Cullowhee, NC · 2024

    Collaborative public university research on health outcomes in western north carolina.

  • $91,788

    Appalachian State University · Boone, NC · 2024

    Collaborative public university research on health outcomes in western north carolina.

  • $88,440

    The University of North Carolina at Asheville · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Place-based public university research on social drivers of health in western north carolina.

  • $50,000

    Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians · Cherokee, NC · 2024

    General operating support for public health services related to medicaid expansion.

  • $445,000

    Buncombe County · Asheville, NC · 2022

    This grant would aid buncombe county's efforts to improve public health outcomes for justice-involved individuals by proven methods of linking reentry planning and community care, including peer support in care, and see read all
  • $284,949

    Muddy Sneakers · Brevard, NC · 2022

    This project would enable the clay county community paramedic program to increase the number of easily accessible services that they are able to offer the community and fully utilize the new mobile public health outreac read all
  • $173,845

    University of North Carolina Asheville · Asheville, NC · 2022

    This project aims to work within unc asheville and five other wnc residential institutions of higher education to support mental health and wellbeing among students, ihe employees and their communities and also to expan read all
  • $150,000

    Mountain Area Health Education Center · Asheville, NC · 2022

    This grant will support mahec to enable continuation of the coordinated covid response across wnc through their current vaccine acceleration consortium that meets bi-weekly and brings a group of over 75 public health, h read all
  • $105,000

    North Carolina Alliance for Health · Durham, NC · 2022

    Additional grant to fund a wnc educator and funds for public education efforts regarding the issues pertaining to the the nc health insurance gap in wnc.

  • $88,000

    North Carolina Alliance for Health · Durham, NC · 2022

    This project aims to fund a wnc educator and funds for public education efforts regarding the issues pertaining to the the nc health insurance gap in wnc and the opportunities for increased health and wellness with the read all
  • $67,000

    Clay County · Hayesville, NC · 2022

    This project would enable the clay county community paramedic program to increase the number of easily accessible services that they are able to offer the community and fully utilize the new mobile public health outreac read all
  • $31,860

    Jackson County Department of Public Health · Sylva, NC · 2022

    This project will support jackson public health's outreach programs by enabling the continuation of their transportation services and allowing for the transport of supplies for various health and childcare needs and eve read all
  • $18,000

    Wnc Health Network · Asheville, NC · 2022

    This grant will allow wnc health network to perform a study that will help them apply their key learnings and collaborative approach to other priority health issues in our region, such as mental health, substance misuse read all

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation1 grant · $21.0M
  • The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina4 grants · $11.2M
  • Impact Health5 grants · $11.2M
  • Self-Help Ventures Fund2 grants · $8.4M
  • Pisgah Legal Services7 grants · $7.2M
  • Mountain Area Health Education Center10 grants · $5.5M
  • The Givens Estates6 grants · $4.3M
  • Mountain Housing Opportunities4 grants · $3.7M
  • Land of Sky Regional Council26 grants · $3.6M
  • Helpmate5 grants · $3.2M

Giving over time

$73.8M
2022
$79.3M
2023
$148.2M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,824 grants.

  • $21.0M

    Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation · Christiansburg, VA · 2024

    Small business recovery grants and low-cost capital post-helene.

  • $10.0M

    The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Emergency and disaster response grant funding for post-hurricane recovery across dht footprint.

  • $8.0M

    Self-Help Ventures Fund · Durham, NC · 2024

    Loan fund to support affordable housing in wnc.

  • $4.6M

    Impact Health · Asheville, NC · 2023

    Healthy opportunities pilot support

  • $4.0M

    Impact Health · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Emergency funding for health service organizations.

  • $4.0M

    Mountain Area Health Education Center · Asheville, NC · 2024

    General operating support for mahec clinical services.

  • $3.0M

    Pisgah Legal Services · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Legal and navigation services for disaster survivors.

  • $3.0M

    Helpmate · Asheville, NC · 2022

    This grant will support helpmate with construction costs related to their emergency shelter expansion project.

  • $3.0M

    The Givens Estates · Asheville, NC · 2022

    The funds are the critical first piece of a process to redevelop the former clinchfield mill into affordable senior housing in marion.

  • $2.2M

    Blue Ridge Community Health Services · Hendersonville, NC · 2024

    General operating support for regional safety net health services in ten wnc counties.

  • $2.1M

    Pisgah Legal Services · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Regional aca enrollment and tax credit support for low-income households.

  • $2.0M

    County of Transylvania · Brevard, NC · 2022

    This grant will support transylvania county in leveraging american rescue plan act (arpa) funds for planning and infrastructure for affordable housing and business attraction and creation.

  • $2.0M

    Pisgah Legal Services · Asheville, NC · 2023

    Wnc pandemic recovery program: improving and sustaining the health and income of wnc.

  • $2.0M

    Buncombe County Partnership for Children · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Workforce retention and operation support for early childhood providers after hurricane helene.

  • $2.0M

    Manna Food Bank · Mills River, NC · 2024

    Emergency funding for food access recovery efforts post-helene.

  • $2.0M

    Mountain Housing Opportunities · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Affordable housing development in buncombe county.

  • $2.0M

    Haywood Street Community Development · Asheville, NC · 2023

    Deeply affordable housing.

  • $1.6M

    City of Asheville · Asheville, NC · 2022

    Fully fund arpa project requests to the city of asheville for habitat for humanity, "improving equity and resiliency through affordable homeownership and asheville buncombe community christian ministry, "providing perma read all
  • $1.5M

    Wnc Communities · Asheville, NC · 2024

    General operating support.

  • $1.5M

    County of Swain · Bryson City, NC · 2022

    Creating two mile forced main sewer lift station to accommodate building development in the ela district (phase i) of swain county.

  • $1.3M

    Mountain Projects · Waynesville, NC · 2023

    Construction workforce pipeline partnership.

  • $1.2M

    Impact Health · Asheville, NC · 2023

    Sustainability, innovation, and capacity building for human service organizations.

  • $1.2M

    Tri-County Community College Foundation · Murphy, NC · 2024

    Construction workforce program for student-built homes in cherokee county.

  • $1.1M

    Haywood County · Waynesville, NC · 2022

    This grant, in combination with local resources, will support haywood county to fund 3 distinct projects with partners whom they select and determine and whose work will impact affordable housing across the county, with read all
  • $1.1M

    Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Foundation · Asheville, NC · 2022

    This grant will support asheville buncombe technical community college and project counterbalance. Funds will be used to support underserved students. 2nd payment

  • $1.1M

    Mountain Bizworks · Asheville, NC · 2022

    This grant will support mountain bizcapital, inc. In providing technical assistance and access to capital for low-income entrepreneurs who are unable to receive funding from traditional financial institutions due to lac read all
  • $1.1M

    Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Foundation · Asheville, NC · 2022

    This grant will support asheville buncombe technical community college and project counterbalance. Funds will be used to support underserved students. 1st payment

  • $1.1M

    Northwestern Housing Enterprises · Boone, NC · 2022

    This grant would help northwestern housing enterprises provide better coursing conditions in yancey county (particularly for the low-income elderly and disabled), which currently can be very poor and have deleterious ef read all
  • $1.0M

    Amy Wellness Foundation · Spruce Pine, NC · 2024

    Recovery support funding focused in avery, mitchell, and yancey counties.

  • $1.0M

    Centralina Foundation · Charlotte, NC · 2024

    Technical assistance for fema assessments and applications across five regional councils of government.

  • $1.0M

    Community Reinvestment Fund · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    General operating support for small business disaster recovery lending.

  • $1.0M

    Gateway Wellness Foundation · Marion, NC · 2024

    Recovery support funding for burke, mcdowell, polk, and rutherford counties.

  • $1.0M

    Henderson County · Hendersonville, NC · 2024

    Match funding for affordable housing development in henderson county.

  • $1.0M

    Mountain Bizcapital · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Administrative expenses support for small business lending programs.

  • $1.0M

    United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Incorporated · Asheville, NC · 2024

    General operating support.

  • $1.0M

    Wnc Bridge Foundation · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Direct cash transfers for low-income residents impacted by hurricane helene.

  • $1.0M

    United Way of Haywood County · Waynesville, NC · 2023

    Provide financial assistance to individuals and families in need or distressed as a direct result of the canton mill closure.

  • $1.0M

    Mountain Housing Opportunities · Asheville, NC · 2022

    The applicant has clarified the request to meet safe harbor requirements and the affordable unit mixture will now include 51 homes sold to households at or below 80% ami and 17 homes that will be unrestricted.

  • $984,110

    The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Capacity building program for twenty nonprofits via training, consulting, and operating support.

  • $975,000

    United Way of Asheville & Buncombe County · Asheville, NC · 2022

    This grant will support united way of asheville & buncombe county in the operation of 7 community schools and the expansion into 2 additional schools, including community school coordinators, contracts with partner orga read all
  • $944,663

    Community Action Opportunities · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Hvac infrastructure support for weatherization program across multiple wnc counties.

  • $925,200

    Mountain Housing Opportunities · Asheville, NC · 2024

    General operating support for tenant assistance post-hurricane helene.

  • $900,000

    Northwestern Housing Enterprises · Boone, NC · 2023

    Small homes and workforce housing; spruce pine.

  • $880,000

    Mountain Community Health Partnership Incorporated · Bakersville, NC · 2024

    General operating support for fqhc serving yancey and mitchell counties.

  • $850,000

    Impact Health · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Development of clinically integrated primary care network for medicaid, medicare and underserved populations in wnc.

  • $847,500

    High Country Community Health · Morganton, NC · 2024

    General operating support for community health centers serving four wnc counties.

  • $831,164

    Southwestern Child Development Commission · Webster, NC · 2022

    This grant will support southwestern child development commission in continued design and operation of an apprenticeship nc program focused on early childhood educators.

  • $818,028

    Rural Economic Development Center · Raleigh, NC · 2023

    Collaborative broadband initiative.

  • $812,500

    Western North Carolina Community Health Services · Asheville, NC · 2024

    General operating support for fqhc serving buncombe and mcdowell counties.

  • $793,500

    Smart Start Partnership for Children · Hendersonville, NC · 2022

    This grant will support smart start partnership for children in leading a regional cohort of smart start local partnerships as they plan and implement a regional resilience project.

  • $769,207

    Clay County · Hayesville, NC · 2024

    Ems operations and training center construction in clay county.

  • $750,000

    Mountain Housing Opportunities · Asheville, NC · 2024

    General operating support for affordable housing development in eight wnc counties.

  • $750,000

    Wnc Communities · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Emergency funding for community organizations.

  • $750,000

    The Givens Estates · Asheville, NC · 2022

    Givens estates is an experienced, competent developer of senior affordable housing and have responded to invitations from our organization to expand their scope across our region.

  • $737,500

    Appalachian Mountain Community Health Centers · Asheville, NC · 2024

    General operating support for fqhc serving vulnerable populations in five counties.

  • $700,000

    Isothermal Planning & Development Commission · Rutherfordton, NC · 2024

    Workforce and business recovery support through multi-agency staffing expansion.

  • $700,000

    Northwestern Housing Enterprises · Boone, NC · 2023

    Connections at riverwalk support.

  • $681,415

    Western Carolina Community Action · Hendersonville, NC · 2024

    Early intervention and affordable housing repairs for low-income families.

  • $670,079

    Manna Food Bank · Mills River, NC · 2024

    Usda food distribution and delivery fee waivers for regional pantries.

  • $665,229

    Mountain Housing Opportunities · Asheville, NC · 2022

    This portion of the project investment is structured as a grant to maintain the financial health of their project of creating units to serve a great number of low-income households in buncombe county outside of the trad read all
  • $660,000

    McDowell Technical Community College · Marion, NC · 2022

    This grant will provide funds for personnel, scholarships, curriculum, professional to support mtcc in making the childcare center on campus more robust in terms of curriculum, capacity, and ability to impact mtcc ece s read all
  • $650,500

    Community Action Opportunities · Asheville, NC · 2023

    Boosting early childhood education through increasing teachers numbers.

  • $650,000

    Housing Assistance Corporation · Hendersonville, NC · 2022

    The applicant has developed a reasonable set of development scenarios that will result in the significant production of affordable rental, for-sale, and potentially supportive housing units at a site proximate to hender read all
  • $628,001

    Montreat College · Montreat, NC · 2022

    This grant will support montreat colleges carolina cyber center program that targets low-income, unemployed and underemployed individuals throughout our region.

  • $627,719

    North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2022

    This grant will support nc state university's efforts to improve western north carolinas ability to learn, work, get health care, expand economic development and improve its quality of life through the significant incre read all
  • $622,996

    Western Carolina University · Cullowhee, NC · 2022

    The purpose of this grant is to support wcu in creating and implementing an accelerated ece program track and providing supplemental supports to students in order to recruit, retain, and scaffold ece workforce.

  • $617,697

    The Enola Group · Morganton, NC · 2022

    This grant will give the enola group funds for staff, training materials and supplies, supplemental pay for participating ece teachers and directors, and pay for participating students, supporting their efforts to recru read all
  • $600,000

    County of Jackson · Sylva, NC · 2024

    Child welfare judicial awareness and emergency foster care housing projects in jackson county.

  • $600,000

    Discover Church Ministries · Franklin, NC · 2023

    Hope house of franklin.

  • $600,000

    Communities in School of North Carolina · Raleigh, NC · 2022

    This grant will support communities in schools of north carolina (cisnc) in their efforts to provide supports to at-risk and justice-involved students to help them continue their education, gain post-secondary education read all
  • $600,000

    Ymca of Avery County · Linville, NC · 2022

    This grant will provide 10% of the total funds for the capital campaign to build and equip a ymca in mitchell county, which will in turn provide year-round aftercare and summer programming for low-income youth, dowing p read all
  • $594,515

    The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

    Capacity building for food hubs and nonprofits to advance health equity in wnc.

  • $592,080

    Mountain Projects · Waynesville, NC · 2022

    Participation in a lihtc project will renew mountain projects eligibility to pursue the funds as a stand alone entity and could bring more housing (and housing resources) to the counties they serve over the long term.

  • $574,198

    Appalachian Community Capital Corporation · Christiansburg, VA · 2023

    Wnc technology transformation for capital impact acceleration.

  • $570,000

    Mountain Bizworks · Asheville, NC · 2022

    To provide access to capital to under-fueled entrepreneurs by funding mountain bizworks rural small business expansion and cre lending program.

  • $563,684

    McDowell Technical Community College · Marion, NC · 2023

    A place in mcdowell.

  • $563,500

    Colaborativa La Milpa · Asheville, NC · 2023

    Emma neighborhood revitalization project.

  • $550,000

    Transylvania Habitat for Humanity · Brevard, NC · 2023

    Rosenwald neighborhood revitalization project.

  • $545,000

    Smart Start Partnership for Children · Hendersonville, NC · 2023

    Smart start western regional resiliency.

  • $528,308

    Ymi Cultural Center · Asheville, NC · 2023

    Ymi capital and capacity development project.

  • $528,200

    Land of Sky Regional Council · Asheville, NC · 2023

    Expanding digital opportunities in wnc.

  • $517,000

    Thread Capital · Raleigh, NC · 2022

    This grant will support thread capital with the project entitled, accelerating thread capital's impact in western nc.

  • $500,000

    Asheville-Buncombe Community Christian Ministry · Arden, NC · 2024

    General operating support for homeless shelter and disaster recovery.

  • $500,000

    Baptist Children'S Homes of North Carolina · Clyde, NC · 2024

    Supportive housing acquisition and renovation for unhoused wcu students.

  • $500,000

    Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina · Asheville, NC · 2024

    General operating support.

  • $500,000

    Housing Assistance Corporation · Hendersonville, NC · 2024

    General operating support for affordable housing in henderson, polk, and transylvania counties.

  • $500,000

    Impact Health · Asheville, NC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $500,000

    Madison County Public Schools · Marshall, NC · 2024

    Heavy equipment operator apprenticeship program for madison county students.

  • $500,000

    St Gerard House · Hendersonville, NC · 2024

    General operating support for autism services and community education efforts across wnc.

  • $500,000

    Tzedek Social Justice Fund · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Community led grantmaking and helene relief fund program

  • $500,000

    United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Incorporated · Asheville, NC · 2024

    General operating support for staffing and grant matching.

  • $500,000

    United Way of North Carolina · Cary, NC · 2024

    Disaster relief funding through regional united way affiliates.

  • $500,000

    Vecinos · Franklin, NC · 2024

    General operating support for disaster-impacted health clinic launch and service continuity.

  • $500,000

    Ywca of Asheville and Western North Carolina · Asheville, NC · 2024

    Program support to maintain service delivery capacity post-disaster.

  • $500,000

    Clay County · Hayesville, NC · 2023

    To assist with a purchase of property related to child placement.

  • $500,000

    Haywood Community College · Clyde, NC · 2023

    Grant writer assistance.

  • $500,000

    North Carolina School for the Deaf at Morganton Foundation · Morganton, NC · 2023

    Alder springs housing expansion.

  • $500,000

    United Way of Asheville & Buncombe County · Asheville, NC · 2023

    Capacity building towards an equity centered collective impact strategy.

  • $500,000

    Wnc Bridge Foundation · Asheville, NC · 2023

    Shiloh community revitalization.

  • $500,000

    Graham County · Robbinsville, NC · 2022

    This grant will support graham county's low-income homebuilding and repair program by assisting with the cost of construction and providing a model that can be demonstrated when applying for future grant funds.

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