Funding search · EIN 261346239 · Boone, NC
Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge
A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.
- 85
- grants reported
- $1.0M
- total given
- 2022–2025
- filing years
- $14,929
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Funding pattern
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Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Community Care Clinic5 grants · $70,500
- Pisgah Legal Services4 grants · $60,000
- Ashe Food Pantry4 grants · $60,000
- Western Youth Network4 grants · $60,000
- Hospitality House5 grants · $60,000
- Oasis4 grants · $60,000
- Hunger and Health Coalition3 grants · $45,000
- Quiet Givers3 grants · $43,000
- Blowing Rock Cares3 grants · $42,750
- Wamy Community Action3 grants · $42,000
Giving over time
Grant history
All 85 reported grants, largest first.
- $15,000
Ashe County Habitat · West Jefferson, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Ashe Food Pantry · Jefferson, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Ashe Outreach Ministries · Creston, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Blowing Rock Cares · Blowing Rock, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Care Network · Jefferson, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Childrens Council of Watauga County · Boone, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Community Care Clinic · Boone, NC · 2025
Health & Wellness
- $15,000
High Country Caregivers · Boone, NC · 2025
Health & Wellness
- $15,000
High Country Paws · Deep Gap, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Hospitality House · Boone, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Hunger and Health Coalition · Boone, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Oasis · Boone, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Pisgah Legal Services · Asheville, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Quiet Givers · Boone, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Wamy Community Action · Boone, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Watauga Schools Back 2 School Festival · Boone, NC · 2025
Education
- $15,000
Western Youth Network · Boone, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $15,000
Ashe Food Pantry · Jefferson, NC · 2024
Operation Backpack
- $15,000
Care Network · Jefferson, NC · 2024
Housing
- $15,000
Community Care Clinic · Boone, NC · 2024
Making Smiles/Vision
- $15,000
Community Care Clinic · Boone, NC · 2024
Mental Health and Vision Care
- $15,000
Hospitality House · Boone, NC · 2024
We Can/Emergency Shelter
- $15,000
Hunger and Health Coalition · Boone, NC · 2024
Food is Medicine
- $15,000
Oasis · Boone, NC · 2024
Shelter
- $15,000
Pisgah Legal Services · Asheville, NC · 2024
Legal Services
- $15,000
Quiet Givers · Boone, NC · 2024
Assistance
- $15,000
Western Youth Network · Boone, NC · 2024
Trauma
- $15,000
Ashe Food Pantry · Jefferson, NC · 2023
food pantry grant
- $15,000
Ashe Habitat for Humanity · West Jefferson, NC · 2023
Provide drinking water for three families
- $15,000
Hunger and Health Coalition · Boone, NC · 2023
Supporting local farmers and providing fresh produce to food insecure Wataugans
- $15,000
Oasis · Boone, NC · 2023
Emergency shelter program
- $15,000
Pisgah Legal Services · Asheville, NC · 2023
Legal Services for Women and Children in Avery County
- $15,000
Western Youth Network · Boone, NC · 2023
Wellbeing for Young Women
- $15,000
Ashe Food Pantry · Jefferson, NC · 2022
Operation Backpack
- $15,000
Community Care Clinic · Boone, NC · 2022
Making Smiles/Vision
- $15,000
Hospitality House · Boone, NC · 2022
WeCan/Emergency Shelter
- $15,000
Hunger & Health Coalition · Boone, NC · 2022
Food is Medicine
- $15,000
Oasis · Boone, NC · 2022
Shelter
- $15,000
Pisgah Legal Services · Asheville, NC · 2022
Legal Services
- $15,000
Safe Harbor · Boone, NC · 2022
Day Center
- $15,000
Wamy Community Action · Boone, NC · 2022
Housing
- $15,000
Western Youth Network · Boone, NC · 2022
Trauma
- $14,929
The Children'S Playhouse · Boone, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $14,000
Blowing Rock Cares · Blowing Rock, NC · 2024
Food Pantry
- $13,750
Blowing Rock Cares · Blowing Rock, NC · 2023
Providing nonperishable food to families who are at risk for food insecurity.
- $13,500
Children'S Council · Boone, NC · 2022
Family Support Program
- $13,000
Quiet Givers · Boone, NC · 2023
Fill gaps for basic human dignity needs, including food, funds, health, shelter, safety, transportation and education.
- $13,000
Wamy · Boone, NC · 2023
Performing critical home repairs for low-income households
- $12,500
High Country Givers · Boone, NC · 2023
Kinship Navigation/Learning Shack- builds self-sufficiency, sense of purpose, aspiration for success
- $12,500
Casting for Hope · Morganton, NC · 2022
Here for You
- $12,500
High Country Caregivers · Boone, NC · 2022
Kinship
- $12,000
High Country Caregivers · Boone, NC · 2024
Kinship
- $12,000
Wamy Community Action · Boone, NC · 2024
Housing
- $10,500
New Opportunity School for Women · Banner Elk, NC · 2024
Summer Program
- $10,500
Community Care Clinic · Boone, NC · 2023
Vision ($5,000) & Mental Health ($5,500) Aims to help women create motivation and readiness for behavioral change
- $10,500
New Opportunity School for Women · Banner Elk, NC · 2023
Three week residential program to empower women and help them break out of the cycle ofpoverty, abuse and/or addiction
- $10,000
Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture · Boone, NC · 2025
Health & Wellness
- $10,000
Partnership of Ashe · Jefferson, NC · 2025
Education
- $10,000
Young Eisner Scholars (Yes) · Inglewood, CA · 2025
Education
- $10,000
Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture · Boone, NC · 2024
Double up Food Bucks
- $10,000
Watauga Habitat for Humanity · Boone, NC · 2024
Housing
- $10,000
Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture · Boone, NC · 2023
Double Up Food Bucks- Program to double the amount those with food needs can buy at Farmer's Market
- $10,000
Care Network · Jefferson, NC · 2023
Provides immediate assistance for electrical and heating emergencies while teaching budgeting and financial skills to empower women.
- $10,000
Back2school · Boone, NC · 2022
Back2School Festival
- $10,000
Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture · Boone, NC · 2022
Double up Food Bucks
- $10,000
New Opportunity School · Banner Elk, NC · 2022
Summer Program
- $9,000
Crossnore Communities for Children · Crossnore, NC · 2024
Trauma
- $8,500
Hospitality House · Boone, NC · 2023
Temporary Housing for women/children, many due to domestic abuse cases.
- $8,400
Casting Bread · Blowing Rock, NC · 2022
Food Pantry
- $7,500
Mountain Alliance · Boone, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $7,500
Reaching Avery Ministries · Newland, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $7,500
Mountain Alliance · Boone, NC · 2024
Lift
- $7,500
Reaching Avery Ministries · Newland, NC · 2024
Emergency Special Needs
- $7,500
Young Eisner Scholars (Yes) · Inglewood, CA · 2024
Scholarship Programs
- $7,500
Reaching Avery Ministry · Newland, NC · 2023
Emergency Special Needs
- $7,500
Reaching Avery Ministries · Newland, NC · 2022
Emergency Special Needs
- $7,500
Watauga Habitat for Humanity · Boone, NC · 2022
Housing
- $7,000
Buffalo Cove Outdoor Education · Deep Gap, NC · 2025
Education
- $7,000
Mountain Alliance · Boone, NC · 2023
Leadership Initiative for Female Teens
- $7,000
Mountain Alliance · Boone, NC · 2022
Lift
- $6,500
Hospitality House · Boone, NC · 2023
Emergency Shelter and ultimately permanent housing to individuals and families in need
- $6,000
Full Moon Farm Collective · Deep Gap, NC · 2025
Human Services
- $6,000
Partnership of Ashe · Jefferson, NC · 2024
Family Foundations
- $6,000
Crossnore Communities for Children · Crossnore, NC · 2023
Provide supplementary resources for girls in foster care. Expenses outside of base necessitites to offer enrichment.
- $6,000
Partnership of Ashe · Jefferson, NC · 2022
Family Foundations
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