Affiliate Funds
Black Mountain - Swannanoa Valley Endowment Fund Cashiers Community Fund The Fund For Haywood County Highlands Community Fund The McDowell Endowment The Fund for Mitchell County Rutherford County Endowment Transylvania Endowment The Yancey Fund
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Browse Affiliates Funds
Black Mountain - Swannanoa Valley Endowment Fund Cashiers Community Fund The Fund For Haywood County Highlands Community Fund The McDowell Endowment The Fund for Mitchell County Rutherford County Endowment Transylvania Endowment The Yancey Fund
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Recent Grants

  • American Rivers
    WNC Region
    Grant Amount: $150,000 over two years
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to build a queue of ready-to-fund dam removal projects leading to design and implementation stages of river restoration efforts.
  • Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
    WNC Region
    Grant Amount: $50,000
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to support collaborative efforts to analyze land connected to the biologically-rich Blue Ridge Parkway to help prioritize landowner outreach and voluntary land conservation.
  • Camp Grier
    McDowell
    Grant Amount: $44,000
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to build out a Salesforce customer relationship management system necessary to manage volunteers, donors, customers, and partners and thereby increase constituent engagement and stewardship of public lands in WNC.
  • Haywood Waterways Association
    Haywood
    Grant Amount: $8,500
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to engage Taproot Consulting for strategic planning.
  • Mainspring Conservation Trust
    Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Swain, Jackson, and Macon
    Grant Amount: $8,500
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to engage Solid Ground Consulting for strategic planning.
  • MountainTrue (as fiscal sponsor)
    Jackson
    Grant Amount: $51,000
    Fiscal Year 2025
    to support development of a Long-Term Conservation Plan for Jackson County’s District 4, which includes six Townships: Caney Fork, Canada, River, Mountain, Hamburg, and Cashiers.
  • Foothills Conservancy
    Rutherford
    Grant Amount: $47,000
    Fiscal Year 2024
    to cover a portion of the acquisition costs for the permanent protection of 1,711 acres in the Pinnacle Mountains section of the South Mountains located in Rutherford County.
  • The Village Green
    Jackson, Macon, and Transylvania
    Grant Amount: $11,300
    Fiscal Year 2024
    to fund unforeseen expenses associated with a quasi-judicial hearing process in which The Village Green is advocating to preserve and protect its properties from potentially significant environmental degradation related to mountainside developments in Cashiers.
  • Wildlands Network (as fiscal sponsor for the Safe Passage Fund Coalition)
    Haywood
    Grant Amount: $30,000
    Fiscal Year 2024
    to further advance wildlife habitat connectivity in Western North Carolina.
The Village Green of Cashiers, NC
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