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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Protecting Natural Systems

Mainspring Conservation Trust

  • Region: Jackson County
  • Grant Amount: $60,000
  • Fiscal Year: 2026
  • About: to support short-term stewardship needs for the recently acquired 94-acre Slickens Creek tract to ultimately expand safe, managed public access to this beloved region.

American Rivers

  • Region: WNC
  • Grant Amount: $150,000 over two years
  • Fiscal Year: 2025
  • About: 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

  • Region: WNC
  • Grant Amount: $50,000
  • Fiscal Year: 2025
  • About: to support collaborative efforts to analyze land connected to the biologically-rich Blue Ridge Parkway to help prioritize landowner outreach and voluntary land conservation.

MountainTrue (as fiscal sponsor)

  • Region: Jackson
  • Grant Amount: $51,000
  • Fiscal Year: 2025
  • About: 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.

Camp Grier

  • Region: McDowell
  • Grant Amount: $44,000
  • Fiscal Year: 2025
  • About: 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.

Friends of the WNC Nature Center

  • Region: WNC
  • Grant Amount: $35,000
  • Fiscal Year: 2025
  • About: to purchase native pollinator plants for the new, immersive butterfly garden at the Western North Carolina Nature Center.

The Pisgah Conservancy

  • Region: Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, McDowell, Madison, Rutherford, Transylvania, Yancey
  • Grant Amount: $60,000
  • Fiscal Year: 2025
  • About: to fund a crew leader for the Invasive Plant Management Crew, fully dedicated to working in Pisgah National Forest.

Polk County Appearance Commission 

  • Region: Polk County
  • Grant Amount: $24,000
  • Fiscal Year: 2025
  • About: to support a kudzu inventory, outreach and education services to expand efforts to eradicate the non-native invasive species that threatens biodiversity.

Wildlands Network, as fiscal sponsor for the Safe Passage Fund Coalition

  • Region: WNC
  • Grant Amount: $93,000
  • Fiscal Year: 2025
  • About: to continue improving wildlife habitat connectivity and human safety in Western North Carolina by creating safe passages for animal migration patterns, thereby reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions.