Mitchell County Development Foundation
Spruce Pine, NC · EIN 56-2262436. Reported 40 grants totalling $1,180,500 to 40 organizations across tax years 2025, 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 Mitchell County Development Foundation, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A65) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 5% 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 big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $22,150. Half of what it reported fell between $13,200 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $60,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dt Niven Enterprises Inc | Spruce Pine, NC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gem City | Spruce Pine, NC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hardings Landscape & Maintenancein | Spruce Pine, NC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hefs Inc | Spruce Pine, NC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lynn Peterson Store | Green Mountain, NC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Morgan Oil Company | Bakersville, NC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Niven Properties Inc | Spruce Pine, NC | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Blue Ridge Outdoor Adventures | Bakersville, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| D & S Propane LLC | Bakersville, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Long Range Ballistics | Bakersville, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Los Garcia Inc | Pineola, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Styles Office Building | Burnsville, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Youngs Fuel | Bakersville, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Riddle Financial Solution | Spruce Pine, NC | $42,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| H & B Contracting | Green Mountain, NC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hopsons Country Store | Bakersville, NC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rentals of Spruce Pine | Spindale, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Daniel Garver Studio | Spruce Pine, NC | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lakeview Mercantile and Gardens in | Spruce Pine, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Spruce Pine Florist | Bakersville, NC | $22,300 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sublimation Studio | Johnson City, TN | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bonnie & Clydes Drive in | Bakersville, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bryants Small Engine Repair | Spruce Pine, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Living Waters Campground | Bakersville, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Red Hill Grocery | Bakersville, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Treasures in the Pines | Spruce Pine, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Emerald Village Inc | Little Switzerland, NC | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Glenwood Inc | Birmingham, AL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Nc Outdoor Adventures | Bakersville, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Murphys Auto Center LLC | Spruce Pine, NC | $13,200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mineral City Metal Works | Spruce Pine, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tree House Mountain Realty | Spruce Pine, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cjs Barbecue | Spruce Pine, NC | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| City Drive in | Spruce Pine, NC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Alpine Real Estate Company | Bakersville, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bakersville Auto Care | Bakersville, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bakersville Computer Repair | Bakersville, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Buchanan Gemstone Mines Inc | Spruce Pine, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mica Gallery | Bakersville, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mitchell Lumber Company LLC | Spruce Pine, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 $22,150 -- 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 Mitchell County Development Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2024-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 40 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: Po Box 327, Spruce Pine, NC, 28777.
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