GREAT SMOKIES HEALTH FOUNDATION

EIN 56-1967734 SYLVA, NC

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Revenue 2024: $777,254
Expenses 2024: $901,945

Program services were 87.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: E99Z
Classification: 1000
Street: PO BOX 176

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Improve healthcare in Jackson, Swain, Graham and Macon counties in North Carolina.

Great Smokies Health Foundation (GSHF) has expanded and enhanced healthcare in targeted areas by the provision of grants and supportive services. GSHF suppports programs, projects and initiatives focused on health, wellness, and prevention. Funding is provided to non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations and governmental agencies. We are currently working with our community healthcare providers and agencies to identify areas for future funding. GSHF operates the Jackson County Thrift Shop. The Thrift shop offers a great variety and excellent prices in gently used items.

Expenses $792,956 · Grants $611,412 · Revenue $160,506

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Heather Baker

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Scott Connor

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Gerald McKinney

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Larry Selby MD

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Jacob Buchanan

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Ron Laroque

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Julie Richards

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Thom Brooks

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Ericka Zimmerman

Vice President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Shelley Carraway

Executive Director

Total calculated

$78,000

From this org

$78,000

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
Alicia Parham

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Carmen Nations

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Brian McMahan

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Ashley Hindman

Director

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$777,254

Expenses

$901,945

Contributions

$3,150

Grants paid

$611,412
2023

Revenue

$700,616

Expenses

$778,697

Contributions

$500

Grants paid

$498,214
2022

Revenue

-$92,432

Expenses

$632,144

Contributions

$0

Grants paid

$400,068

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$777,254	$901,945	$3,150	$611,412
2023	$700,616	$778,697	$500	$498,214
2022	-$92,432	$632,144	$0	$400,068

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$654,835

Expenses

$382,341

Assets (EOY)

$8,781,893
2020 · 990

Revenue

$771,945

Expenses

$443,342

Assets (EOY)

$11,170,971
2019 · 990

Revenue

$630,800

Expenses

$987,542

Assets (EOY)

$9,813,827
2018 · 990

Revenue

$172,788

Expenses

$388,842

Assets (EOY)

$9,828,720
2017 · 990

Revenue

$161,276

Expenses

$645,216

Assets (EOY)

$9,961,361
2016 · 990

Revenue

$217,337

Expenses

$350,013

Assets (EOY)

$10,231,144
2015 · 990

Revenue

$180,008

Expenses

$740,966

Assets (EOY)

$10,336,572
2014 · 990

Revenue

$165,125

Expenses

$512,944

Assets (EOY)

$10,794,211
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$196,575

Assets (EOY)

$0
2011 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$180,878

Assets (EOY)

$0

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$654,835	$382,341	$8,781,893
2020	990	$771,945	$443,342	$11,170,971
2019	990	$630,800	$987,542	$9,813,827
2018	990	$172,788	$388,842	$9,828,720
2017	990	$161,276	$645,216	$9,961,361
2016	990	$217,337	$350,013	$10,231,144
2015	990	$180,008	$740,966	$10,336,572
2014	990	$165,125	$512,944	$10,794,211
2012	990	not reported	$196,575	$0
2011	990	not reported	$180,878	$0

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Graham County Health Dept

$125,035

2022 Community Health Programs
Swain Co Public Schools

$100,000

2024 Community Health Programs
Jackson Co Public Schools

$96,000

2024 Community Health Programs
Graham Co Public School

$90,000

2024 Community Health Programs
Graham Co Board of Education

$90,000

2023 Community Health Programs
Jackson County Board of Education

$90,000

2023 Community Health Programs
Swain County Board of Education

$90,000

2023 Community Health Programs
Mountain Hope Nursing Alliance

$35,000

2024 Community Health Programs
Center for Domestic Peace Inc

$30,785

2022 Community Health Programs
Vecinos Inc

$22,500

2023 Community Health Programs

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.