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WESTERN CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 45-5586998 ASHEVILLE, NC

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Revenue 2024
$1,511,390
Expenses 2024
$1,452,692

Program services were 69.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E80
Classification
1000
Street
304 SUMMIT ST

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

Western Carolina Medical Society Foundation is a physician- and community-led organization. Its mission is to address issues of access to quality health care, disparities in health, wellness and prevention.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WC Medical Societys mission is to advocate for healthy communities, increase access to healthcare, fight health inequities, and promote wellness in Western North Carolina.

  • Project Access is designed to assist uninsured patients in two counties gain access to needed health care including preventive screenings, hospital care, specialty care, mental health care and diagnostic care such as labs or imaging, and medications. . In 2024 Western Carolina Medical Society through Project Access: --Enrolled 1,490 patients --Facilitated $400,000 in donated specialy care from participating providers. --Scheduled 6,723 interpretive network (WIN) appointments in 38 languages --Screened 461 patients for colonrectal cancer --Completed 29 colonoscopies identified through our screening program

    Expenses $1,013,487 · Grants $22,631 · Revenue $613,691

  • --Provided 102 therapy and coaching sessions through the Healthy Healer program --Connected over 1,000 community members through outreach events --Started an emergency services program after Hurricane Helene

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.

  • Karen Wallace-Miegs

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $63,545
    From this org
    $59,115
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,430
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jennifer Abbott MD

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeffrey Garris MD

    Vice-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bronwyn Burleson CPA

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathleen Rodberg Esq

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rivers Woodward MD

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • William McLean MD

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark McNeill

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Abdalla Abu Baker

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Robinson MD

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Suzette LaRoche MD

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rachel Keever MD

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David May MD

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carolina Perez

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Winnie Pace

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Virginia Lawrence

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Cash MD

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslie Council

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anneliese Duncan MD

    Director at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard Bunio MD

    Director at Large

    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
    $1,511,390
    Expenses
    $1,452,692
    Contributions
    $846,767
    Grants paid
    $22,631
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,533,547
    Expenses
    $1,555,753
    Contributions
    $863,008
    Grants paid
    $13,870
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,318,128
    Expenses
    $1,442,079
    Contributions
    $723,193
    Grants paid
    $13,010

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

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,679,805
    Expenses
    $1,393,706
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,620,324

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,982,391
    Expenses
    $1,652,216
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,929,643

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,424,777
    Expenses
    $1,055,983
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,530,841

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,151,161
    Expenses
    $1,097,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,130,391

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,211,704
    Expenses
    $1,129,575
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,154,822

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,085,211
    Expenses
    $1,145,850
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,057,534

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $965,318
    Expenses
    $1,056,914
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,099,028

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $509,657
    Expenses
    $510,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,190,697

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
Miriam Schwarz
Mailing address
304 Summit StreetAsheville NC 28803

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 PC.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.