Opportunity Overview
AMY Wellness Foundation (AMYWF) has opened its Fall 2026 Community Investment Grant Cycle for eligible organizations working to improve health and well-being in Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey counties, North Carolina. The cycle offers two funding tracks: Disaster Recovery & Resilience Grants of up to $75,000 and Community Impact Grants of up to $50,000.
Deadline
The controlling AMY Wellness Foundation guidance states that applications are open through October 16, 2026. The official public guidance does not state a closing clock time or time zone, so Atlas does not infer one. Applicants should verify the live portal cutoff before final submission.
Eligibility
Eligible applicants are government agencies and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations with a physical location in Avery, Mitchell, or Yancey County. Grants to individuals, political purposes including lobbying, out-of-area projects or organizations, and grants prohibited by IRS regulations are outside AMYWF’s scope. For collaborations, the lead applicant must meet all eligibility requirements and have a physical location in the three-county region; collaborating partners may be inside or outside the region, but the funded work must benefit the AMY region.
Funding Tracks and Allowable Uses
Disaster Recovery & Resilience Grants: awards up to $75,000 for work directly connected to ongoing Hurricane Helene impacts or long-term community recovery and resilience. Community Impact Grants: awards up to $50,000 for work improving health and well-being that is not specifically tied to Helene recovery.
Both tracks may support programs and projects, unrestricted general operating support, and capacity building. Public guidance expressly gives examples including staff salaries and benefits; rent, utilities, insurance, and administrative expenses; technology and office operations; organizational infrastructure and financial management; communications, fundraising, and volunteer management; strategic planning; technology upgrades; financial systems; board development; leadership training; and organizational assessments. If a request spans multiple support types, the budget must break those areas out separately.
Priority Areas
Applicants identify the strategic priority areas advanced by their work. Current priorities include Housing & Housing Stability, Food Security, Mental Health, Health Access, Education & Youth Development, Transportation, Disaster Recovery & Community Resilience, and other initiatives that improve health and well-being in the AMY region.
Match / Cost Share and Grant Period
The controlling public guidance does not state a mandatory match or cost-share requirement. Atlas therefore does not infer one. Awards are not multi-year grants, and funds must be used during the grant period ending December 2027.
Submission Rules and Public-Portal Limitation
Applications are submitted through AMYWF’s linked online grants portal. The public funding page does not publish a complete field-by-field application checklist or required-upload list, and the linked YourCause application currently requires JavaScript and does not expose those fields through Atlas’s public read-only connection. Atlas therefore does not fabricate required forms or attachments. Applicants must review the live application portal and confirm every required field, budget entry, certification, and upload before filing. The public AMYWF page does not identify a separate amendment/addendum process.
Contact
Grant questions may be directed to Caitlin Trew-Johnson, Associate Director, at c.trewjohnson@amywellnessfoundation.org. AMY Wellness Foundation lists its office at 31 Cross St., Suite 266, Spruce Pine, NC 28777.
Atlas Fit Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 89/100. This is a flexible, regionally targeted North Carolina health-and-well-being funding opportunity with express priorities for health access, mental health, education/youth development, disaster recovery, and organizational technology/capacity. The score is moderated because the public application portal does not expose the complete required-upload checklist or a precise closing time/time zone.
N9+ Fit Score: 52/100. N9+ should not be forced into a general community grant, but a credible partnership pathway exists where an eligible local healthcare/public-health applicant proposes a documented health-access, rural-care, school-health, or resilience use case and confirms that the device or related services are allowable in the live application. AMYWF expressly permits program/project support and technology-related operating/capacity expenses, but that does not by itself guarantee that any specific clinical device will be approved.
Realistic Organizations to Evaluate
Mountain Community Health Partnership (MCHP) is a strong organization to evaluate. It is a 501(c)(3) Federally Qualified Health Center with locations in Mitchell and Yancey counties and provides primary care, behavioral health, dental and other services. MCHP is also expanding rural clinical capacity through a new integrated health center in Spruce Pine. Yancey County Health Department is another realistic applicant type because it is a county public-health agency physically located in Burnsville and operates public-health and school-health services. Eligibility and project fit remain application-specific and should be reconfirmed before outreach.
Dr. Miltie / QC Healthcare Direct-Applicant Review
Dr. Miltie/QC Healthcare is not advanced as a direct applicant. The controlling eligibility rules require an eligible government agency or 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a physical location in Avery, Mitchell, or Yancey County. An outside Dr. Miltie/QC role would need to be applicant-led and appropriately structured as a vendor, service provider, or collaboration partner rather than as the grant applicant.
Source Control
Controlling source: AMY Wellness Foundation Funding Opportunities.
Grant-cycle announcement: AMY Wellness Foundation Opens 2026 Community Investment Grant Cycle.
Contact source: AMY Wellness Foundation Contact.