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Evernham Family - Racing For A Reason

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$823k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$297k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.4MPhilanthropy$321kReligion$192kArts & Culture$162kYouth Development$80kAnimals$75kEducation$53kRecreation & Sports$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $142k
  • $250k+2 grants · $547k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Autism Society of NC$296,655
Novant Health Foundation$250,000
Speedway Children's Charities$82,000
Motor Racing Outreach$60,000
The Dale Jr Foundation$24,000
Davidson Day School$12,500
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum$10,000
Motorsports Charities Inc$10,000
Audrain Automobile Museum Inc$10,000
Victory Junction$10,000
Hendrick Family Foundation$10,000
Rescue Ranch$7,500
Jimmie Johnson Foundation$5,000
NASCAR Hall of Fame Foundation$5,000
Joey Logano Foundation Inc$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Project HOPE Foundation: $500 → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%SIERRA DELTA: $1k → 9%Sierra Delta: $10k → 10%Mountain Valley Hospice: $50 → 17%Wounded Warrior Project: $50 → 14%Sierra Delta: $5k → 10%Sierra Delta: $5k → 10%Sierra Delta: $5k → 10%Sierra Delta: $2k → 10%Kyle Larson Foundation: $2k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $100k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE: $100k → 10%HOSPICE AND PALLATIVE CARE OF IREDELL COUNTY: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 43 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
57

Total granted

$4.2M
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+13%

Still filing today

72%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +41%
  • SC
    SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES
    6× · 2018–2025 · $208k · revenue +24%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • DT
    Drive Toward a Cure
    one grant, 2024 · $11k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +31%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Evernham Family - Racing for a Reason
Philanthropy
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Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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Knox Martin Foundation for Brain Cancer Research

To reverse the underfunded and under-researched nature of brain cancer by funding innovative research on the most aggressive forms of brain cancer - glioblastoma (gbm).

Health
4
National Hot Rod Association

To improve business conditions in the sport of drag racing and in the hot rod industry, and promote and advance the common business interests of those engaged in the sport of drag racing and the hot rod industry, to promote safety,…

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Kevin Harvick Foundation

To support programs that positively enrich the lives of children throughout the United States.

Philanthropy
6
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

Accelerate the discovery of drugs to prevent, treat and cure alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Social Science
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Friends of Jaclyn Inc

Our mission is to improve the quality of life for children with pediatric brain tumors& other childhood cancers . the organization pairs children with college & high schoolathletic teams & nascar drivers who provide love, support and…

Health
8
The Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation

The adenoid cystic carcinoma research foundation (accrf) supports research into adenoid cystic carcinoma that will accelerate the development of improved therapies and a cure for the disease.

Health
9
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
10
The Ironman Foundation Inc

To leave ironman's legacy through philanthropy, volunteerism and grant making; by supporting various athletic, community, education, health, human services and public benefit non-profit organizations around the world.

Philanthropy
11
Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation

The foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life for children with cancer and their families by providing financial assistance and compassionate support programs while advocating for increased research funds and raising public…

Philanthropy
12
Lvh Als Foundation

The mission of the lvh foundation is to provide funding to endow a professorship of als at duke university - not only to help those today with als, but more importantly to fund a cure for als in the future.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc; the most unlike its peers is Brad Keselowskis Checkered Flag Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
47/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $2,027,314 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INCAUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $564,429 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINANovant Health Foundation: $365,000 · OtherNovant Health Foundation+69 more: $241,424 · Other+69 moreSPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $207,500 · PhilanthropySPEEDWAY CH…THE DALE JR FOUNDATION: $76,377 · PhilanthropyTHE DALE JR…MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC: $44,000 · PhilanthropyMOTORSPORTS…Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation: $25,355 · PhilanthropyJeff Gordon…JIMMIE JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $21,312 · Philanthropy+14 more: $52,909 · Philanthropy+14 moreRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesSIERRA DELTA INC: $28,250 · Human Services+6 more: $2,400 · Human ServicesMotor Racing Outreach Inc: $187,860 · Religion+1 more: $2,400 · ReligionMARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC: $129,230 · Youth DevelopmentVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $13,300 · Youth Development+1 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL SPRINT CAR HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $102,500 · Arts & CultureAUDRAIN AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRESCUE RANCH INC: $49,645 · AnimalsLAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC: $14,000 · AnimalsDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $8,500 · Animals+3 more: $2,450 · Animals
Other$3,198,167Philanthropy$427,453Human Services$230,650Religion$190,260Youth Development$143,030Arts & Culture$112,500Animals$74,595

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $2,027,314 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $207,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMotor Racing Outreach Inc: $187,860 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetMARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC: $129,230 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL SPRINT CAR HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $102,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE DALE JR FOUNDATION: $76,377 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetRESCUE RANCH INC: $49,645 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC: $44,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDavidson Day School: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $35,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA DELTA INC: $28,250 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJeff Gordon Childrens Foundation: $25,355 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJIMMIE JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $21,312 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $13,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDENNY HAMLIN FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJoey Logano Charitable Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPUT ON THE BRAKES INC: $6,130 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAMANTHA AND KYLE BUSCH BUNDLE OF JOY FUND: $6,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION HELO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIFTY PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetKYLE PETTY CHARITY RIDE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKinderMourn Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING LEGENDS OF AUTO RACING INC: $2,920 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MASTER'S MEN: $2,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOld Friends Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMELIA ISLAND CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmile A While Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUSHJA FOUNDATION INC: $1,660 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKyle Larson Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHASE ELLIOTT FOUNDATION INC: $1,109 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTED LINDSAY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES RESCUE SQUAD INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARBELLS FOR BOOBS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hendrick Family Found…Motorsports Charities…Foundation for the Ca…The Dale Jr FoundationDuke Energy FoundationKevin Harvick Foundat…Apex FoundationSpeedway Children's C…Joey Logano Charitabl…Jimmie Johnson Founda…Enterprise Holdings F…Synchrony Foundation
Hendrick Family FoundationNC26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hendrick Family Foundation · Motorsports Charities Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Dale Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Kevin Harvick Foundation · Apex Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Joey Logano Charitable Foundation Inc · Jimmie Johnson Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Synchrony Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Evernham Family - Racing For A Reason funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evernham Family - Racing For A Reason. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Hollydell Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 112 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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