· Private foundation
Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of MARY ELIZABETH AVINGER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME | $20,000 |
| SC SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND | $20,000 |
| ORANGEBURG CALHOUN FREE MEDICAL | $15,000 |
| ORANGEBURG COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,000 |
| EDISTO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| ORANGEBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| ST ANDREWS METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| COOPERATIVE CHURCH MINISTRIES OF | $4,000 |
| ORANGEBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| WINTHROP UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SC UNITED METHODIST FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| THE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ECEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME7× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +177%
- OCORANGEBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING7× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +10%
- OPORANGEBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- HSHEALING SPECIES INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To aid banking education by providing scholarships to college students.
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
The organization provides health care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay. this is a direct fulfillment of their tax exempt purpose.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Operation of a public charter school
The educational trust operates exclusively for the benefit of, and to carry out the purposes of, the university of south carolina school of medicine and the greater university of south carolina. its main purposes are to augment and aid…
In the spirit of christ's love, the ministry of united church of christ homes is to provide care and service to elders through acts of love and compassion.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
The Eastern Carolina Community Foundation improves the quality of life in this area of South Carolina through inspired philanthropy and innovative community programs.
Williamsburg regional hospital is a not for profit acute care hospital with 25 licensed beds, providing excellence in patient care in an environment that is respectful of others, adaptive to change, accountable for outcomes, and attentive…
Ouachita baptist university is a christ-centered learning community. embracing the liberal arts tradition, the university prepares individuals for ongoing intellectual and spiritual growth, lives of meaningful work, and reasoned engagement…
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winthrop University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Orangeburg Calhoun Free Medical Clinic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SCSDB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds EDISTO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGEBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds ORANGEBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ORANGEBURG CALHOUN FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Winthrop University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA UNITED METHODIST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING SPECIES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.