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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.

$106k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 16
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$106k13%
FY202215$100k0%
FY202115$85k0%
FY202015$62k0%
FY201915$63k0%
FY201816$62k6%
FY201715$61kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$143kHuman Services$138kHealth$76kReligion$67kHousing & Shelter$58kArts & Culture$21kRecreation & Sports$21kAnimals$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Scsdb Foundation$88,00073%
Epworth Children's Home$81,00070%
Edisto Habitat for Humanity International Inc$58,00072%
Orangeburg County Council on Aging$50,00071%
Orangeburg Preparatory Schools Inc$48,00070%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$21,00070%
Orangeburg Calhoun Free Medical Clinic Inc$15,00015%
Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties$8,0007n/a
Winthrop University Foundation$7,00070%
South Carolina United Methodist Foundation Inc$7,00070%
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All grantees of Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Scsdb Foundation$88,00073%
Epworth Children's Home$81,00070%
Edisto Habitat for Humanity International Inc$58,00072%
Orangeburg County Council on Aging$50,00071%
Orangeburg Preparatory Schools Inc$48,00070%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$21,00070%
Orangeburg Calhoun Free Medical Clinic Inc$15,00015%
Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties$8,0007n/a
Winthrop University Foundation$7,00070%
South Carolina United Methodist Foundation Inc$7,00070%
Healing Species Inc$1,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($155k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetScsdb Foundation: $88,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetEpworth Children's Home: $81,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEdisto Habitat for Humanity International Inc: $58,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetOrangeburg County Council on Aging: $50,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetOrangeburg Preparatory Schools Inc: $48,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOrangeburg Calhoun Free Medical Clinic Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWinthrop University Foundation: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Carolina United Methodist Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHealing Species Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation

How much does Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation give?
Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $106,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Human Services (26%), Health (14%).
Who are Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Scsdb Foundation ($88k), Epworth Children's Home ($81k), Edisto Habitat for Humanity International Inc ($58k).
Does Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Spartanburg County Foundation, Albemarle Foundation.
Where is Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation based?
Mary Elizabeth Avinger Charitable Foundation is based in SC.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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