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R W W Family Foundation at a glance

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R W W Family Foundation

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.

$141k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$141k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$693kHealth$150kRecreation & Sports$90kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$18kHousing & Shelter$10kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $103
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $141k
$141,011
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Educational Foundation Inc$141,011
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation$103
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Naismith Hall of Fame: $18k → 17%The Astor D Rice Foundation Inc: $10k → 20%College of Charleston Athletic Fund: $50k → 12%SECU Family House: $25k → 9%Pardee Hospital Foundation: $115k → 12%TC Roberson Rams Club: $40k → 12%Carolina Covenant Scholarship Gener: $25k → 13%Habitat for Humanity: $10k → 16%American Cancer Society: $5k → 13%Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $103 → 14%TC Roberson High School: $10k → 12%Florence Student Emergency Fund: $12k → 13%Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $103 → 14%Medical Foundation of NC: $30k → 13%Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $103 → 14%Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $103 → 14%Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $103 → 14%Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $103 → 14%Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $103 → 14%Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $103 → 14%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.
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 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.

1
Athletic Foundation of the University of North Carolina At Charlotte

The mission is to assist the university of north carolina at charlotte in its general athletic programs by providing financial aid to student athletes and to provide other such aid to improve athletic facilities and further athletic…

Education
2
North Carolina Sports Legacy Foundation Fka Promote the Youth Foundation
Philanthropy
3
University of North Carolina At Charlotte Investment Fund

The university of north carolina at charlotte investment fund, inc. (unccif) is a north carolina not-for-profit organization established to support the university of north carolina at charlotte (unc charlotte) by providing investment…

Education
4
Nchof Inc

Nchof was established to support and honor university of north carolina student athletes of the past, present, and future. we are committed to highlighting the successes of the university's athletic programs and developing relationships…

Philanthropy
5
Johnston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Johnston health foundation seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people in our communities by supporting the patients, programs, and services of unc health johnston. the foundation seeks to be a philanthropic leader and…

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6
The University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill Foundation Inc

To aid, support, and promote teaching, research, and service in the various educational, scientific, scholarly, professional, artistic, and creative endeavors of the university of north carolina at chapel hill.

Education
7
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education
8
North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

Celebrates excellence and extraordinary achievement in athletics. the hall of fame also commemorates and memorializes exceptional accomplishments in sports for the inspiration and enjoyment of all north carolinians, especially the youth,…

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9
Charlotte Sports Foundation

The Charlotte Sports Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization created in 2013 to provide leadership for sports-based initiatives that enhance the economy and quality of life in the Charlotte region. We provide unique events and…

Recreation & Sports
10
Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc

Through the investment of time, talents, and treasure, the charlotte hornets foundation will support, promote, and enhance important community efforts that enrich the quality of life for those in need, especially children and youth…

Philanthropy
11
Lexington Medical Center Foundation Inc

To promote and advance charitable, educational, and scientific purposes by supporting and operating for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of lexington medical center (dba atrium health wake forest baptist lexington medical…

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12
Piedmont Health Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $646,549 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCTC Roberson Rams Club Inc: $40,000 · Other+7 more: $103,700 · Other+7 morePARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $114,690 · PhilanthropyPARDEE MEMORI…Autograph Basketballs for Community Service Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $29,631 · EducationTHE ASTOR D RICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $824 · Health
Other$790,249Philanthropy$119,690Recreation & Sports$50,000Education$29,631Youth Development$10,000Health$5,824

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $646,549 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPARDEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $114,690 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTC Roberson Rams Club Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $29,631 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASTOR D RICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutograph Basketballs for Community Service Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $824 over 8y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization R W W Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R W W Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 16 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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