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Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | $72,500 |
| Senior Services | $30,000 |
| Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Health | $25,000 |
| Winston-Salem Symphony | $20,000 |
| Samaritan Ministries | $15,000 |
| Fairfax United Methodist Church | $10,000 |
| Trellis Supportive Care | $10,000 |
| TYDE YMCA Swim Team | $5,000 |
| Rotary Benevolent Fund WSFDN | $5,000 |
| Philanthropy Roundtable | $5,000 |
| Alexandria Police Youth Camp | $5,000 |
| Salemtowne | $3,500 |
| Red Shield Youth Center Salvation Army of W-S | $3,500 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities Piednmont Triad | $2,500 |
| Inova Health Foundatio | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
SENIOR SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2025 · $92k · revenue +91%- HPHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +36%
- WSWINSTON-SALEM SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- WFWake Forest Baptist Healthone grant, 2021 · $47k
- HCHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +50%
- ARAmerican Red Cross Piedmont Triad of North Carolinaone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
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…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Secu family house at unc hospitals provides an affordable, safe, nurturing home away from home for seriously ill patients, their family members, and caregivers from throughout north carolina and beyond.
For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of wake county brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 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. 46 of the 98 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 GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER ↗
- Who funds WINSTON-SALEM SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds The Winston-Salem Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD Girls of NC Inc ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Ellie's Hats ↗
- Who funds INDIANA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PIEDMONT TRIAD INC ↗
- Who funds Bethesda Center for the Homesless 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: Reynolds American Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · Flow Foundation Inc · Twin City Development Foundation · Shallow Ford Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Sara Smith Self Foundation Inc
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 Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill 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.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
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.
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