· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Philanthropy Roundtable | $5,000 |
| Rotary Benevolent Fund WSFDN | $5,000 |
| Alexandria Police Youth Camp | $5,000 |
| TYDE YMCA Swim Team | $5,000 |
| Salemtowne | $3,500 |
| Red Shield Youth Center Salvation Army of W-S | $3,500 |
| Inova Health Foundatio | $2,500 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities Piednmont Triad | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SENIOR SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2025 · $92k · revenue +91%- HPHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +53%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 98 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 LEAD Girls of NC Inc ↗
- Who funds BOOKMARKS 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 WINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PIEDMONT TRIAD INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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