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Sandra and John Oliver Family Found

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.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Public Safety & Disaster$4kHuman Services$2kEducation$1kInternational$1kReligion$1kHousing & Shelter$853Health$750Crime & Legal$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$353
Median grant
5
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILKES RESCUE SQUAD$1,000
FAIRPLAINS BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
SPRUCE PINE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
WILKES ADAP INC$500
WINSTON SALEM RESCUE MISSION$353
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$300
WILKES LITERACY$250
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$250
Individual grant recipient$200
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$150
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $250 → 14%ATRIUM HEALTH: $500 → 10%WINSTON SALEM FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%SPRUCE PINE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 16%ST PAUL'S CRISIS MINISTRY: $1k → 19%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1k → 21%MARIETTA CEMETARY ASSOCIATION: $250 → 8%DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $150 → 11%SAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY: $500 → 19%WILKES FAMILY YMCA: $500 → 19%WILKES RESCUE SQUAD: $1k → 19%FAIRPLAINS BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 19%WILKES RESCUE SQUAD: $1k → 19%RUBY PARDUE BLACKBURN ADULT DAYCARE: $1k → 19%WILKES ADAP INC: $500 → 19%WILKES LITERACY: $500 → 19%WILKES LITERACY: $250 → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4k · 3 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$4k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
HealthReligionHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • WR
    WILKES RESCUE SQUAD INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue -32%
  • TW
    THE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $853 · revenue +31%
  • WL
    WILKES LITERACY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $750 · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +53%
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S CRISIS MINISTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • RP
    RUBY PARDUE BLACKBURN ADULT DAYCARE
    one grant, 2023 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
WakeMed

The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.

Health
4
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
5
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education
6
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
7
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Charleston Southern University

Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…

Education
11
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
12
Lincoln Memorial University

Lincoln memorial university is a values-based learning community dedicated to providing educational experiences in the liberal arts and professional studies.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disabled American Veterans and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILKES RESCUE SQUAD INC — $2,000 · OtherWILKES RESCUE SQUAD INCSPRUCE PINE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $1,000 · OtherSPRUCE PINE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHFAIRPLAINS BAPTIST CHURCH — $1,000 · OtherFAIRPLAINS BAPTIST CHURCHST PAUL'S CRISIS MINISTRY — $1,000 · OtherST PAUL'S CRISIS MINISTRYRUBY PARDUE BLACKBURN ADULT DAYCARE — $1,000 · OtherRUBY PARDUE BLACKBURN ADULT DAYCAREWILKES LITERACY INC — $750 · OtherWILKES LITERACY INCWILKES FAMILY YMCA — $500 · OtherWILKES FAMILY YMCASAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY — $500 · OtherSAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACYWILKES ADAP INC — $500 · OtherWILKES ADAP INC+3 more — $600 · Other+3 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $1,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN…THE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC — $853 · Housing & ShelterATRIUM HEALTH INC — $500 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $250 · HealthUniversity of Miami — $300 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $250 · EducationThe Winston-Salem Foundation — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$8,850Religion$1,000Housing & Shelter$853Health$750Education$550Philanthropy$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILKES RESCUE SQUAD INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC — $853 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES LITERACY INC — $750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Winston-Salem Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Sandra and John Oliver Family Found 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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