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Sandra and John Oliver Family Found at a glance

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Sandra and John Oliver Family Found

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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$4kHuman Services$2kEducation$1kInternational$1kReligion$1kHousing & Shelter$853Health$750Crime & Legal$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$355
Median grant
3
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$2,500
WILKES MINISTRY OF HOPE$1,100
WILKES RESCUE SQUAD$1,000
SAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$1,000
ATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST$500
WINSTON SALEM RESCUE MISSION$355
ANCHOR RIDGE$300
SAR FOUNDATION$250
Individual grant recipient$250
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$200
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$100
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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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WILKES FAMILY YMCA: $500 → 19%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5k · 4 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$5k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthReligionHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TW
    THE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +31%
  • WL
    WILKES LITERACY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $750 · revenue +35%
  • DA
    Disabled American Veterans
    2× · 2024–2025 · $350 · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • SP
    SPRUCE PINE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S CRISIS MINISTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • FB
    FAIRPLAINS BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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.

04Its 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
Wakemed

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

Health
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Adventist Healthcare Inc

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

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8
Lexington Medical Center

To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.

Health
9
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
10
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
11
Anderson University

The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…

Education
12
Wellstar Mcg Health Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Health Foundation Inc; 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

13 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. 13 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILKES RESCUE SQUAD INC: $3,000 · OtherWILKES RESCUE SQUAD INCWILKES MINISTRY OF HOPE: $1,100 · OtherWILKES MINISTRY OF HOPESAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $1,000 · OtherSAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERSPRUCE PINE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherSPRUCE PINE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHST PAUL'S CRISIS MINISTRY: $1,000 · OtherST PAUL'S CRISIS MINISTRYFAIRPLAINS BAPTIST CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherFAIRPLAINS BAPTIST CHURCHRUBY PARDUE BLACKBURN ADULT DAYCARE: $1,000 · OtherRUBY PARDUE BLACKBURN ADULT DAYCAREWILKES LITERACY INC: $750 · OtherWILKES LITERACY INCATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST: $500 · OtherWILKES ADAP INC: $500 · OtherSAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY: $500 · Other+4 more: $1,050 · Other+4 moreTHE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthTHE HEALTH FOUNDAT…ATRIUM HEALTH INC: $500 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH INCPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $250 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 · ReligionANCHOR RIDGE: $300 · ReligionTHE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,208 · Housing & ShelterThe Winston-Salem Foundation: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE SAR FOUNDATION INC: $250 · PhilanthropyHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $350 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $300 · EducationYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626): $500 · Human Services
Other$12,400Health$3,250Religion$1,300Housing & Shelter$1,208Philanthropy$750Education$650Human Services$500

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 budgetWILKES RESCUE SQUAD INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,208 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES LITERACY INC: $750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626): $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Winston-Salem Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $250 over 1y, 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 Sandra and John Oliver Family Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sandra and John Oliver Family Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% 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, 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 26 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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