Skip to content
Plinth

· Public charity

The Avalon Network Inc

Avalon connects our nation's veterans and first responders with life-changing care.

$21M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$3.7M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$16MEducation$9.8MHealth$9.7MInternational$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1M
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,200,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION$3,737,423
UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS INCORPORATED$3,400,000
TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND$2,500,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$2,500,000
UNIVERSITY OF NC AT CHAPEL HILL$1,250,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$1,250,000
BIG RED BARN RETREAT$1,200,000
SHEEP DOG IMPACT ASSISTANCE$1,200,000
WARRIORS HEART$1,000,000
CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND$800,000
TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION$750,000
GRATITUDE AMERICA LTD$600,000
PERMISSION TO START DREAMING$483,314
EAGLE OAK RETREAT FOUNDATION$300,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $13.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%EAGLE OAK RETREAT FOUNDATION: $600k → 9%BIG RED BARN RETREAT: $1.2M → 16%SHEEP DOG IMPACT ASSISTANCE: $1.2M → 8%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $800k → 6%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $3.7M → 7%EAGLE OAK RETREAT FOUNDATION: $300k → 9%BIG RED BARN RETREAT: $900k → 16%SHEEP DOG IMPACT DREAMING: $900k → 8%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $600k → 6%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $2.8M → 7%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
WA
WI
PA
CO
VA
AR
NC
SC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 13 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$31M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+14%

Still filing today

77%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • BC
    BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +77%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +18%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue +14%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue -5%

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
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
2
Head Strong Project Inc

The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.

Health
3
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
4
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
5
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
6
Veterans Medical Research Foundation of San Diego

Honoring military service with science; our bench-to-bedside approach has led to breakthroughs in areas such as shingles prevention, heart disease, metabolic diseases and ground breaking work on post-traumatic stress disorder.

Health
7
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…

Health
8
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
9
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
12
Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine

Hjf partners to advance military medicine for our nations warfighters. as a global nonprofit organization authorized by congress, hjf provides scientific, administrative and program management services to researchers and clinicians. hjf…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gratitude America Ltd Royal Palm Professional Building. 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION — $6,580,063 · Human ServicesBOULDER CREST FOUNDATIONBIG RED BARN RETREAT — $2,100,000 · Human ServicesBIG RED BARN RETREATSheep Dog Impact Assistance — $2,100,000 · Human ServicesSheep Dog Impact AssistanceCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC — $1,400,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INCEAGLE OAK RETREAT FOUNDATION — $900,000 · Human ServicesEAGLE OAK RETREAT FOUNDATIONTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $3,500,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCON…THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOU…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $2,500,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TUL…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $1,250,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS INCORPORATED — $4,712,655 · OtherUNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS INCO…THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CA…WARRIORS HEART — $1,500,000 · OtherWARRIORS HEARTSHEPHERD CENTER INC — $2,500,000 · HealthGRATITUDE AMERICA LTD ROYAL PALM PROFESSIONAL BUILDING — $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyPERMISSION TO START DREAMING FOUNDATION — $1,083,314 · PhilanthropyTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION — $1,350,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$13,080,063Education$9,750,000Other$8,712,655Health$2,500,000Philanthropy$2,283,314Public Benefit$1,350,000

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 budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION — $6,580,063 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $3,500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC — $2,500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $2,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG RED BARN RETREAT — $2,100,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetSheep Dog Impact Assistance — $2,100,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC — $1,400,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION — $1,350,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $1,250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERMISSION TO START DREAMING FOUNDATION — $1,083,314 over 2y, 29% of budgetEAGLE OAK RETREAT FOUNDATION — $900,000 over 2y, 77% 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.

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.

Boulder Crest FoundationVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boulder Crest Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Avalon Network Inc 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 · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–40%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Avalon Network Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Avalon Network Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph