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The Aver Foundation at a glance

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The Aver 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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$82kAnimals$15kHealth$12kHuman Services$9kYouth Development$475Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$613k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE$5,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$3,500
MUDDY PAWS RESCUE$3,075
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION$3,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE$3,000
THE FREE CLINICS$2,500
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES CDC: $475 → 21%THE CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $2k → 9%THE CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $2k → 9%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$114k · 12 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$114k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+1443%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • ND
    NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +186%
  • MP
    Muddy Paws Rescue
    6× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +336%
  • Davidson College
    5× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ABILITY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • DU
    DENISON UNIVERSITY INSTIT
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • MW
    MEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $475 · revenue ×15
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
Furman University

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.

Education
2
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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3
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
4
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

—
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Davidson College; the most unlike its peers is Henderson County Free Medical Clinic Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC: $34,500 · EducationNATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INCDavidson College: $14,500 · EducationDavidson CollegeUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATI…DENISON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITYGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $4,000 · EducationGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INCFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCDENISON UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE: $5,500 · OtherDENISON UNIVERSITY INSTITUT…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTNATIONAL ABILITY INSTITUTE: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL ABILITY INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDENISON UNIVERSITY INSTIT: $2,500 · OtherDENISON UNIVERSITY INSTITMuddy Paws Rescue: $15,075 · PhilanthropyMuddy Paws Res…HENDERSON COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $7,000 · HealthTHE CARVER INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $475 · Human Services
Education$66,000Other$30,000Philanthropy$15,075Health$7,000Human Services$3,475

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC: $34,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMuddy Paws Rescue: $15,075 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDavidson College: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $475 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Muddy Paws Rescue ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
  • Who funds MEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES 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.

American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Aver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 15 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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