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Wayne and Alicia Gregory Family Foundation Fka River Oaks Foundation

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.

$184k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$731kEducation$422kSocial Science$140kPublic Benefit$140kReligion$68kHuman Services$41kHealth$39kCrime & Legal$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$33,750
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GAILLARD PERFORMANCE HALL FOUNDATION$55,000
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$35,000
SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA$33,750
TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
IBU FOUNDATION$21,200
ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AYN RAND INSTITUTE: $40k → 10%REASON FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%PLAY FOR PINK: $10k → 17%SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA: $312k → 16%GAILLARD PERFORMANCE HALL FOUNDATION: $55k → 12%CATO: $10k → 14%CAMP BOGGY CREEK: $2k → 10%SYNAGOGUE EMANU-EL: $3k → 15%NC BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 28%BEREA COLLEGE: $55k → 16%AYN RAND INSTITUTE: $40k → 10%REASON FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA: $150k → 16%IBU FOUNDATION: $21k → 12%CATO: $10k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $7k → 15%NORTH CAROLINA BAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $45k → 16%BEREA COLLEGE: $55k → 16%REASON FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA: $65k → 16%GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $8k → 12%CATO: $10k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $7k → 15%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $35k → 16%BEREA COLLEGE: $55k → 16%REASON FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%SPOLETO: $65k → 16%MUSC FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $7k → 15%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $35k → 16%SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA: $58k → 16%GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 12%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA: $34k → 16%MUSC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FUND: $20k → 12%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $20k → 16%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $20k → 16%MUSC FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%THE ATLAS SOCIETY: $20k → 16%THE CHARLESTON LIBRARY SOCIETY: $5k → 12%THE CHARLESTON LIBRARY SOCIETY: $5k → 12%THE DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $20k → 12%THE DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $20k → 12%COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $11k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CT
CA
KY
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 20 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +59% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$1.4M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+59%

Still filing today

70%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +81%
  • BEREA COLLEGE
    3× · 2018–2021 · $165k · revenue +27%
  • TR
    THE REASON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $140k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • S
    SPOLETO
    one grant, 2018 · $65k
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +187%
  • CC
    COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
4
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; the most unlike its peers is Ibu Foundation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA: $618,380 · OtherSPOLETO FESTIVAL USASPOLETO: $65,000 · OtherSPOLETOMUSC FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $40,000 · OtherCATO: $30,000 · Other+9 more: $61,500 · Other+9 moreHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITYBEREA COLLEGE: $165,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEGETHE REASON FOUNDATION: $140,000 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATIONTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM: $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AYN RAND INS…THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ATLAS SOCIET…The Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundation: $55,000 · Arts & CultureThe Martha and J…THE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ALBANY MUSEU…CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $14,500 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA ART ASS…+4 more: $16,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $4,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 · HealthIBU Foundation: $21,200 · InternationalPLAY FOR PINK INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$859,880Education$515,000Arts & Culture$240,500Health$27,000International$21,200Crime & Legal$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,000

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 budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $185,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $165,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD: $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundation: $55,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIBU Foundation: $21,200 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $14,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCharleston Library Society: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUNDING ARTS BROWARD INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 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.

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.

Coastal Community Fou…Joseph J Schott Found…Guffey Family Foundat…The Harvey-McNairy Fo…The Ayco Charitable F…Lincoln Financial Fou…Ibm International Fou…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Renaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Joseph J Schott Foundation · Guffey Family Foundation · The Harvey-McNairy Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Wayne and Alicia Gregory Family Foundation Fka River Oaks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne and Alicia Gregory Family Foundation Fka River Oaks 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Mark Twain Memorial: 22% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
  • Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Wayne and Alicia Gregory Family Foundation Fka River Oaks Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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