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Abney 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE CHURCH | $150,000 |
| CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| WOFFORD COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| LANDER UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MUSCHOLLINGS CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| THE CITADEL | $100,000 |
| CONVERSE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| INSPIRE ABILITIES OF ANDERSON | $50,000 |
| ANDERSON COUNTY PAWS | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AUANDERSON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $850k · revenue +74%
- CUCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +17%
- PCPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SCSecond Chance Churchone grant, 2020 · $500k
- MCMUSC/Hollings Cancer Centerone grant, 2020 · $200k
- CUClemson Universityone grant, 2020 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to partner with christian parents in providing a quality education integrated with a biblical world view that will prepare the students for a life of service to the lord jesus christ.
The mission of Anderson University is to educate for a life of faith and service in the church and society. Established and sustained within the free and open traditions of the Church of God, this university is committed to being a…
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
Southeastern carolina crossroads is an organization designed to provide a positive atmosphere and faith based help and hope for men to overcome addiction.
Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.
Wesley commons is a continuing care retirement community that provides value-based health services, including assisted living, intermediate and skilled nursing care, specialized care for alzheimer's and dementia-related illnesses, as well…
To provide food and shelter for the homeless
The paul anderson youth home (payh) is a residential home providing christian rehabilitation for young men ages 16-20 seeking an alternative to incarceration.
The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…
Provide temporary shelter and assistance to individuals and familes that are homeless in western north carolina.
Provide short-term housing for homeless
Safe Shelter - The LHWS provides unhoused single women and unhoused women with children safe shelter by providing onsite security at all three shelter locations. Keeping these shelters up to date with their proprety maintenance and basic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anderson Interfaith Ministries and the most unlike its peers is The Bridge Center Recovery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 83 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON'S EMERGENCY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF REST RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
- Who funds SHALOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Mary R Ramseur Charitable Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Brett Crowe Memorial · Ta Gambrill Foundation Ct-Main · The Webbcraft Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Anderson County · Sc Josephine Stevenson Trust · Scansource Charitable Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · The Jim and Betty Young Family Foundation Inc · Spartanburg County 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 Abney Foundation 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.
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.
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