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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$5.7MReligion$1.7MHealth$735kFood & Nutrition$481kHuman Services$358kAnimals$275kHousing & Shelter$214kYouth Development$124kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $445k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$200,000
SECOND CHANCE CHURCH$150,000
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$150,000
MUSCHOLLINGS CANCER CENTER$100,000
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY$100,000
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$100,000
WOFFORD COLLEGE$100,000
THE CITADEL$100,000
LANDER UNIVERSITY$100,000
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE$100,000
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
INSPIRE ABILITIES OF ANDERSON$50,000
ANDERSON COUNTY PAWS$50,000
ANDERSON FREE CLINIC$30,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $50k → 18%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 18%CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $10k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $10k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $10k → 15%ANDERSON AREA YMCA: $10k → 15%CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $7k → 15%CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 15%CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CTR FOR EXCEPTIONAL: $4k → 15%THE BRIDGE CENTER RECOVERY: $20k → 15%ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%NEW FOUNDATIONS HOME OF CHILDREN: $10k → 15%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 50 repeat orgs$583k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
11

Total granted

$9.4M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+8%

Still filing today

56%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AU
    ANDERSON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $850k · revenue +74%
  • CU
    CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +17%
  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • THE CITADEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -21%
  • SM
    SOUTH MAIN STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • AS
    Anderson School District 5 Homeless Program
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Anderson Christian School Inc

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.

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2
Anderson University Inc

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…

Education
3
South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes

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.

Health
4
Southeastern Carolina Crossroads Inc

Southeastern carolina crossroads is an organization designed to provide a positive atmosphere and faith based help and hope for men to overcome addiction.

Health
5
Southlight Healthcare Inc

Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.

Health
6
Wesley Commons

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…

Human Services
7
Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina

To provide food and shelter for the homeless

Housing & Shelter
8
Paul Anderson Youth Home Inc

The paul anderson youth home (payh) is a residential home providing christian rehabilitation for young men ages 16-20 seeking an alternative to incarceration.

Human Services
9
Anderson County Community Action Inc

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,…

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10
Hurlburt-Johnson Friendship House Inc

Provide temporary shelter and assistance to individuals and familes that are homeless in western north carolina.

Housing & Shelter
11
Anson County Homes of Hope

Provide short-term housing for homeless

Housing & Shelter
12
The Life House Women's Shelter Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anderson Interfaith Ministries; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 73 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Second Chance Church: $1,425,000 · OtherSecond Chance ChurchMUSCHOLLINGS CANCER CENTER: $1,150,000 · OtherMUSCHOLLINGS CANCER CENTERCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $650,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYTRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $450,000 · OtherTRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGELANDER UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · OtherLANDER UNIVERSITYANDERSON COUNTY SC: $300,000 · OtherTHE CITADEL: $300,000 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGE: $250,000 · Other+39 more: $1,397,350 · Other+39 moreANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $850,000 · EducationANDERSON UNIVERSITYCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $650,000 · EducationCLAFLIN UNIVERSITYSOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationSOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIV…CONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITYTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $450,000 · Housing & ShelterHAVEN OF REST RESCUE MISSION: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $55,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterANDERSON'S EMERGENCY KITCHEN INC: $305,000 · Human ServicesConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries: $70,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA: $40,000 · Human ServicesCALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $33,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE CENTER RECOVERY: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $23,500 · Human ServicesANDERSON FREE CLINIC: $120,000 · HealthFIRST LIGHT: $105,000 · HealthCANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON: $100,000 · HealthSHALOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $69,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $70,000 · Arts & CulturePEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $26,500 · Arts & CulturePLAYSAFE: $40,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$6,372,350Education$1,950,000Housing & Shelter$600,500Human Services$511,500Health$404,000Arts & Culture$96,500Recreation & Sports$40,000

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 budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $850,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $650,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANDERSON'S EMERGENCY KITCHEN INC: $305,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANDERSON FREE CLINIC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFIRST LIGHT: $105,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON: $100,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAVEN OF REST RESCUE MISSION: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $69,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY: $65,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $55,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLAYSAFE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ANDERSON COUNTY INC: $33,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $33,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $26,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOME WITH A HEART: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMARY SUNSHINE HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE CENTER RECOVERY: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR CUPBOARD: $20,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSERVANTS FOR SIGHT: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVETS HELPING VETS ANDERSON: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNEW FOUNDATIONS HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOT PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetASHER HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAMPIONS CENTER: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFoothills Community Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 CANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN OF REST RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
  • Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds PLAYSAFE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ANDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗

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.

Dabo's All in Team Fo…Mary R Ramseur Charit…Duke Energy FoundationBrett Crowe MemorialTa Gambrill Foundatio…The Webbcraft Family …United Way of Anderso…Sc Josephine Stevenso…Scansource Charitable…South Carolina Christ…The Jim and Betty You…Spartanburg County Fo…
Dabo's All in Team FoundationSC36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Abney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Abney Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Abney 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 73 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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