· Private foundation
Aiken Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNA HOUSE | $200,000 |
| MERCY MEDICINE CLINIC | $200,000 |
| FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY FDN | $170,000 |
| FLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES FDN | $165,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC | $100,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $100,000 |
| HARVEST FOOD BANK | $95,000 |
| HOPE FUND ENDOWMENT | $75,000 |
| FLORENCE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $70,000 |
| YOUTH MENTORS OF THE PEE DEE | $70,000 |
| PEE DEE REGIONAL CENTER VOLUNTEER | $65,000 |
| CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $59,494 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| BOYS & GIRL CLUBS OF THE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k 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
- TMTHE MANNA HOUSE4× · 2017–2020 · $235k · revenue +269% · 59% of their budget
- FCFLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $195k · revenue +426% · 91% of their budget
- LMLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE4× · 2017–2020 · $115k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- RCROTARY CLUB OF FLORENCEone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Provide housing and temporary shelter for homeless persons.
The mission of the Montessori School of Florence is to make available to the children and families of Florence, South Carolina and its surrounding area, both pre-school and elementary education of the highest quality, consistent with the…
To provide historical and art exhibits and education for children and adults.
Serving as a fine arts support organization for the florence county museum, an administrative division and instrumentatality of florence county, south carolina.
The florentine opera company is driven to produce the full range of operatic works reflecting the highest musical and theatrical standards, and to support community and education programs that foster the current and next generation of…
To inspire the individuals we serve to live life to the fullest.
Putting god's love into action, hfh brings people together to build homes, communities and hope by making decent, affordable housing available to more families. habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and make decent…
Our mission is to alleviate hunger in western lane county, oregon.
Maintain and display of the historic florence depot, florence bank, florence fire company, and florence city hall for the general public.
We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of children from economically challenged families with the goal of preparing children for a lifetime commitment to learning and empowering their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florence County Disabilities Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Masterworks Choir Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 THE MANNA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELP 4 KIDS FLORENCE ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE LITTLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Hopehealth Inc ↗
- Who funds MASTERWORKS CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE CLOTHING CLOSET INC ↗
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: Eastern Carolina Community Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Betty S Campbell Charitable Foundation · Hm and Pearl Kyle Foundation Inc · Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Aiken Foundation 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.
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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