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Anna M Black Charitable 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.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Religion$158kEducation$67kArts & Culture$33kPhilanthropy$29kCrime & Legal$21kHuman Services$19kHealth$17kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$659k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$18,208
PARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING$3,000
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION$2,900
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$2,200
BALLET SPARTANBURG$2,000
HATCHER GARDENS$2,000
TAMASSEE DAR SCHOOL$1,950
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT$1,907
MERCY CHEFS$1,500
HAND IN HAND$1,250
TOTAL MINISTRIES$1,228
WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN$1,047
THE PIEDMONT CLUB$1,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$1,000
SC BATTLEGROUND TRUST$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MERCY CHEFS: $2k → 20%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $621 → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $500 → 10%SAFE HOMES RAPE CRISIS: $1k → 15%PROJECT REST: $1k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $1k → 15%PROJECT REST: $1k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

PA
NJ
CO
VA
NC
SC
DC
AL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$335k · 33 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
14

Total granted

$335k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+22%

Still filing today

76%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • WOFFORD COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +52%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2022 · $13k · revenue +248%
  • CC
    CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • KC
    KID'S CLUBS UPSTATE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • TD
    T DAR SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hub City Roots

The hub city farmers' market is a nonprofit community organization that aims to increase supply, demand, and access to healthy, local foods in spartanburg, south carolina.

Food & Nutrition
2
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
3
Rebuilding Together Spartanburg Inc

Repair/rehabilitate homes of disadvantaged homeowners in the upstate of sc through rebuilding days as well as special projects with various community groups.

Human Services
4
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
5
Spartanburg County Historical Assoc

The mission of the spartanburg county historical association is to explore and preserve our regions history by collecting and sharing the stories and artifacts of the people who shaped that history.

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6
Spalding University Inc

Spalding university is a diverse community of learners dedicated to meeting the needs of the times in the tradition of the sisters of charity of nazareth through quality undergraduate and graduate liberal and professional studies, grounded…

Education
7
Strategic Spartanburg Inc

To report on data and engage the community in dialogue and strategy that leads to positive change in spartanburg county.

Community Improvement
8
Southern Bancorp Capital Partners

Creating economic opportunities in distressed rural communities.

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9
South Carolina Policy Council Education Foundation

The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…

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10
Regenesis Health Care Inc

We strive to give health services to residents in and around the spartanburg, cherokee, and union sc areas. we believe that services to families can make a difference in the community, helping neighbors move towards healthier lifestyles…

Health
11
Board of Control for Southern Regional Education

The board of control for southern regional education shall be devoted to the task of assisting states, institutions and agencies concerned with higher education in their efforts to advance knowledge and to improve the social and economic…

Education
12
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hub City Writers Project. 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr13%23%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr21%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%6%10–20yr13%25%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr21%44%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/45
the rest of the field
12%
503/4,081

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $156,823 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHWOFFORD COLLEGE — $20,000 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGETYGER RIVER CHAPEL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION — $12,914 · Other+50 more — $101,917 · Other+50 moreCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET SPARTANBURG INC — $8,300 · Arts & CultureHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT — $6,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $500 · Arts & CultureSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE — $10,500 · EducationADULT LEARNING CENTER — $4,000 · EducationSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT — $3,814 · EducationMONTREAT COLLEGE — $1,500 · EducationST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC — $4,500 · HealthHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC — $2,600 · HealthPalmetto Promise Institute — $1,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $750 · HealthUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC — $3,121 · Human ServicesPROJECT REST — $3,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC — $6,200 · Crime & LegalSpartanburg County Foundation — $3,900 · Philanthropy
Other$306,654Arts & Culture$25,800Education$19,814Health$8,850Human Services$7,621Crime & Legal$6,200Philanthropy$3,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTYGER RIVER CHAPEL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION — $12,914 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET SPARTANBURG INC — $8,300 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTamassee DAR School Inc — $7,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM — $7,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC — $6,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT — $6,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADULT LEARNING CENTER — $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation — $3,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT — $3,814 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC — $3,228 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC — $3,121 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT REST — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC — $2,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIDEWALK HOPE INC — $2,400 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHARLES LEA CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $2,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAT COLLEGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS UPSTATE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW DAY INC OF SPARTANBURG — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPalmetto Promise Institute — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHMATTERS — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUB CITY ANIMAL PROJECT INC — $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Spartanburg County Fo…Arkwright FoundationBlack & Phillips Foun…J M Smith FoundationMilliken & Company Ch…Wr & Eh Floyd Foundat…Balmer FoundationUnited Way of the Pie…Mary Black Foundation…Betty & James K Stone…Gibbs Charitable Foun…Harry H Gibson Family…
Spartanburg County FoundationSC70.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · J M Smith Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Wr & Eh Floyd Foundation · Balmer Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Betty & James K Stone Foundation · Gibbs Charitable Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family 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 Anna M Black Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Anna M Black Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Anna M Black Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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