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Arkwright Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k90 grants · $200k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $416k
- $250k+1 grant · $274k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $273,700 |
| SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE | $195,000 |
| HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG | $86,250 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT | $74,900 |
| HUMMINGBIRD FARM | $60,000 |
| SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER | $17,239 |
| TOTAL MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT | $13,500 |
| BALLET SPARTANBURG | $12,000 |
| WOFFORD COLLEGE | $11,394 |
| SPARTANBURG REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $8,600 |
| RUTH'S GLEANINGS | $5,600 |
| SPARTANBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| PINE STREET SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
117 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 13 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- SDSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $735k · revenue +77%
- SMSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $620k · revenue +11%
- HSHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC6× · 2019–2024 · $464k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TATHE ARTS PARTNERSHIP OF SPARTANBURGone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SASPARTANBURG ARTS- ART PARTNERSHIP GIGNILLIAT SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $10k
- PGPEGGY GIGNILLIAT SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…
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.
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
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…
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
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…
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.
To provide science enrichment and interactive educational programs and exhibits to supplement and enhance the science education of children and adults of spartanburg county sc.
To unite, strengthen, and advance our state's nonprofit community, so we may enrich the quality of life for all. to: 1. harness the collective power of those working for the greater good through advocacy and collaboration among nonprofit…
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 The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 166 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 SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds TOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET SPARTANBURG INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN ↗
- Who funds GOFORTH RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds RUTH'S GLEANINGS ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES LEA CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Spartanburg County Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Wr & Eh Floyd Foundation · Balmer 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 Arkwright 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
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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