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Arkwright Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$970k
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$274k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.1MHealth$679kReligion$483kFood & Nutrition$345kArts & Culture$188kHuman Services$138kYouth Development$78kOther$0
02FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k90 grants · $200k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $416k
  • $250k+1 grant · $274k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PINE STREET SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
LAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY: $100 → 18%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 15%GOFORTH RECOVERY: $9k → 15%GOFORTH RECOVERY: $5k → 15%GOFORTH RECOVERY: $5k → 15%GOFORTH RECOVERY: $3k → 15%GOFORTH RECOVERY: $2k → 15%SAFE HOMES RAPE CRISIS: $1k → 15%GOFORTH RECOVERY: $2k → 15%PROJECT REST: $1k → 15%PROJECT REST: $1k → 15%SAFE HOMES RAPE CRISIS: $1k → 15%SAFE HOMES RAPE CRISIS: $1k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $1k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $1k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $1k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $1k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $1k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $1k → 15%BETHLEHEM CENTER: $500 → 15%BETHLEHEM CENTER: $500 → 15%BETHLEHEM CENTER: $500 → 15%BETHLEHEM CENTER: $500 → 15%BETHLEHEM CENTER: $500 → 15%BETHLEHEM CENTER: $500 → 15%RUTH'S GLEANINGS: $10k → 15%RUTH'S GLEANINGS: $6k → 15%RUTH'S GLEANINGS: $5k → 15%RUTH'S GLEANINGS: $2k → 15%RUTH'S GLEANINGS: $2k → 15%RUTH'S GLEANINGS: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MT
MA
NJ
CT
CO
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 117 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
35

Total granted

$4.4M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+51%

Still filing today

50%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SD
    SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $735k · revenue +77%
  • SM
    SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $620k · revenue +11%
  • HS
    HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $464k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • SA
    SPARTANBURG ARTS- ART PARTNERSHIP GIGNILLIAT SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TA
    THE ARTS PARTNERSHIP OF SPARTANBURG
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • PG
    PEGGY GIGNILLIAT SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $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
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
2
South Carolina Humanities Council Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Spelman College

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.

Education
5
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
6
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
7
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
8
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
9
Spartanburg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
10
Southeastern Universities Research Association Inc

Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.

Science & Tech
11
Spartanburg Science Center

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.

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12
Together 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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 166 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/76
Grantees still filing
56/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL: $735,000 · OtherSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOLEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT: $410,400 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENTHUMMINGBIRD FARM: $287,500 · OtherHUMMINGBIRD FARMSPARTANBURG REGIONAL FOUNDATION: $226,700 · OtherSPARTANBURG REGIONAL FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $161,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC+121 more: $1,080,877 · Other+121 moreSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $619,500 · EducationSPARTANBURG METHODIS…CONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $248,100 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITY+11 more: $59,550 · Education+11 moreSpartanburg County Foundation: $652,050 · PhilanthropySpartanburg Co…HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC: $464,250 · HealthHEALTHY SM…+3 more: $6,000 · HealthBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $51,100 · Arts & CultureCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGLENN SPRINGS PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $10,090 · Arts & CultureHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE: $4,500 · Arts & CultureARTISTS COLLECTIVE SPARTANBURG INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,050 · Arts & CultureGOFORTH RECOVERY: $25,000 · Human ServicesRUTH'S GLEANINGS: $24,600 · Human ServicesTHE ROO CREW: $7,500 · Human ServicesUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT REST: $5,500 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM CENTER: $3,000 · Human Services+3 more: $2,100 · Human ServicesPALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA: $19,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE REMAINS YOUTH RANCH INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIDEWALK HOPE INC: $5,300 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$2,901,477Education$927,150Philanthropy$652,050Health$470,250Arts & Culture$95,740Human Services$73,700Youth Development$37,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL: $735,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $652,050 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $619,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC: $464,250 over 6y, 23% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $248,100 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $161,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $56,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $51,100 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $34,804 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOFORTH RECOVERY: $25,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetWARRIORS ONCE AGAIN: $25,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetRUTH'S GLEANINGS: $24,600 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CHARLES LEA CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $23,700 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetPALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA: $19,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $18,600 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY: $15,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC: $14,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $14,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHUB CITY ANIMAL PROJECT INC: $11,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetHALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS): $11,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGLENN SPRINGS PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $10,090 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetHOPE REMAINS YOUTH RANCH INC: $10,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCLEVELAND OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTYGER RIVER CHAPEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNAMI SPARTANBURG INC: $8,900 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetA Light Unto My Path: $8,100 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKIND OF THE UPSTATE: $8,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetTHE ROO CREW: $7,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetBIRTHMATTERS: $7,150 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM: $6,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGROUP OF 100 INC: $6,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT REST: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIDEWALK HOPE INC: $5,300 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL FITNESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARTISTS COLLECTIVE SPARTANBURG INC: $4,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCHATHAM HALL: $4,300 over 6y, 0.0% 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 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 GOFORTH RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Spartanburg County Fo…J M Smith FoundationMary Black Foundation…Anna M Black Charitab…Milliken & Company Ch…Black & Phillips Foun…United Way of the Pie…Spartanburg Regional …South Carolina Christ…Wr & Eh Floyd Foundat…Balmer FoundationHarry H Gibson Family…
Spartanburg County FoundationSC112.9× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report 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
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Arkwright Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Arkwright 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 166 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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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home