How much did ARRAS FOUNDATION grant in FY2022?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of ARRAS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

bounce backpartnership ortonorton heartheart soulwaterfort lawnyouth

2019

carerecipientartspartnership ortonorton heartheart soulyouth

2020

wayhealthy capitalkershawrecipientinvestmentpartnershipdistrict's system

2021

childhoodrecipientkershawinvestmenthealthy capital

2022

honoraria trusteetrustee spartanburgspartanburg tourthrulunchlearnmakerspace steam

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2022 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k13 grants · $27k
$10k–50k6 grants · $143k
$50k–250k5 grants · $500k

$5,040

Median grant

States reached

$77M

Total assets

Largest grants

LANCASTER PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD$150,000
LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS$120,000
KERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE (KARE)$110,000
GRASP - GREAT FALLS REFERRAL AND ASSISTANCE$64,500
A FATHER'S WAY - LANCASTER FATHERHOOD PROJECT$55,000
HOPE IN LANCASTER INC$49,919
LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS$31,497
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
CHESTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$16,445
KERSHAW COMMUNITY PARK COUNCIL INC$10,454
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF USC LANCASTER$10,000
UPPER PALMETTO YMCA$5,040
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF USC LANCASTER$5,000
LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS$3,000
LANCASTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$2,000

02The need

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 (FY18–22, $504k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 13% of ARRAS FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

ARRAS FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.9M · 23 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2022, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.9M

$953k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+65%

Still filing today

52%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $273k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationOther

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

HI
HOPE IN LANCASTER INC
5× · 2018–2022 · $868k · revenue +31% · 29% of their budget
LC
LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS
5× · 2018–2022 · $456k · revenue +96% · 51% of their budget
CS
CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC
3× · 2018–2021 · $148k · revenue +42%

Funded once

LC
LANCASTER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $260k · revenue +1363%
K
KAREgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $115k · revenue +65%
HA
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC
one grant, 2018 · $82k

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.

United Way of Lancaster County Inc

To improve lives by bringing residents and resources together to identify and respond to human service needs in lancaster county.

Philanthropy

Lancaster County Agricultural

Provide fair and event facilities for lancaster county, nebraska

Recreation & Sports

Lancaster Community Safety

Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.

Public Safety & Disaster

Care-Net of Lancaster

The best healthcare, for the lowest cost, for the most people.

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Lancaster Childrens Home

The lancaster childrens home is committed to providing comprehensive treatment services to children of need in the most effective and least restrictive setting possible.

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Lancaster County Chamber of

Support member businesses through education and promotion, and support the quality of life in lancaster county through promoting compatible economic development.

Community Improvement

Lawrenceville Corporation

To act as a catalyst and conduit for responsible growth and reinvestment in the Lawrenceville community.

Community Improvement

Lancaster County Council On Aging

The mission of the lancaster county council on aging is to provide a system of coordinated and comprehensive services to enable older persons of lancaster county to continue to maintain their independence.

Human Services

South Carolina Council On

Providing actionable research, supporting industry clusters, and furthering education and workforce development.

Community Improvement

Lancaster Emergency Medical

To provide comprehensive, skillful, cost effective emergency and non- emergency health care services to the lancaster community while continuing to evolve with changing health care needs.

Health

The Arc of Lancaster County

Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.

Health

Lexington Playcare Center Inc

Educational childcare for preschool and toddler children

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is The Lancaster County Partners for Youth. 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 31 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 10% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

10%

3/30

the rest of the field

17%

1,438/8,399

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.

06the grantee network

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/28

Grantees still filing

20/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,568,305Human Services$1,372,425Arts & Culture$456,341Education$320,596Recreation & Sports$220,486Public Benefit$107,168Philanthropy$87,000

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.

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.

The Springs Close Foundation IncSC29× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Springs Close Foundation Inc · Nutramax Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · John T Stevens Foundation · Central Carolina Community · United Way of Chester County In · Comporium Foundation Inc · Chester Healthcare Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 organisation ARRAS 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KERSHAW COMMUNITY PARK COUNCIL INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 275466236 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KERSHAW COMMUNITY PARK COUNCIL INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 73% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Arras Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Arras Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ARRAS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arras Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ARRAS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arras Foundation?

More from the funding graph