· Private foundation
AWT Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $199k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| LEGACY ADVANCEMENT | $50,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $35,000 |
| THE BARBARA STONE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| ST GERARD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF GREENVILLE | $18,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INCORPORATED | $16,000 |
| PIVOTPOINT WNC | $15,000 |
| COTA CHILDRENS ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION INC | $15,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CLIFFS RESIDENTS OUTREACH INC | $8,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDRENS THEATRE | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of AWT Family 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- CCCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +92%
- TBTHE BARBARA STONE FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $175k · revenue +96%
- PHPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY - CHARLESTON SATELITE OFFICEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- MHMORGANS HOPEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONALone 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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
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…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…
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.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
To identify qualified applicants in order to provide scholarship grants for advanced career educational opportunities that may otherwise go unfulfilled.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Clemson Meals On Wheels Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 70 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 FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BARBARA STONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALDRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFFS RESIDENTS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds PIVOTPOINT WNC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds St Gerard House ↗
- Who funds FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AUXILIARY OF SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR ↗
- Who funds PENDLETON PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BILLFISH FOUNDATION 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: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Neill M Timmons Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · The Jolley Foundation · Spinks Family Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Daniel-Mickel 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 AWT Family 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 Aldrin Family Foundation Inc — 50% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.