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Bannon Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $172k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $110,000 |
| IPTAY | $62,000 |
| ROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE | $5,000 |
| MISSOULA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GREENVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MAULDIN MIRACLE LEAGUE | $1,500 |
| SAFE HARBOR | $1,500 |
| HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- IIPTAY5× · 2019–2024 · $222k · revenue +18%
- AYAMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS3× · 2019–2021 · $90k · revenue +33%
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- COCITY OF GRAND FORKSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- GTGREENVILE TECH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SEST ELIZABETH ANN SETON CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
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…
The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
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 furnish protection and advocacy services to south carolinians with disabilities
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The educational trust operates exclusively for the benefit of, and to carry out the purposes of, the university of south carolina school of medicine and the greater university of south carolina. its main purposes are to augment and aid…
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greer Community Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Service Dogs for Veterans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 36 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 IPTAY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds ROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS SEARCH & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds GREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA LOVING HOUND RESCUE ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bannon 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
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