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Barnes-Wall 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZION CHURCH FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| EPWORTH CHILDRENS HOME | $600 |
| AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| OLIVER GOSPEL MINISTRY | $400 |
| COOPERATIVE MINSITRY | $200 |
| PALMETTO LIFELINE | $100 |
| UMC GLOBAL MINISTRIES | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| PALMETTO PROJECT | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
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 (FY22–25, $900) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
THE CITADEL FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +20%- FAFREEDOM AND HOPE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue -12%
- UUMCOR3× · 2022–2024 · $900
Funded once
- ZUZION UM CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $1k
- MSMETHODIST STUDENT NETWORK AT USCone grant, 2022 · $500
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2023 · $500
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 mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families
HOPE Missions exists for all who are marginalized and living in poverty to experience acceptance in Christ, live in sustainable housing, and joyfully engage in supportive community.
The mission of the sc veterans of foreign wars of the united states is to assist worthy comrades, to perpetuate the memory of the dead and to assist their widows and orphans, to maintain true allegiance to the government of the untied…
Switch's mission is to end human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the upstate of south carolina focusing on awareness, demand, intervention, prevention and restoration.
To assist providers in keeping health care local and connecting rural and underserved South Carolinians to quality services through broadband, technology, and telehealth.
Support, promote, and defend the south carolina national guard and the ideals of service and sacrifice exemplified by its members and their families. the foundation serves and sustains the men and women of the south carolina national guard…
To provide scholarships to members of the south carolina national guard or dependents of national guard members and to provide emergency financial support to national guard members for needs resulting from mobilization for active duty.
The veterans life center is a residential program designed to help at-risk 21st century veterans. it is our goal to provide each of our residents the prospect of a constructive and personally satisfying role in civil society. by…
To receive, administer, and expend funds for the sc military to protect lives and properties during times of emergencies and to recognize those who served in the south carolina department and the united states.
SCMEP is a strategic advisor, promoting business growth and connecting manufacturers to public and private resources essential to their achieving increased competitiveness and profitability. See Sch O for additional information.
Assist in scholarships for MIL families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Citadel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Freedom and Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 33 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 THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM AND HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Cooperative Ministry ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds PAWMETTO LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds ARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Barnes-Wall 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.
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.