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Barnes-Wall Foundation at a glance

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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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$5kEducation$5kHuman Services$2kReligion$1kCivil Rights$1kHousing & Shelter$500Public Safety & Disaster$441International$400Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
4
States reached
$84k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZION CHURCH FOOD PANTRY$3,000
EPWORTH CHILDRENS HOME$600
Individual grant recipient$500
AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION$500
OLIVER GOSPEL MINISTRY$400
COOPERATIVE MINSITRY$200
PALMETTO LIFELINE$100
Individual grant recipient$100
PALMETTO PROJECT$100
UMC GLOBAL MINISTRIES$100
Individual grant recipient$100
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EPWORTH CHILDRENS HOME: $600 → 16%EPWORTH CHILDRENS HOME: $100 → 16%COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $100 → 16%THE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $100 → 16%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.
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8k · 9 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$8k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+26%

Still filing today

56%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • THE CITADEL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +20%
  • FA
    FREEDOM AND HOPE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue -12%
  • U
    UMCOR
    3× · 2022–2024 · $900

Funded once

  • ZU
    ZION UM CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • MS
    METHODIST STUDENT NETWORK AT USC
    one grant, 2022 · $500
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
Carolina Childrens Home

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

Human Services
2
Hope Missions of the Upstate

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.

Religion
3
Department of Sc Vfw of United States

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…

Public Benefit
4
Switch

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.

Human Services
5
Palmetto Care Connections

To assist providers in keeping health care local and connecting rural and underserved South Carolinians to quality services through broadband, technology, and telehealth.

Health
6
South Carolina National Guard Foundation

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…

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7
South Carolina Military Scholarship & Family Care Association Inc

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.

Education
8
Veterans Life Center

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
South Carolina Military Support Foundation

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.

Public Benefit
10
South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership

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.

Community Improvement
11
Palmetto Mwr Inc

Assist in scholarships for MIL families

Public Benefit
12
South Carolina Ems Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Citadel Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 33 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ZION CHURCH FOOD PANTRY: $3,000 · OtherZION CHURCH FOOD PANTRYZION UM CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherZION UM CHURCHUMCOR: $900 · OtherUMCORZION UMC FOOD PANTRY: $750 · OtherZION UMC FOOD PANTRYAMALGAMATED FOUNDATION: $500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $500 · OtherMETHODIST STUDENT NETWORK AT USC: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherPALMETTO PROJECT INC: $400 · OtherOLIVER GOSPEL MINISTRY: $400 · Other+15 more: $1,641 · Other+15 moreTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EducationTHE CITADEL FOUNDATIONFREEDOM AND HOPE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationFREEDOM AND HOPE FOUNDATION+1 more: $50 · EducationEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $700 · Human ServicesThe Cooperative Ministry: $200 · Human ServicesPAWMETTO LIFELINE: $100 · AnimalsOliver Gospel Mission: $100 · ReligionTHE WOMEN'S SHELTER: $100 · Health
Other$10,091Education$5,050Human Services$900Animals$100Religion$100Health$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM AND HOPE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALMETTO PROJECT INC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cooperative Ministry: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOliver Gospel Mission: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S SHELTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION: $41 over 1y, 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 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 PAWMETTO LIFELINE ↗
  • Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds ARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Dorothy D Smith Chari…Michael J Mungo Found…Dominion Energy Chari…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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