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Barnet Foundation

Charitable and philanthropic endeavors in support of and in conjunction with the Spartanburg county foundation.

$254k
Granted FY2020
12
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

55% of Barnet Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Spartanburg County Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Barnet Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $230k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

15
’17
15
’18
15
’19
11
’20
8
’21
7
’22
7
’23
10
’24
5
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MHealth$630kArts & Culture$489kAnimals$60kHuman Services$50kYouth Development$41kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2020 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $230,418 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $254,008 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,590 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPARTANBURG COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT SEVEN$60,000
CONVERSE COLLEGE$50,000
SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC$25,000
SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION$20,000
THE CHILDREN MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE$18,750
HUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT INC$13,000
UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC$10,000
HUB CITY ANIMAL PROJECT (HCAP) FUND$10,000
INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$8,668
CLEVELAND OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
MENTAL FITNESS INC$5,000
CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Children's Museum of the Upstate Inc: $38k → 10%SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA: $25k → 12%SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $150k → 15%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35k → 16%CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 25%Children's Museum of the Upstate Inc: $38k → 10%SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA: $25k → 12%SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $125k → 15%THE CHILDREN MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE: $19k → 10%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $35k → 15%GIRL SCOUTS MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS: $14k → 10%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $20k → 15%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $290k → 15%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $175k → 15%Spartanburg County Foundation: $160k → 15%HELLO FAMILY FUND: $143k → 15%HELLO FAMILY FUND: $143k → 15%Hello Family Fund: $143k → 15%Spartanburg Philharmonic: $28k → 15%Hello Family Fund: $143k → 15%SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 15%SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION: $110k → 15%SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 15%DISTRICT SEVEN FOUNDATION FUND: $75k → 15%SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 15%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $50k → 15%HATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE INC: $25k → 15%CONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 15%Spartanburg Philharmonic: $25k → 15%CONVERSE COLLEGE: $50k → 15%Spartanburg Philharmonic: $25k → 15%Converse University: $50k → 15%SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 15%Converse University: $30k → 15%SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $25k → 15%THOMAS E HANNAH FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER SPARTANBURG: $25k → 15%Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $103k → 15%SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $103k → 15%SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $103k → 15%WOFFORD COLLEGE: $20k → 15%SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%SPARTANBURG COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT SEVEN: $38k → 15%SPARTANBURG COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT SEVEN: $25k → 15%Spartanburg County School District Seven: $25k → 15%Spartanburg County School District Seven: $22k → 15%SPARTANBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT SEVEN: $17k → 15%SPARTANBURG DISTRICT 7: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 17 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$2.5M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+89%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • CONVERSE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +49%
  • SR
    Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $625k · revenue +58%
  • SP
    SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $203k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -2%
  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +107%
  • CU
    CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +21%

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.

1
Southern Wesleyan University

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.

Education
2
Spalding University Inc

Spalding university is a diverse community of learners dedicated to meeting the needs of the times in the tradition of the sisters of charity of nazareth through quality undergraduate and graduate liberal and professional studies, grounded…

Education
3
Columbia College

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.

Education
4
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
5
South Carolina Humanities Council Inc

The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…

Arts & Culture
6
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
7
Anderson University

The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…

Education
8
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
9
Spartanburg Day School

The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…

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10
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
11
South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities

Scicu seeks to advance higher education in south carolina through fundraising, scholarships, research, as well as facilitating collaborative activities among the member institutions. scicu also enhances a positive public image and…

Education
12
Greenville College

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.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clemson University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hub City Writers Project. 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 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr18%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr14%6%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr18%69%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
13%
850/6,542

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Spartanburg County Foundation — $986,766 · PhilanthropySpartanburg County FoundationCONVERSE UNIVERSITY — $715,000 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITYSPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationSPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEG…CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $34,850 · Education+5 more — $105,000 · Education+5 moreSPARTANBURG SCHOOL DIST 7 — $241,964 · OtherSPARTANBURG SCHOOL DIST…SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC — $202,500 · OtherSPARTANBURG PHILHARMONI…UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $112,910 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDM…WOFFORD COLLEGE — $75,000 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGEYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg — $50,000 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN AS…HATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE IN — $25,000 · Other+5 more — $37,625 · OtherSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation — $625,000 · HealthSpartanburg Regiona…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $93,750 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $84,000 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT — $24,000 · Arts & CultureGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC — $40,500 · Youth DevelopmentMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC — $35,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$986,766Education$904,850Other$744,999Health$625,000Arts & Culture$286,750Youth Development$40,500Food & Nutrition$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSpartanburg County Foundation — $986,766 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY — $715,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation — $625,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC — $202,500 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $112,910 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $93,750 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $84,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $34,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARD VIA VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT — $30,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE IN — $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT — $24,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTH CAROLINA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHUB CITY ANIMAL PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING — $7,625 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMENTAL FITNESS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budget
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.

Spartanburg County Fo…Balmer FoundationArkwright FoundationMary Black Foundation…Milliken & Company Ch…J M Smith FoundationAnna M Black Charitab…Harry H Gibson Family…Duke Energy FoundationFalatok FoundationBetty & James K Stone…Wr & Eh Floyd Foundat…
Spartanburg County FoundationSC50.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · Balmer Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Falatok Foundation · Betty & James K Stone Foundation · Wr & Eh Floyd 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 Barnet 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Barnet Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Barnet Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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