· Private foundation
Betty & James K Stone 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL | $66,000 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| LA ANNA METHODIST CHURCH | $23,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE ADVENT | $20,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,556 |
| CONVERSE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| SPARTANBURG REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,800 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $6,059 |
| SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| PROJECT REST | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIRDS OF AWENDAW SC | $5,000 |
| PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON | $5,000 |
| GOFORTH RECOVERY | $5,000 |
| GIVEBUTTER | $4,752 |
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 (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- SDSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $644k · revenue +22%
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +55%- PFPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING4× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- CCCOASTAL COMMUNITY FUND NORTHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SCSC CENTER FOR BIRDS OF PREYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- COCENTER OR BIRDS OF AWENDAW SCone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
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…
Fuel south carolina's innovation economy by accelerating technology-enabled growth in research, academia, entrepreneurship and industry.
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…
Sc economics is the only sc non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to improving economic education and financial literacy by preparing teachers and students to be active, successful, and prosperous members of our global economy.
The board of control for southern regional education shall be devoted to the task of assisting states, institutions and agencies concerned with higher education in their efforts to advance knowledge and to improve the social and economic…
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.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 49 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) — 0% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 99 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 SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING ↗
- Who funds GOFORTH RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REST ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DIRECTORS' INVITATIONAL SKI CLASSIC ↗
- Who funds GROUP OF 100 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: Spartanburg County Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Balmer Foundation · Gibbs Charitable Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc
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 Betty & James K Stone 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.