How much did BETTY JAMES AND WALTER S grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of BETTY JAMES AND WALTER S’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

conservationvolunteer fire

2019

conservationvolunteer firespartanburgtree

2020

conservationvolunteer firehorticulturalspartanburg

2021

conservationvolunteer fire

2022

conservation

2023

fire depttree

2024

spartanburg

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $11k
$10k–50k1 grant · $14k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION$14,000
OAKWOOD CEMETARY$3,000
GARDEN CONSERVANCY$2,500
SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL$2,000
GROUP OF 100$1,000
HATCHER GARDEN$1,000
SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,000
MEN'S GARDEN CLUB$500

02The need

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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 6%. 83% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$76k · 14 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$76k

$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+54%

Still filing today

43%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

TG
THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY
7× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +52%
TG
THE GROUP OF 100 INC
4× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +15%
SM
SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE
2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +27%

Funded once

CONVERSE COLLEGEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +54%
CS
CHRIST SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +2%
SF
SCC FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $1k

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.

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

Greensboro College

An academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values.

Education

Spalding University Inc

Spalding university is a co-educational, independent institution accredited by the southern association of colleges and schools as a doctoral level institution. the university offers programs in business, nursing, occupational therapy,…

Education

South Carolina Independent Colleges and

Scicu supports and promotes the values of independent higher education in south carolina.

Education

Wofford College

The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality.

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Shorter University

Shorter University is a private Christian non-profit comprehensive liberal arts institution.

Education

Simpson College

A residential, coeducation, undergraduate liberal arts college.

Education

Shorecrest Preparatory School Inc

Sps is a college preparatory school that educates lifelong learners.

Education

Limestone University

Limestone university is a four-year, liberal arts institution in gaffney, sc. established in 1845, limestone offers masters, bachelor and associate degrees through traditional and non-traditional educational opportunities.

Education

South Central College Foundation

To hold, invest, or expend donations for the development of education.

—

Saint Anselm College

A catholic, benedictine college providing all its students a distinctive. (see schedule o).liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation.

Education

South Carolina Council On

Providing actionable research, supporting industry clusters, and furthering education and workforce development.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spartanburg Day School and the most unlike its peers is American Horticultural Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

13/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$46,395Education$25,900Environment$20,303Philanthropy$14,000Recreation & Sports$4,000

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.

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 FoundationSC28.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · Betty & James K Stone Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Arkwright Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Rose and Walter Montgomery Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Ge Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Balmer Foundation · Mary Black Foundation 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 organisation BETTY JAMES AND WALTER S 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE GROUP OF 100 INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~907 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 582480621 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE GROUP OF 100 INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 907 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Betty James and Walter S?

Find your warmest path to Betty James and Walter S through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BETTY JAMES AND WALTER S

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Betty James and Walter S?

More from the funding graph

BETTY JAMES AND WALTER S

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Betty James and Walter S?

More from the funding graph