· Private foundation
Bill and Connie Timmons 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $637k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $271k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF HANCOCK INC | $250,000 |
| SALEM ACADEMY & COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| RATIO CHRISTI INC | $90,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $81,250 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY GREENVILLE | $40,000 |
| POWER FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
| GREENVILLE THEATRE | $35,000 |
| DELMARVA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $32,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INCORPORATED | $31,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $30,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $572k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $908k · revenue +26%
- RCRatio Christi Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $610k · revenue +79%
- PAPARENTS AND FRIENDS OF HANCOCK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +70%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
- PEP E R C INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -58%
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.
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.
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.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
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.
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.
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
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…
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
To identify qualified applicants in order to provide scholarship grants for advanced career educational opportunities that may otherwise go unfulfilled.
How this is measured
90 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. 90 of the 108 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ratio Christi Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF HANCOCK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds The Power Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC ↗
- Who funds THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Delmarva Education Association ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERRIIS INC ↗
- Who funds SELF REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
- Who funds BOUNTIFUL DAVIS ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Palmetto Promise Institute ↗
- Who funds CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · AWT Family Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Spinks Family Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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