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Black & Phillips Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$204k
Granted FY2026still arriving
54
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$186kEducation$181kHealth$160kPhilanthropy$154kReligion$149kArts & Culture$99kCrime & Legal$77kFood & Nutrition$43kOther$0
02FY2026 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k50 grants · $157k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC$12,636
ST LUKE'S FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$12,150
CANCER ASSOCIATION OF SPTBG & CHEROKEE CTY$11,800
CHARLES LEA FOUNDATION$11,000
SPACE$9,500
SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE$9,500
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION$9,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$8,000
WOFFORD COLLEGE$8,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$8,000
HEALTHY SMILES$8,000
SALVATION ARMY$6,000
CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER$5,000
WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN$4,759
YOUNG AMERICANS FOUNDATION$4,750
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 18%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 18%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 18%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 18%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 18%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 18%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 18%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $84k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $13k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $12k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $9k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $8k → 10%GO FORTH RECOVERY: $2k → 15%PROJECT REST (SAFE HOMES RAPE CRISIS CTR): $1k → 15%GO FORTH RECOVERY: $1k → 15%PROJECT REST (SAFE HOMES RAPE CRISIS CTR): $1k → 15%PROJECT REST (SAFE HOMES RAPE CRISIS CTR): $500 → 15%GO FORTH RECOVERY: $500 → 15%GO FORTH RECOVERY: $500 → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
VA
DE
NC
SC
DC
AL
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 65 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2026, 24 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
22

Total granted

$1.3M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+16%

Still filing today

65%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • UW
    UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +134%
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $61k · revenue +17%
  • SP
    SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $49k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • PF
    PROTEZ FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue +394%
  • CB
    CAMPOBELLO BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • TL
    THE LIBRARY & MUSEUM OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR HISTORY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
2
South Carolina Policy Council Education Foundation

The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…

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3
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
4
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.

—
5
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

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…

Community Improvement
6
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
7
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
8
Rebuilding Together Spartanburg Inc

Repair/rehabilitate homes of disadvantaged homeowners in the upstate of sc through rebuilding days as well as special projects with various community groups.

Human Services
9
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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10
Southern Bancorp Capital Partners

Creating economic opportunities in distressed rural communities.

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11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union Inc; the most unlike its peers is Warriors Once Again. 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

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 99 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $146,900 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCHARLES LEA FOUNDATION: $87,374 · OtherCHARLES LEA FOUNDATIONCANCER ASSOCIATION: $56,900 · OtherCANCER ASSOCIATIONSPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $48,756 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGE: $47,900 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $42,514 · OtherHEALTHY SMILES: $42,000 · OtherSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL: $38,500 · OtherSCSDB FOUNDATION: $34,500 · Other+72 more: $425,650 · Other+72 moreUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $125,078 · Human ServicesUPSTATE WAR…THORNWELL: $9,000 · Human ServicesTHORNWELL+2 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC: $61,000 · Crime & LegalANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY: $14,000 · Crime & LegalJUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSpartanburg County Foundation: $78,900 · PhilanthropyST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC: $44,650 · HealthPalmetto Promise Institute: $8,000 · HealthPROTEZ FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $31,500 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $9,500 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $5,293 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR REFORMED THEOLOGY: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationWARRIORS ONCE AGAIN: $35,926 · Housing & ShelterFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $12,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$970,994Human Services$140,078Crime & Legal$80,000Philanthropy$78,900Health$57,650Education$52,293Housing & Shelter$47,926

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $125,078 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $78,900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC: $61,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $48,756 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $47,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC: $44,650 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $42,514 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL: $38,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIORS ONCE AGAIN: $35,926 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetSCSDB FOUNDATION: $34,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $31,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $25,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $18,750 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC: $18,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUPSTATE FOREVER: $18,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGROUP OF 100 INC: $14,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY: $14,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $12,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS): $10,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHORNWELL: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING: $8,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPalmetto Promise Institute: $8,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTYGER RIVER FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSIDEWALK HOPE INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM: $6,150 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $5,293 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR REFORMED THEOLOGY: $5,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGOFORTH RECOVERY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT REST: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SPARTANBURG COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHMATTERS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC ↗
  • Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN ↗
  • Who funds SCSDB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET SPARTANBURG INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds GROUP OF 100 INC ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg ↗
  • Who funds HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) ↗
  • Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THORNWELL ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING ↗
  • Who funds Palmetto Promise Institute ↗

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.

Spartanburg County Fo…Arkwright FoundationJ M Smith FoundationAnna M Black Charitab…Milliken & Company Ch…Mary Black Foundation…South Carolina Christ…Balmer FoundationSpartanburg Regional …Harry H Gibson Family…Betty & James K Stone…Gibbs Charitable Foun…
Spartanburg County FoundationSC72.5× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Balmer Foundation · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Betty & James K Stone Foundation · Gibbs Charitable 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 Black & Phillips Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black & Phillips Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report 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
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.
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How do I get to Black & Phillips Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Black & Phillips Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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