· Private foundation
Black & Phillips Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k58 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION | $83,878 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $24,400 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $24,000 |
| CHARLES LEA FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN | $6,666 |
| PROTEZ FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEALTHY SMILES | $5,000 |
| ST LUKE'S FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $4,500 |
| SC SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & BLIND | $4,000 |
| KIDS CLUBS UPSTATE (BOYS & GIRLS CLUB) | $4,000 |
| SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| BALLET SPARTANBURG | $3,750 |
| HATCHER GARDENS | $3,500 |
| ANGELS CHARGE MINISTRY | $3,500 |
| USC UPSTATE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- UWUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +213%
- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +17%
WOFFORD COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CBCAMPOBELLO BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $3k
- TLTHE LIBRARY & MUSEUM OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR HISTORYone grant, 2023 · $3k
- SCSPARTANBURG COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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…
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
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.
Repair/rehabilitate homes of disadvantaged homeowners in the upstate of sc through rebuilding days as well as special projects with various community groups.
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…
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…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Creating economic opportunities in distressed rural communities.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Our mission is to protect our state's hunting heritage and ensure this sports future for generations to come.
South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
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 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.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 88 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 UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC ↗
- 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 UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GROUP OF 100 INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds THORNWELL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING ↗
- Who funds Palmetto Promise Institute ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · 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
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 Black & Phillips Foundation Inc 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.
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