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BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+31 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Prisma Health | $2,829,874 |
| SC Free Clinic Association | $1,335,000 |
| Spartanburg Academic Movement | $1,000,000 |
| SC Network of Childrens Advocacy Centers | $850,000 |
| MUSC Foundation | $758,333 |
| Mental Health America of Greenville County | $663,270 |
| MUSC Foundation | $647,000 |
| SC Research Foundation | $625,000 |
| SC Research Foundation | $621,307 |
| Brookland Center for Community Economic Change | $620,000 |
| SC Department of Social Services | $615,638 |
| Alliance for a Healthier Generation Inc | $587,500 |
| USC Educational Foundation | $540,000 |
| SC Office of Rural Health | $493,658 |
| SC Research Foundation | $487,404 |
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, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 11 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M 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
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA FREE CLINIC ASSOC6× · 2020–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +355%
- NSNAMI SOUTH CAROLINA6× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +10% · 47% of their budget
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +20%
Funded once
- SRSenior Resources Incone grant, 2020 · $800k · revenue -19%
- TCTHE CAROLINAS CENTER FOR HOSPICE AND END OF LIFE CAREone grant, 2020 · $726k · revenue -47%
- SCSouth Carolina Department of Social Servicesone grant, 2023 · $466k
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.
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
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…
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Provide education on topics relating to current public health issues
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caresouth Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is De Beaumont Foundation Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 113 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 South Carolina Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA FREE CLINIC ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Midlands ↗
- Who funds NAMI SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Health Sciences South Carolina ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds SC Office of Rural Health Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds SC Thrive ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RURAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
- Who funds WHOLESPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds Affinity Health Center ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds THE CAROLINAS CENTER FOR HOSPICE AND END OF LIFE CARE ↗
- Who funds CARESOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds TANDEM HEALTH SC ↗
- Who funds Hopehealth Inc ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Duke Endowment · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Spartanburg County Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Reach Out and Read Inc · Delta Dental of Missouri · Duke Energy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Molina Healthcare Charitable Foundation · Children's Trust of South Carolina · New Morning
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 BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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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