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BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation at a glance

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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.

$21M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$58MEducation$21MScience & Tech$15MHuman Services$3.2MCivil Rights$2.7MYouth Development$2.1MPublic Benefit$1.5MEnvironment$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+31 grants · $18M
$300,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$396M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY20–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Brookland Center for Community Economic Change: $620k → 11%Senior Resources: $800k → 16%Anderson Interfaith Ministries: $50k → 15%Epworth Children's Home: $387k → 16%Epworth Children's Home: $372k → 16%Epworth Children's Home: $320k → 16%Epworth Children's Home: $160k → 16%Epworth Children's Home: $160k → 16%East Cooper Community Outreach: $86k → 12%Landmarks for Families: $166k → 12%Carolina Youth Development Center: $150k → 12%Carolina Youth Development Center: $150k → 12%Carolina Youth Development Center: $150k → 12%Healthy Learners: $242k → 16%Healthy Learners: $150k → 16%Healthy Learners: $150k → 16%Healthy Learners: $121k → 16%Healthy Learners: $113k → 16%Healthy Learners: $113k → 16%Healthy Learners: $111k → 16%Healthy Learners: $100k → 16%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

MA
OR
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99M · 75 repeat orgs$7.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
25

Total granted

$99M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-4%

Still filing today

61%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropySocial ScienceHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA FREE CLINIC ASSOC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +355%
  • PH
    Prisma Health
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +149%
  • PH
    Prisma Health-Midlands
    4× · 2020–2023 · $5.4M · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SR
    Senior Resources Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $800k · revenue -19%
  • TC
    THE CAROLINAS CENTER FOR HOSPICE AND END OF LIFE CARE
    one grant, 2020 · $726k · revenue -47%
  • SC
    South Carolina Department of Social Services
    one grant, 2023 · $466k
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
Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.

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2
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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3
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
4
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
5
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
6
Conway Hospital Community Services

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.

Health
7
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
8
South Carolina Public Health Associ

Provide education on topics relating to current public health issues

Health
9
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
10
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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11
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

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.

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12
Tri-County Community Health Council Inc

Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caresouth Carolina Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 113 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
46/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

South Carolina Research Foundation: $12,387,840 · OtherSouth Carolina Research FoundationMUSC Foundation: $6,878,562 · OtherMUSC FoundationSC Department of Mental Health: $3,665,476 · OtherSC Department of Mental HealthSC Infant Mental Health Association: $3,148,656 · OtherSC Infant Mental Health AssociationNAMI SOUTH CAROLINA: $3,036,175 · OtherSC Department of Health and Environmental Control: $2,918,973 · OtherSC Network of Childrens Advocacy Centers: $2,717,677 · OtherChildren's Trust SC: $2,694,291 · Other+56 more: $21,007,101 · Other+56 moreSOUTH CAROLINA FREE CLINIC ASSOC: $7,285,000 · HealthSOUTH CAROLINA FREE CLINIC ASSOCPrisma Health: $5,570,404 · HealthPrisma HealthPrisma Health-Midlands: $5,430,861 · HealthPrisma Health-MidlandsHealth Sciences South Carolina: $2,474,669 · HealthHealth Sciences South CarolinaMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $2,201,723 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREENVIL…SC Office of Rural Health Inc: $1,703,064 · HealthSC Office of Rural Health Inc+16 more: $6,653,448 · Health+16 moreSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $2,000,000 · EducationUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $1,890,000 · EducationWHOLESPIRE INC: $902,563 · EducationCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $729,000 · EducationEDWARD VIA VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $630,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $385,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $325,000 · Education+8 more: $1,041,506 · EducationEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $1,398,160 · Human ServicesHEALTHY LEARNERS: $1,100,109 · Human ServicesSenior Resources Inc: $800,000 · Human ServicesBROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE: $620,000 · Human ServicesLandmarks for Families Inc: $616,000 · Human Services+3 more: $286,211 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC: $1,595,174 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentSC Thrive: $1,545,000 · Science & TechBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $1,255,750 · Environment
Other$58,454,751Health$31,319,169Education$7,903,069Human Services$4,820,480Youth Development$1,745,174Science & Tech$1,545,000Environment$1,255,750

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 budgetSouth Carolina Research Foundation: $12,387,840 over 6y, 53% of budgetPrisma Health: $5,570,404 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPrisma Health-Midlands: $5,430,861 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI SOUTH CAROLINA: $3,036,175 over 6y, 47% of budgetHealth Sciences South Carolina: $2,474,669 over 5y, 13% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $2,201,723 over 5y, 31% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $2,000,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $1,890,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSC Office of Rural Health Inc: $1,703,064 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC: $1,595,174 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetSC Thrive: $1,545,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $1,398,160 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $1,255,750 over 5y, 11% of budgetRURAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $1,219,179 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS: $1,100,109 over 6y, 15% of budgetWHOLESPIRE INC: $902,563 over 3y, 29% of budgetSenior Resources Inc: $800,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAffinity Health Center: $775,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $729,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetCARESOUTH CAROLINA INC: $712,286 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTANDEM HEALTH SC: $695,990 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHopehealth Inc: $685,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc: $666,667 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $663,944 over 3y, 16% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate: $660,702 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARD VIA VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $630,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $616,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $600,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetLIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY: $600,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetREGENESIS HEALTH CARE INC: $565,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER INC: $400,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $385,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Crescent Region: $375,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $325,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMental Illness Recovery Center Inc: $267,199 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHEALTH CARE PARTNERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $265,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $220,351 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER ASSOCIATION: $215,000 over 3y, 75% of budgetTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSouth Carolina Community Loan Fund: $170,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetChildSmiles Dental Inc: $165,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $163,100 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFACT FORWARD: $152,510 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC: $147,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetMIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $143,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $135,645 over 3y, 1.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

Central Carolina Comm…The Duke EndowmentSisters of Charity Fo…Spartanburg County Fo…The Leon Levine Found…Reach Out and Read IncDelta Dental of Misso…Duke Energy FoundationDominion Energy Chari…The Molina Healthcare…Children's Trust of S…New Morning
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC47× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation 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 113 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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