· Private foundation
C G Fuller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARNWELL COUNTY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOC | $30,000 |
| BOYS FARM INC | $20,000 |
| WOFFORD COLLEGE | $17,500 |
| EPWORTH CHILDRENS' HOME | $15,000 |
| DICKERSON CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| THE CIRCLE THEATRE INC | $15,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,500 |
| BARNWELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $5,000 |
| MERCY HOUSE | $5,000 |
| GREENVILLE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| TAYLORS' FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA - COLUMBIA | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
WOFFORD COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $238k · revenue +49%- ECEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME6× · 2018–2025 · $63k · revenue +182%
- BFBoys Farm Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA LAW ENFORCEMENTone grant, 2021 · $5k
- AFASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND SOUTH CAROLINAone grant, 2023 · $5k
- EFEASTSIDE FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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.
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.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
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.
We prepare students in our christian academic community to excel as thoughtful, resourceful, and responsible citizens with a passion for serving god, the church, and the world. we accomplish this through excellent teaching, high…
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
Educate each student for a life of productive work, enlightened living, and community involvement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mercy House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 56 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 WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Boys Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Richland County Public Library ↗
- Who funds DICKERSON CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds TAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Edventure Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends and Foundation of Richland Library ↗
- Who funds RICHLAND LIBRARY FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds The Turning Point of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds COKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THORNWELL ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL'S HAMMER INC ↗
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 · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · John I Smith Charities Inc · United Way of the Midlands · Spartanburg County Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Edward B Timmons Jr Charitable Trust · Junior League of Columbia Inc · Michael J Mungo 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 C G Fuller 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.
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.