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C G Fuller Foundation at a glance

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C G Fuller Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$181k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$697kHuman Services$148kArts & Culture$146kCrime & Legal$57kReligion$38kHealth$22kHousing & Shelter$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARNWELL COUNTY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOC$30,000
BOYS FARM INC$20,000
WOFFORD COLLEGE$17,500
EPWORTH CHILDRENS' HOME$15,000
THE CIRCLE THEATRE INC$15,000
DICKERSON CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$15,000
RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,500
BARNWELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA - COLUMBIA$5,000
SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE$5,000
TURNING POINT OF SOUTH CAROLINA$5,000
CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$5,000
MERCY HOUSE$5,000
GREENVILLE THEATRE$5,000
TAYLORS' FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC$5,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 18%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 18%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 18%MERCY HOUSE: $5k → 8%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 18%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 36 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
14

Total granted

$1.1M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+155%

Still filing today

53%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • WOFFORD COLLEGE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $238k · revenue +49%
  • EC
    EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME
    6× · 2018–2025 · $63k · revenue +182%
  • BF
    Boys Farm Inc
    7× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND SOUTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA LAW ENFORCEMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • EF
    EASTSIDE FAMILY YMCA
    one grant, 2020 · $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
Greenville College

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.

Education
2
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
3
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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4
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
5
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
6
Spartanburg Methodist College

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…

Education
7
University of the South

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…

Education
8
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
9
Greensboro College

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.

Education
10
King University

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…

Education
11
Florida Southern College

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…

Education
12
The University of Charleston Inc

Educate each student for a life of productive work, enlightened living, and community involvement.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Farm Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 56 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOFFORD COLLEGE: $238,125 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGECLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $115,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $97,500 · OtherCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTONBoys Farm Inc: $60,000 · OtherBoys Farm IncUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA-COLUMBIA: $41,250 · OtherBARNWELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $38,025 · OtherBARNWELL COUNTY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL: $38,000 · OtherBARNWELL COUNTY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOC: $30,000 · Other+27 more: $177,500 · Other+27 moreCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $47,500 · EducationCHARLESTON SO…Richland County Public Library: $38,500 · EducationRichland Coun…FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $21,250 · EducationFURMAN UNIVER…Friends and Foundation of Richland Library: $10,000 · EducationFriends and F…ANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationANDERSON UNIV…COKER UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $63,000 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHORNWELL: $4,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $19,000 · Arts & CultureEdventure Inc: $12,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDICKERSON CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $34,000 · Crime & LegalNew Destiny Center Inc: $2,500 · Crime & LegalTAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $13,000 · HealthWILD HEARTS EQUINE THERAPY CENTER: $2,000 · HealthHomeless No More Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Turning Point of South Carolina Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterEMMANUEL'S HAMMER INC: $4,000 · Philanthropy
Other$835,400Education$134,750Human Services$76,000Arts & Culture$41,000Crime & Legal$36,500Health$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Philanthropy$4,000

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 budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $238,125 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $63,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBoys Farm Inc: $60,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $47,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRichland County Public Library: $38,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDICKERSON CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $34,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $21,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $19,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEdventure Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFriends and Foundation of Richland Library: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES: $10,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRICHLAND LIBRARY FRIENDS: $10,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetGREENVILLE THEATRE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHomeless No More Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Turning Point of South Carolina Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOKER UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHORNWELL: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL'S HAMMER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Destiny Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWILD HEARTS EQUINE THERAPY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 PALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RICHLAND LIBRARY FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds GREENVILLE THEATRE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Sisters of Charity Fo…Lipscomb Family Found…Dominion Energy Chari…Publix Super Markets …John I Smith Charitie…United Way of the Mid…Spartanburg County Fo…South Carolina Christ…Edward B Timmons Jr C…Junior League of Colu…Michael J Mungo Found…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC27.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 C G Fuller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C G Fuller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 56 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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