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Canal Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Furman University - Timmons Arena Renovations | $3,833,333 |
| Charleston Day School | $50,000 |
| United Way of Greenville County | $50,000 |
| Grace Church Cathedral | $25,000 |
| Wofford College co Nayef H Samhat | $21,667 |
| Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church | $15,000 |
| Philip Simmons Middle School PTSA | $15,000 |
| Kind of the Upstate | $15,000 |
| Metropolitan Arts Council | $15,000 |
| Philip Simmons Elementary School PTA | $15,000 |
| Greenville Symphony Association | $12,500 |
| Harbor Historical Association of Georgetown | $10,000 |
| United Ministries | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of your 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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
- MAMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +82%
- GSGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +26%
- PCPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- GTGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -28%
- PHPrisma Healthgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +203%
- GGATEWAYone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
The greenville center for creative arts exists to enrich the cultural fabric of the communities we serve by providing a nurturing environment for art-education, appreciation and enjoyment, and by establishing a lasting legacy in the visual…
To be a significant regional theatre and a leading arts institution which enhances the cultural landscape of upstate sc; to create a unique theatrical experience that ignites the imagination, lifts the spirits, and informs the patron of…
A non profit organization for greenville county pta , to provide an excellent experience within their community and families to join one another.
The mission of the museum is to save, share, and celebrate greenwood history. to that end, the board and staff of the museum are charged to administer, operate and maintain a nonprofit museum in the professional and fiscally responsible…
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.
Vgsc is organized to foster improved business conditions for the tourism and convention industry in the upstate of sc with the vision of becoming one of the most visited travel destinations in the southeast.
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
Promote upstate development. 2024 goals included increasing educational attainment for adults aged 25-64, drive entrepreneurial ecosystem growth, deliver 21st century talent and workforce, and inform and influence decisions with data.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harbor Historical Association of Georgetown. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Philip Simmons Elementary PTA ↗
- Who funds KIND OF THE UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF GEORGETOWN ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · The Maddrey 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 Canal Charitable 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.
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