· Private foundation
Charles Timmons 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $339k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $137,000 |
| LEGACY EARLY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $52,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO | $50,000 |
| AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT-BREVARD | $16,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SC NEW PLAY FESTIVAL INC | $5,000 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| PIVOTPOINT WNC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $3,500 |
| UPSTATE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC | $3,000 |
| GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL | $3,000 |
| ST ANDREWS SOCIETY OF UPPER S CAROLINA HERITAGE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Charles Timmons Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 17 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- CCCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $232k · revenue +92%
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $187k · revenue +3%
- PPPENDLETON PLACE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- GCGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -67%
- YOYMCA OF GREENVILLEone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -7%
- GSGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RISK MANAGEMENTone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.
The greenville symphony is dedicated to providing educational and cultural opportunities for the citizens of greenville and surrounding communities through the presentation of live orchestral music.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
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…
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sc Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Law Enforcement Chaplaincy for South Carolina. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 74 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 University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEGACY EARLY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PENDLETON PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RISK MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT-BREVARD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC ↗
- Who funds Greenville Area Parkinsons Society ↗
- Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS SOCIETY OF UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA HERITAGE FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds PIVOTPOINT WNC ↗
- Who funds Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds JASMINE ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation 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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Neill M Timmons Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc
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 Charles Timmons 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.