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Charles Timmons Foundation at a glance

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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.

$447k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$137k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MReligion$511kArts & Culture$190kHealth$185kHousing & Shelter$90kPhilanthropy$61kCommunity Improvement$58kFood & Nutrition$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $339k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC$3,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC$3,000
GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL$3,000
UPSTATE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$3,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC$3,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MY SISTERS HOUSE INC: $1k → 12%PARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC: $1k → 10%PARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC: $1k → 10%PARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC: $1k → 10%PARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC: $1k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $10k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $35k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $25k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $15k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $10k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $2k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $1k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $1k → 10%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

NY
MA
OH
CT
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Charles Timmons Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Charles Timmons Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$2.0M · 44 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
12

Total granted

$2.0M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+3%

Still filing today

89%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $232k · revenue +92%
  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $187k · revenue +3%
  • PP
    PENDLETON PLACE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • GC
    GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -67%
  • YO
    YMCA OF GREENVILLE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -7%
  • GS
    GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RISK MANAGEMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
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.

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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
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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3
Leadership South Carolina

To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.

Education
4
Greenville Symphony Association

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.

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8
Conestee Foundation Inc

Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.

Environment
9
Foundation for a Greater Greenwood County Inc

Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.

Philanthropy
10
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sc Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 74 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
38/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $440,641 · EducationUniversity of South Carolina Educational FoundationCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $231,950 · EducationCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOLFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $187,000 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYLEGACY EARLY COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationLEGACY EARLY COLLEGE+8 more: $114,500 · Education+8 moreCHRIST CHURCH: $431,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCHMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $61,000 · OtherMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDRENUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $58,334 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA BUSINESS…GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RISK MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $41,666 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RISK MANAGEM…+32 more: $167,934 · Other+32 moreSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $44,500 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: $40,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Arts & CultureST ANDREWS SOCIETY OF UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA HERITAGE FUND: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE THEATRE: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $17,000 · Arts & CulturePENDLETON PLACE INC: $89,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREENVILLE: $10,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesUNITED MINISTRIES: $76,000 · ReligionBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $26,000 · ReligionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $38,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $11,000 · HealthPIVOTPOINT WNC: $8,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · HealthCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER: $1,000 · Health
Education$1,074,091Other$759,934Arts & Culture$165,000Human Services$107,000Religion$102,000Philanthropy$38,500Health$26,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $440,641 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $231,950 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $187,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY EARLY COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC: $89,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $76,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $61,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $58,334 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $44,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RISK MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $41,666 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: $40,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $38,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT-BREVARD: $20,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $19,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $17,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $16,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGreenville Area Parkinsons Society: $11,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $11,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREWS SOCIETY OF UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA HERITAGE FUND: $10,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPIVOTPOINT WNC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUpstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina: $7,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGREENVILLE THEATRE: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJASMINE ROAD INC: $5,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA ARTS FOUNDATION 1989: $5,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSC NEW PLAY FESTIVAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPOINSETT CLUB FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGreenville Country Club Scholarship Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
  • 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 Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE 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.

Daniel-Mickel Foundat…The Jolley FoundationScsymmes FoundationJohn I Smith Charitie…Bill and Connie Timmo…Jean T and Heyward G …Dabo's All in Team Fo…Yeargin FoundationHayne Hipp FoundationScansource Charitable…Neill M Timmons Found…St Francis Hospital I…
Daniel-Mickel FoundationSC57.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 74 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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