· Private foundation
Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,750 |
| MAIN STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| GREENWOOD HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,500 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES OF GREENWOOD | $2,000 |
| GREENWOOD CANCER FUND | $2,000 |
| PIEDMONT TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| FAITH HOME | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,500 |
| COALITION FOR CRITICAL HUMAN NEEDS | $1,500 |
| THE MUSEUM AND RAILROAD HISTORICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| PIEDMONT AGENCY ON AGING | $1,000 |
| CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME | $1,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT | $750 |
| GREENWOOD COMMUNITY THEATRE | $750 |
| NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND | $500 |
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 (FY17–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- FHFAITH HOME INC2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +164%
- CMConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +109%
- GCGREENWOOD COMMUNITY THEATRE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE LAKELANDSone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -5%
- TMTHE MUSEUM - GREENWOOD SCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +22%
- BRBLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +30%
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.
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
To inspire and encourage philanthropy which improves the lives of current and future residents of greenwood county.
The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.
Foundation to invest legacy gifts restricted to benefit greenwood pathway house inc (ein 45-0833715) located in greenwood, sc. pathway house's mission is to help homeless persons navigate a pathway to physical, financial, and social…
The organization's mission is the operation of hospice house.
The greenwood genetic center is a nonprofit institute centered on clinical genetic services, diagnostic laboratory testing, educational programs and resources, and research. with a focus on compassionate patient care and innovative…
To serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness by providing safe housing and assisting them in developing a long-term plan that leads to self-sufficiency.
The center is devoted to the rehabilitation and release of orphaned and injured wildlife. the center also provides outreach programs focused on rehabilitation and humane solutions to human-wildlife conflicts.
To feed people in need regardless of the circumstances
To provide transportation to those in need.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwood Community Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Freedom and Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 FAITH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Greenwood Cancer Fund ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LAKELANDS ↗
- Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENWOOD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM AND HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM - GREENWOOD SC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD PERFORMING ARTS INC SANDERS ↗
- Who funds BEYOND ABUSE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE DEPARTMENT ↗
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: Countybank Foundation · Davis Family Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Greenwood County Community Foundation Inc · The Self Foundation · The Barnabus Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood 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.