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Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2018
31
Grants FY2018
31
Organizations funded FY2018
45%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$500
Largest grant, FY2018
$5,750
Organizations funded a year
22 to 31
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
4
Total assets, FY2018
$563k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 45% of the organizations Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201831$38k45%
FY201722$58kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Religion$54kAnimals$9kHealth$8kHuman Services$6kArts & Culture$5kCivil Rights$4kEducation$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFaith Home Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Lakelands: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwood Community Theatre Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Agency on Aging Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArts Council of Greenwood County Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGreenwood Pathway House Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Museum - Greenwood Sc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Trust of South Carolina: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice and Palliative Care of the Piedmont Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwood Performing Arts Inc Sanders: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBeyond Abuse: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics South Carolina: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Countybank FoundationSC24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood

How much does Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood give?
Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood reported 31 grants totaling $37,500 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Religion (56%), Animals (9%), Health (8%).
Who are Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Faith Home Inc ($3k), Greenwood Cancer Fund ($2k), United Way of the Lakelands ($2k).
Does Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Countybank Foundation, Davis Family Foundation Inc, Central Carolina Community Foundation.
Where is Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood based?
Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood is based in SC.

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 36 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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