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Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood at a glance

· Private foundation

Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2018
31
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2018 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$563k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$5,750
MAIN STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
GREENWOOD HUMANE SOCIETY$3,500
FAITH HOME$2,000
PIEDMONT TECHNICAL COLLEGE$2,000
UNITED MINISTRIES OF GREENWOOD$2,000
GREENWOOD CANCER FUND$2,000
COALITION FOR CRITICAL HUMAN NEEDS$1,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,500
CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME$1,000
PIEDMONT AGENCY ON AGING$1,000
THE MUSEUM AND RAILROAD HISTORICAL CENTER$1,000
GREENWOOD COMMUNITY THEATRE$750
ANGEL FLIGHT$750
HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE PIEDMONT$500
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 (FY17–18, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILDRENS TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $500 → 16%CHILDRENS TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $500 → 16%PIEDMONT AGENCY ON AGING: $1k → 18%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 18%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME: $500 → 18%PIEDMONT AGENCY ON AGING: $250 → 18%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$82k · 17 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$82k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+23%

Still filing today

53%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • FH
    FAITH HOME INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +164%
  • GC
    GREENWOOD COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +11%
  • CM
    Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE LAKELANDS
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -5%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM - GREENWOOD SC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +23%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +30%
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.

1
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
2
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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3
Greenwood County Community Foundation Inc

To inspire and encourage philanthropy which improves the lives of current and future residents of greenwood county.

Community Improvement
4
Food Bank 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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Greenwood Pathway House Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
6
Hospice House of Greenville

The organization's mission is the operation of hospice house.

Human Services
7
Greenwood Genetic Center Inc

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…

Health
8
The Greenville Community Shelters

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

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.

Animals
10
Greenwood Soup Kitchen Ministry Inc

To feed people in need regardless of the circumstances

—
11
Greenwood County Council On Aging

To provide transportation to those in need.

Human Services
12
Greenville Center for Creative Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwood Community Theatre Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $45,750 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHGREENWOOD HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,500 · OtherGREENWOOD HUMANE SOCIETYMAIN STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5,500 · OtherMAIN STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCHFAITH HOME INC: $3,000 · Other+21 more: $20,750 · Other+21 moreGREENWOOD COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF GREENWOOD COUNTY INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM - GREENWOOD SC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWOOD PERFORMING ARTS INC SANDERS: $500 · Arts & CultureConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries: $1,500 · Human ServicesPIEDMONT AGENCY ON AGING INC: $1,250 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $1,000 · Human ServicesGreenwood Cancer Fund: $2,000 · PhilanthropyGREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterFREEDOM AND HOPE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationNORTHWEST VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE DEPARTMENT: $250 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$83,500Arts & Culture$4,000Human Services$3,750Philanthropy$2,000Housing & Shelter$1,000Education$1,000Public Safety & Disaster$250

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

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
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.

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 FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Central Carolina Comm…Duke Energy FoundationGreenwood County Comm…The Self FoundationThe Barnabus FundNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cy Thomason Foundation of Greenwood. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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 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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