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Daniel-Mickel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$779k
Granted FY2024still arriving
95
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$117k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$1.9MArts & Culture$1.2MHealth$870kHuman Services$315kEnvironment$288kPhilanthropy$288kHousing & Shelter$271kFood & Nutrition$268kOther$0
02FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k70 grants · $153k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $399k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $227k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Christ Church Episcopal School - CCES$117,000
The Museum Association (Gr Co Art Museum)$60,000
Unity Park (Community Fdn)$50,000
Peace Center for the Performing Arts$32,500
Roper Mountain Science Center Association$25,750
Upstate Warrior Solutions$25,000
Mill Village Farms$25,000
The Fine Arts Center$23,500
Julie Valentine Center$23,000
USC Medical School$22,000
Bon Secours St Francis Foundation$20,000
Safe Harbor$20,000
Metropolitan Arts Council$19,750
Conestee Foundation$17,130
Urban League$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Mill Village Ministries: $28k → 10%Mill Village Ministries: $5k → 10%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $4k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $53k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $28k → 10%SAFE HARBOR: $20k → 10%Safe Harbor: $20k → 10%Safe Harbor: $20k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $4k → 10%Center for Developmental Services: $3k → 10%Center for Developmental Services: $3k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $2k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 10%YMCA of Greenville: $1k → 10%YMCA of Greenville: $750 → 10%HISPANIC ALLIANCE: $16k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $250 → 10%HISPANIC ALLIANCE: $1k → 10%Hispanic Alliance: $1k → 10%HISPANIC ALLIANCE: $1k → 10%Hispanic Alliance: $1k → 10%HISPANIC ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%HISPANIC ALLIANCE: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
VA
NC
SC
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 124 repeat orgs$667k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

124 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
55

Total granted

$5.4M
$635k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+34%

Still filing today

65%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • WOFFORD COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $367k · revenue +52%
  • CA
    CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $139k · revenue +38%
  • RM
    ROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2017 · $57k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE - UNITY PARK
    one grant, 2022 · $54k
  • YC
    YMCA CAMP GREENVILLE
    one grant, 2018 · $52k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

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

3
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
4
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art

The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…

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 Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
7
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

8
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
9
Greenville Area Development Corporation

Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Upstate Sc Alliance Inc

To market the upstate sc region to attract business investment. to support economic development efforts of the upstate alliance investors. to build cohesive relationships among the region's private and public sectors.

Community Improvement
12
Greater Greenville Association of Realtors Inc

Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession

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 Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation. 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 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr17%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr11%39%35–55yr17%33%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/109
the rest of the field
14%
1,321/9,164

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.

04the grantee network

106 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 191 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/106
Grantees still filing
81/106
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WOFFORD COLLEGE — $366,617 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGEChrist Church Episcopal School - CCES — $303,500 · OtherChrist Church Episcopal School - CCESUSC MEDICAL SCHOOL — $272,000 · OtherUSC MEDICAL SCHOOLGREENVILLE HEALTH SYSTEM — $224,873 · OtherGREENVILLE HEALTH SYSTEMThe Museum Association (Gr Co Art Museum) — $176,750 · OtherROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION — $136,950 · Other+127 more — $2,333,476 · Other+127 moreCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC — $138,500 · EducationCAMPERDOWN ACA…CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $121,800 · EducationCHRIST CHURCH …GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC — $115,500 · EducationGREENVILLE TEC…PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY — $89,250 · EducationPUBLIC EDUCATI…FEED & SEED CO — $80,000 · EducationFEED & SEED COFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $64,500 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERS…LEGACY EARLY COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationLEGACY EARLY C…CONVERSE UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVE…CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $33,500 · Education+10 more — $58,970 · Education+10 moreSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $224,074 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLIN…PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION — $121,700 · Arts & CulturePEACE CENTER …GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL — $101,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE AR…THE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $84,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM AS…GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS — $59,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CE…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $41,225 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MU…CENTRE STAGE-SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $85,135 · Arts & Culture+10 morePENDLETON PLACE INC — $74,432 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREENVILLE — $62,700 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES — $36,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $32,797 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY — $22,000 · Human ServicesUPSTATE FOREVER — $109,000 · EnvironmentCONESTEE FOUNDATION INC — $46,130 · EnvironmentSustain South Carolina Intersection of Commerce and Conservation — $14,500 · EnvironmentTREES GREENVILLE — $13,875 · EnvironmentUPSTATE GREENWAYS AND TRAILS ALLIANCE — $12,500 · EnvironmentPALMETTO TRAIL — $10,000 · Environment+3 more — $13,842 · EnvironmentCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE — $100,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $55,535 · HealthGATEWAY HOUSE INC — $50,000 · Health+2 more — $12,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $148,450 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$3,814,166Education$797,020Arts & Culture$741,134Human Services$287,929Environment$219,847Health$217,535Philanthropy$150,950

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $366,617 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $224,074 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $148,450 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC — $138,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION — $136,950 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $125,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $121,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION — $121,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC — $115,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUPSTATE FOREVER — $109,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL — $101,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL — $98,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN — $95,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY — $89,250 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $84,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetFEED & SEED CO — $80,000 over 3y, 85% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC — $74,432 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITYWORKS INC — $66,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $64,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILD UPSTATE — $64,055 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE — $62,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS — $59,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $55,535 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES — $54,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $51,375 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLEGACY EARLY COLLEGE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCONESTEE FOUNDATION INC — $46,130 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJULIE VALENTINE CENTER — $44,905 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $41,225 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFOOTHILLS TRAIL CONSERVANCY INC — $40,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES — $36,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $33,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $32,797 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSLATER MARIETTA HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES INC — $30,208 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetJASMINE ROAD INC — $30,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION — $26,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLIVEWELL GREENVILLE — $25,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCENTRE STAGE-SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSUSTAINING WAY — $25,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION INC — $24,973 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc — $24,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budget
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 WOFFORD COLLEGE
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC
  • Who funds CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds ROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
  • Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER
  • Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL
  • Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL
  • Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN
  • Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds FEED & SEED CO
  • Who funds PENDLETON PLACE INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITYWORKS INC
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds REBUILD UPSTATE
  • Who funds YMCA OF GREENVILLE
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC
  • Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds LEGACY EARLY COLLEGE
  • Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE 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.

The Jolley FoundationNV98.2× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham 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 Daniel-Mickel 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc9% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
39report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Daniel-Mickel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Daniel-Mickel Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 191 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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