· Private foundation
Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $351k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $2,000,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GREENVILLE COUNTY | $180,333 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY | $175,000 |
| NAPLES FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE | $100,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE - GREENVILLE | $100,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - KROC CENTER | $65,333 |
| HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK | $62,000 |
| MEYER CENTER | $60,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $60,000 |
| A CHILD'S HAVEN | $60,000 |
| GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR | $60,000 |
| NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $60,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $647k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 90% of Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
60 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k 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
- TNTREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $12M · revenue +23%
- HFHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $905k · revenue +173%
- MCMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN5× · 2020–2024 · $276k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- BSBON SECOURS ST FRANCIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $73k
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue 0%- COCHURCH OF THE NAZARENE INCone grant, 2021 · $23k
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.
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.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The healthwise mission is to help people make better health decisions.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
Tandem health sc is a comprehensive primary healthcare practice dedicated to building a healthy community and improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of each person served.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Child's Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trees Greenville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
54 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. 54 of the 91 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 TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TREES GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Scsymmes Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · John I Smith Charities Inc · Prisma Health-Upstate
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 Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner 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.
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.