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Edward B Timmons Jr Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Edward B Timmons Jr Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$141k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$421kAnimals$203kHuman Services$124kArts & Culture$29kCrime & Legal$25kHealth$5kReligion$5k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$35,127
HUMANE SOCIETY$35,127
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$35,127
DICKERSON CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$10,000
PALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN'S SHELTER$10,000
SISTERCARE INC$10,000
HOPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$5,127
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%DICKERSON CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE: $37k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $37k → 11%DICKERSON CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE: $36k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $36k → 11%DICKERSON CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY: $35k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 11%THE COURAGE CENTER: $5k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE: $32k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $32k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE: $31k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $31k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE: $31k → 16%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $31k → 11%HOPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5k → 16%RICHLAND LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%EDVENTURE INC: $5k → 16%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$742k · 7 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$742k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+40%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $203k · revenue +49%
  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $203k · revenue +43%
  • SI
    SISTERCARE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $79k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • FA
    Friends and Foundation of Richland Library
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +24%
  • PP
    PALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN'S
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • TC
    THE COURAGE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +119%
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
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
2
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
3
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
4
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
5
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.

Education
6
Richland County Public Library

Basic library services including circulation of books and periodicals, informational services and educational programs benefitting the residents of richland county and surrounding area.

Education
7
South Carolina Council On Economic Education

Sc economics is the only sc non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to improving economic education and financial literacy by preparing teachers and students to be active, successful, and prosperous members of our global economy.

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8
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn

To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.

Human Services
9
Children's Place Inc

To protect, heal and strengthen children and families from the impact of abuse, neglect, and adverse experiences in their lives through education, treatment, and prevention services.

—
10
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
11
The Children's Place Inc

Provide mental health services to promote resiliency, wellness and positive developmental outcomes through prevention, treatment, education and family support for children under the age of 9 who have experienced abuse, neglect and other…

Crime & Legal
12
The Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc

Susie's Place promotes the prevention, justice and healing of child victims of abuse and violence while maintaining the comfort and safety of the child as the first priority.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dickerson Childrens Advocacy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends and Foundation of Richland Library. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $202,942 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $202,942 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITY+3 more: $20,127 · EducationHUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE: $167,815 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY FOR THESISTERCARE INC: $78,690 · OtherSISTERCARE INCHUMANE SOCIETY: $35,127 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETYPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES: $35,000 · OtherPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES+1 more: $10,000 · OtherEdventure Inc: $29,125 · Arts & CultureDICKERSON CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalTHE COURAGE CENTER: $5,000 · Health
Education$426,011Other$326,632Arts & Culture$29,125Crime & Legal$25,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $202,942 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $202,942 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERCARE INC: $78,690 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES: $35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEdventure Inc: $29,125 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDICKERSON CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFriends and Foundation of Richland Library: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHope Christian Academy: $5,127 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE COURAGE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEZEKIEL MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Central Carolina Comm…Lipscomb Family Found…Dominion Energy Chari…C G Fuller FoundationSisters of Charity Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · C G Fuller Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Edward B Timmons Jr Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward B Timmons Jr Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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