· Private foundation
Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of ELLISON S AND NOEL P MCKISSICK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $753k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $160,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL | $142,675 |
| YMCA EASLEY PICKENS POWDERSVILLE | $140,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTIONS | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY | $75,000 |
| UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION | $60,000 |
| ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BROOKGREEN GARDENS | $50,000 |
| DABO'S ALL IN TEAM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| JASMINE ROAD INC | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS SNOHOMISH COUNTY | $5,000 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| PROTEZ FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $406k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +143%
- AJANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $770k · revenue +469%
- UWUNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY6× · 2017–2025 · $550k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- UPUNITY PARK FUND - COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREENVILLEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- CFCLEMSON FOREVER FUNDone grant, 2023 · $50k
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +28%
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.
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
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…
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.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
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.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clemson University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 46 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 85 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 CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds DABO'S ALL IN TEAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds PICKENS COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds JASMINE ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOCHLAND PET LOVERS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS 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.
Open a dossier: St Francis Hospital Inc · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · AWT Family Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc
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 Ellison S and Noel P McKissick 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.
- Team River Runner Incorporated — 19% of income from government
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.