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Falatok Foundation

Charitable and philanthropic endeavors in support of and in conjunction with the Spartanburg county foundation.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$225kHealth$200kHuman Services$135kEducation$90kInternational$50kEnvironment$40kFood & Nutrition$20k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Spartanburg County Foundation$130,000
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation$20,000
The Citadel Foundation$10,000
Clemson University Foundation$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $5k → 10%Spartanburg County Foundation: $130k → 15%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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$310k · 5 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$310k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • SR
    Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +58%
  • THE CITADEL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +143%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • SA
    SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +52%
  • SM
    SAM Movement 2030 Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
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
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
2
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
3
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
4
Hub City Roots

The hub city farmers' market is a nonprofit community organization that aims to increase supply, demand, and access to healthy, local foods in spartanburg, south carolina.

Food & Nutrition
5
Spartanburg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
6
South Carolina Research Authority

Fuel south carolina's innovation economy by accelerating technology enabled growth in research, academia, entrepreneurship and industry.

Science & Tech
7
South Carolina Childrens Fund

To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.

Education
8
Partners for Active Living

Mission statement: partners for active living transforms spartanburg county into a vibrant, healthy, connected community where we live and grow. form 990, part iii, line 1, description of organization mission: partners for active living…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Rebuilding Together Spartanburg Inc

Repair/rehabilitate homes of disadvantaged homeowners in the upstate of sc through rebuilding days as well as special projects with various community groups.

Human Services
10
Scbio Foundation

By focusing on the mission to enhance the development and growth of south carolina's life sciences industry ecosystem and by strengthening the state's workforce, education, innovation, and research infracstructure, the foundation works to…

Science & Tech
11
Board of Control for Southern Regional Education

The board of control for southern regional education shall be devoted to the task of assisting states, institutions and agencies concerned with higher education in their efforts to advance knowledge and to improve the social and economic…

Education
12
Spartanburg Community College Foundation Inc

To develop and administer programs organized exclusively to receive and hold by bequest, gift, or purchase any property and to manage, invest, and use the property for scientific, educational, and charitable purposes for the advancement of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Citadel Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $170,000 · HealthSpartanburg Regional Healt…HINDS' FEET FARM INC: $10,000 · HealthHINDS' FEET FARM INCSpartanburg County Foundation: $155,000 · PhilanthropySpartanburg County Foun…GOFORTH RECOVERY: $130,000 · Human ServicesGOFORTH RECOVERYUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $60,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF TH…SAM Movement 2030 Fund: $30,000 · OtherSAM Movement 203…SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherSPARTANBURG DAY …SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $30,000 · EducationSPARTANBURG AC…THE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationTHE CITADEL FO…CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVER…CLEVELAND OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCLEVELAND OPPO…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 · ReligionTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionHATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE IN: $10,000 · Environment
Health$180,000Philanthropy$155,000Human Services$135,000Other$110,000Education$100,000Religion$50,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Environment$10,000

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 budgetSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $170,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $155,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGOFORTH RECOVERY: $130,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE IN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCLEVELAND OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHINDS' FEET FARM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Spartanburg County Fo…Arkwright FoundationBarnet FoundationMary Black Foundation…Milliken & Company Ch…South Carolina Christ…Anna M Black Charitab…Ivey Family FoundationBristle Cone Pine Fou…Black & Phillips Foun…Spartanburg Regional …J M Smith Foundation
Spartanburg County FoundationSC26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Barnet Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Ivey Family Foundation · Bristle Cone Pine Foundation 009266-000 · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · J M Smith 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 Falatok Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Falatok Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Falatok Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Falatok 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 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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